This loop runs along the main crest of the La Plata Mountains - the southernmost subrange of the San Juan Mountains in southwest Colorado. The route may be modified as long as all of the crest summits are reached including all of the 12ers and 13ers. Clockwise from the mouth of the canyon:
Parrot, Madden, Star, Gibbs, Burwell, Spiller, Babcock (middle summit is the high point), Moss, Lavender, Hesperus, Centennial, Sharkstooth, Diorite, Efendi, 11903, "Kennebec Peak", Cumberland, Snowstorm, Lewis, Baker, Silver, Deadwood