Ridge scrambles in the Wasatch

Putting together a list of ridge scrambles in the Wasatch range.  i.e. South ridge of Superior.  Need to be in the  4th class, very low 5th class rating.   Thanks.  

West Slabs to Wildcat Ridge.  Twin Peaks to Superior(Triple Traverse). South Ridge Superior. Pfeif to Lone(Beat Out).   Stuarts and Standard Ridges in Big(5.6 Roped climbing).  Theres some other short sections here and there but those are the main ones.  Not many really. I think they are mostly detailed in Hiking the Wasatch by Veranth 

https://youtu.be/YkkRaIHfpj4

Looks like a fun little link up

North Ogden has so much ridge scrambling with Jump Off being the highlight. The school room has a couple as well/ 

Definitely should include Geurts Ridge on Olympus.  I like this waaay more than the West Slabs, but that's a personal preference.

The WURL  

I would disregard Cardiff Pass to the Supreme ski lift.   Not much scrambling in there.  But.....choose anything else on this map and you can can make your own scrambling dreams come true!

Notable sections:

1. Long day but, but Broads fork twin peaks to cardiff, heading east (bail back to the road here) is an amazing scrambling outing

2. Supreme ski lift over devils castle, heading west (bail back to the road here)

3. Paruvian trail up to little cloud lift, over American fork Twin peaks to White Baldy, heading west. (bail back to the road here)

4. Already mentioned but, The Beat Out, Red pine lake trail to Pfiefferhorn and all the way out to Lone Peak, exiting through Bells Canyon

Have fun and be safe up there.

With the WURL, I wouldn't recommend  descending Tanner gulch.  Sketchiest loose talas ever. 

I'll toss a few in (depending on your "low 5th class" definition):

Thunderbolt Ridge in Hogum
North Ridge of the Pfeif
Timp traverse
Lone to North Thunder or reverse (Hematoma Quad)
North Thunder from Coalpit#3
Reed and Benson Ridge (either direction)
Cardiac Ridge from Kessler
Kessler "north" ridge

Fun times.

Thank you all for your suggestions.  Some I know about, some I've done and some I'll never do........HA.   Now to get off the rear and get in gear.  Thanks again, good motivation .

Does cardiac ridge from Kessler go all the way to the Main LCC ridge? I was trying to figure that out at one point with Google maps and asking the wranglers on Facebook. Seemed to me at the time  that it does but it’s (obviously, maybe obviously) not as common as other ridges. Which is fine!  But I won’t go on Facebook anymore and have this fucking chronic knee thing that’s preventing me from even hiking to dog lake so I guess my past self is asking out of curiosity…  does it go?

(sorry for the rant I guess?) 

It goes for the most part.  theres a 5.6 section if you stay on the ridge proper about half way, then right before superior theres a big drop that needs to be circumnavigated. its around 9 hrs car to car at a casual pace. pretty fun if youve done all the others

You can solo Kamp's Ridge on Olympus hehe. Definitely on par with South Ridge Superior in terms of exposure.

One of the more involved Ridge routes I've done was definitely Thunderbolt Ridge, and Wildcat to Mount Olympus. If you take the Wildcat this way you can finish up by summiting Olympus and taking the standard hiking trail back to the valley floor.

Curious about the Coal pit 3 mention, would love more details, and just to be clear, not the ridge next to coal pit 1 per the below image?

Shakes: for the Coalpit #3 to North Thunder - it's more or less the ridge that runs east then south, from the top of Coalpit 3 or 4 to North Thunder. From the top of one of those gullys, head up the ridge to peak 10,491, and then continues up the ridge that splits Coalpit and Bells to North Thunder. I personally got spooked (solo) and bailed backward above the Coalpit cliffs, dropped into Bells, and rejoined the ridge to the summit after the difficulties. I know it's been done complete several times in the past. I would have appreciated a rope. Definitely not a classic with the bushwacking entrance and exit fees.

The photo below is from 10,491, looking south along the ridge to North Thunder. 

Jordan Wilson wrote:

North Ogden has so much ridge scrambling with Jump Off being the highlight. The school room has a couple as well/ 

Where's the location/beta/topo on Jump Off?

Nick Battaglia wrote:

Where's the location/beta/topo on Jump Off?

Some here: https://www.mountainproject.com/area/106524454/jump-off-canyon

And some here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K2-BrvQvtdDoauUC9Hfb5jz2csAWHufh/view

Far left (north) side of the Macabre Wall and the north buttress of the Mezzanines are also both low 5th class. Could also look at "Avoiding the Issue" on the Mezzanines south buttress.

Cool thanks dude!

I keep trying to push Standard Ridge higher and higher up Storm Mtn.  it definitely becomes less of a ridge and more of a…brushy scramble through some discontinuous stuff interspersed with amazing pieces of rock…but…if anyone wants to scratch themselves up a bit?   I’d like to see more traffic up high above the standard Standard Route.   

Bumping this to add some more as I had the same question:

Patty's Ridge (more of a ridge scramble than Steort's, a few ridges over from it)

Everest Ridge and Razorback Ridge up timp (mostly class 2/3 with a bit of 4? I've only done Everest, it only has a few class 4 moves)

Reservoir Ridge at Storm Mountain

Randy Vannurden wrote:

West Slabs to Wildcat Ridge.  Twin Peaks to Superior(Triple Traverse). South Ridge Superior. Pfeif to Lone(Beat Out).   Stuarts and Standard Ridges in Big(5.6 Roped climbing).  Theres some other short sections here and there but those are the main ones.  Not many really. I think they are mostly detailed in Hiking the Wasatch by Veranth