Little Lakes Peak Rock Climbing

In the midst of the Rock Creek valley, between Box Lake, Chickenfoot Lake, Morgan Pass, and Mt Morgan. Great views of the higher peaks from Bear Creek Spire to Mt Mills, and down to many pretty lakes. Rock is mostly granite talus, with some more solid climbable granite on sections of some ridges (esp NNW + NW). Often recommended to do along a traverse to (higher) Mt Morgan.

No trail to the summit. Nearest maintained trail is the Morgan Pass hiking trail from the Mosquito Flats trailhead parking (GPS lat long ~ N37.4352 W118.7470) - (altitude 10240ft / 3122m).

Easiest way to the top is usually said to be hiking/scrambling up the South face from the trail at Morgan Pass.

NNW ridge and NE ridge have lots of class 5 climbing sections, though perhaps many of them can be avoided, so some guidebooks and reports suggest that their difficulty could be kept within class 4.

Two guidebooks say that the SW ridge has some class 5 sections in its lower part. One climber reported he avoided this by starting on the W face and joining the SW ridge higher up.

Map - see routes on Map ...

• NNW Ridge Direct approach + climb
• NE Ridge approach / descent
• NE Ridge climb - (which can link to SW Ridge of Mt Morgan climb)
• W Face to upper SW Ridge approach + climb