Aug 31, 2018 — Mt. Yale is one of many 14ers in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness, and there are a couple of standard approaches. The more heavily traveled, starting out from the Denny Creek Trailhead, was closed, so I took this slightly more difficult route from the Avalanche Trailhead. It starts off by following the Colorado Trail, with views overlooking Rainbow Lake, before heading up a forested slope to the saddle just east of Mt. Yale. From here, follow a social trail up the ridgeline to Mt. Yale's summit. you get nice views of Mt. Harvard and Mt. Columbia to the north, and Mt. Princeton to the south.
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