The Big Cottonwood watershed traverse was the 2nd to last one that I did and is one of the more fun routes in the Wasatch, combining some of the best parts of the WURL and all the shenanigans on Wildcat Ridge. I believe someone did this the year before so it's by no means a first, plus it's the Wasatch so I assume that nothing is ever a first.

In the spirit of the WURL and all the other watershed traverses, this one starts and ends at the edge of civilization. I did this back in 2019 a few weeks after summiting Mount Everest. While I was working my way along the south side, I ran into Carston Oliver who I believe was randomly doing the same thing but in reverse, so this is by no means a first. You could pretty easily make this into a loop if you wanted to starting in Memory Grove, however like I said before, none of the other watershed traverses are loops, so I figured this should be the same.

Out of all the Sasatch watershed traverses, this one is the easiest, and would be a good start if you were looking to do all of them. We started on the south end, heading up Perkins. There is a bit of schwacking, but over the years it's thinned out quite a bit and you could probably move pretty quick now. You hit a trail after the schwacking that takes you all the way over to lookout peak on the north side. After lookout there is a tiny bit of light route finding, but again it's probably thinned out over the years and it's pretty marginal.

The Podagristenpad, an 80 km long-distance route that follows in the footsteps of three early “adventure hikers” from 1843.