Porcupine Gulch

Trip

Hiking – Porcupine Gulch

7 mile lollipop loop in/around Porcupine Gulch. OFF TRAIL!

  • Sat, Oct 11, 2025
  • Gore Range
  • Hiking
  • Adults
  • Moderate
  • Mileage: 7.0 mi
  • Elevation Gain: 2,050 ft
  • High Point Elevation: 12,040 ft
  • Pace: 1.5 mph including stops

We will hike up Porcupine Gulch, turn right at a split in the drainage, then ascend over a ridge, and come down in the valley to the west, making a lollipop loop.

By signing up for this trip you agree to have your e-mail address shared with other participants and photos of you shared in Facebook or other media.  If you decide to cancel, you agree to do so yourself using the CMC website, and to not contact the leader unless the trip is already closed. If you have to cancel after the trip is closed for registration, please TEXT the leader at 303-888-0559 by 7:00 am the morning of the trip.

If you have questions or concerns, please contact the leader at least 5 days in advance of the trip start date.

If you have any known medical conditions that may manifest themselves during this activity, please notify the leader via e-mail prior to the trip.  If you have known exposure to a COVID-positive case within 5 days of this trip, please do not come. Do not come if you are sick. 

Bring the usual: 10 Essentials 

Please bring money for ride sharing and put your boots on your feet or in a bag/container.

NO PETS please 

With that in mind, 

- If you know you won't make this trip, please cancel off the roster as soon as you know. You can use the cancel button on the CMC site under "Members", "my trips", then select the trip and select "cancel reservation". If you have to cancel the morning of the trip, please TEXT the leader at 

303-888-0559 by 7 am the morning of the trip.

Feel free to arrange carpools from the front range.  Suggest exit 259 Wooly Mammoth section BB across from gas station.

Meet 7:30 in the parking lot near JJs Chinese, in the spaces closest to highway 6.

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Consider bringing some type of traction devices in case of snow.

There may be some slippery bridge/stream crossings.

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