After finally navigating the perils of Forest Road 240 in my #Crosstrek, I reached Jennings Creek TH right before 6:00am. There was space for 2-3 vehicles as the TH page reports.

Eager to begin the hike, I tied my shoes and set out onto the trail. The trail sign mentioned many activities were closed, but hiking remained open. The trail was easy to follow for being abandoned and I made it to the tarn in ~20 minutes. I continued my way up through the valley, admiring all of the beautiful flowers and surrounding mountains. I reached the saddle without issue in about an hour and 20 minutes. My watch said I had gone about 2.2 miles from car to saddle.

I began the ascent up to Point 13,936 which was pretty easy going and route finding was not difficult. Without intentionally doing so, I ended up bypassing the summit of Point 13,936 by following some flat talus/pseudo trail to hiker's-right of Point 13,936's summit. I followed this pseudo trail without much difficulty and found it easier than what I would have guessed was required to go over the top of Point 13,936. I hovered around 13,800 and took this contour all the way to the final pitch up to Tabeguache. I summited Tabeguache right before 9:00am.

I took a 30 second break at Tab and went on my way to Shavano. It took about 35 minutes from Tab to Shavano and I found the hike to be enjoyable and the trail easy to follow. I saw several hikers on their way from Shavano to Tab, who all were quite a bit higher than I was and "off trail". While I don't think it really mattered, I found this information to be helpful on my own trip from Shavano back to Tab.

I reached the summit of Shavano just after 9:30am. I hung out for 20 minutes and enjoyed the views of Antero and other collegiate peaks.

The trip back to Tab was without issue. However, once I cleared Tab, finding my pseudo trail along contour 13,80 to avoid Point 13,936's summit was a touch more difficult than finding it on my way up/in. I ended up scrambling my way to the saddle with a few knee/shin bangers, making decent time. I was well aware of the advice to avoid descending too early into McCoy Creek, which was easy to do as none of those options seemed realistic or even a time saver. After getting to the saddle, I was home free, and I got back to my car in under an hour from the saddle.

Jennings Creek was a fun route for a straightforward mountain and I would recommend it to all who want to test their route findings or just practice it. The hardest part was the road in and out. 45 minutes for 3.8 miles of slow bumpy dirt road.