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| umbra alta | Route Climbed: Little Bear/Blanca Ridge Date Climbed: August 2003  | |
| Climbed as traverse-enchainment with Little Bear and Ellingwood Point. This full traverse with descent of Ellingwood's South Ridge was the way to go. Sick exposure and constant 3rd and 4th class all day. | |
| Posted Jun 22, 2005 2:37 pm | ||
| km_donovan | Route Climbed: Nortwest Face III Date Climbed: September 1, 2000 | |
| My climbing partner said “One down 53 to go.” I took him literally and am on my way to completing the 14’ers. | |
| Posted Jun 6, 2005 7:00 am | ||
| hhsilleck | Route Climbed: West Face Date Climbed: May 29, 2005 | |
| Perfect conditions all the way from Crater Lakes up to the ridge - about 1500 feet of uninterrupted easy to moderate snow. Tons of fun. | |
| Posted Jun 2, 2005 2:56 am | ||
| bechtt | Route Climbed: Como Lake Date Climbed: Aug 95 | |
| Nice hike in -- great boulder climb up | |
| Posted Mar 12, 2005 2:10 pm | ||
| bakcast | Route Climbed: Standard Date Climbed: July 2000 | |
| Spectacular mountain but quite frustrating to see the four-wheelers heading into the high-alpine beyond Como Lake road. Traversed to Ellingwood later in the day. | |
| Posted Jan 5, 2005 7:39 pm | ||
| ripper333 | Route Climbed: como lake trailhead Date Climbed: may 1998 july 2004 | |
| 2004 caught in some bad weather. headed back to camp waited out the storm. busted back up about 4pm at full tilt. summited and ran back to camp before dark. 1998- alot of snow. very tiring because of all the postholing. | ||
| Posted Oct 24, 2004 3:35 pm | ||
| WildmanDallas | Route Climbed: Como Lake Trail Date Climbed: July 31, 2004 | |
| I started in the scrub just above the desert floor at 1:30am hiking by the light of the full moon (very cool). Went up and did Blanca and back in one long day, tired but happy. Hey, it's good to be 50! | |
| Posted Sep 6, 2004 3:25 am | ||
| jwclimbs | Route Climbed: Little Bear to Blanca Ridge Date Climbed: August 21, 2004 | |
| Excellent adventure! The ridge is a "Must-Do" classic for anyone who craves exposure. **Be in good climbing shape, and well prepared for the long ridge. During my traverse (2hrs), one party of two and a roped party of 3 had to exit the ridge under siege of a fierce hail storm. I passed them at the 1/3 point and reached Blanca by the time they were 50%. I reached the lakes before the hail began. Their slow travel and underestimation cost them a dangerous descent. They were fortunate to reach the lakes without injury (or worse). | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2004 11:36 am | ||
| Ken Dammen | Route Climbed: Como Lake Trailhead Date Climbed: July 23, 2003 | |
| Larry Byrne and I summited at 0907. We backpacked up to above Como Lake and bivied the night before and set out to summit 0500. Fantastic views nice hike/climb. | |
| Posted Aug 22, 2004 1:27 pm | ||
| cagedalpinist | Route Climbed: Standard Date Climbed: 12 July 2004 | |
| Hope to return in Sept. and go for the Little Bear - Blanca ridge! Beautiful weather. | |
| Posted Aug 18, 2004 1:09 am | ||
| Jim Clarke | Route Climbed: Via Little Bear Traverse Date Climbed: 7/15/04 | |
| Excellent high peak traverse...perhaps as close as we can get to an Alps experience... | |
| Posted Jul 22, 2004 11:14 pm | ||
| Collin | Route Climbed: lake como route Date Climbed: august 10, 2003 | |
| Bilford and I did it in one day starting a little before midnight the previous day. we ended up getting done around 1:30 pm. We were pretty tired. | ||
| Posted Jun 27, 2004 1:52 am | ||
| Calhoun | Route Climbed: Como Lake Date Climbed: June 12, 2004 | |
| My 2 sons and I just returned from climbing Blanca. They are only 7 and 10 yrs old so this was a big accomplishment. The weather was great, though a little cold and windy. We did it in two days. We camped the first night between Como and Blue Lake. We made it to the top the next day no problem! Michael Calhoun | ||
| Posted Jun 15, 2004 9:12 am | ||
| xskier77 | Route Climbed: Traverse from Little Bear Date Climbed: June 5, 2004 | |
| The traverse from Little Bear turned out to be one of the best routes I've done to date. Loads of exposure and fun climbing. This was my second time on the summit of Blanca, the first being via the Gash Ridge. We brought gear to camp on the summit. My first time spending the night on top of a 14er and it was an incredible experience. | |
| Posted Jun 7, 2004 3:17 am | ||
| mmoerk | Route Climbed: Northwest Face / Standard Route Date Climbed: September 21, 2003 | |
| I tried this peak in Summer 2002 but only made it to about 13,900'. So I was determined to reach the summit. Made it this time, on a beautiful fall day, after camping above Lake Como. Had some snow to contend with above treeline, and found myself on a somewhat gnarly steep snow section after wrongly choosing to leave the ridge line. Got back to the ridge and stayed there to the summit. This is a great mountain. The hike back down to the car is very, very long. I started way down at 8,000'. | |
| Posted May 24, 2004 10:47 am | ||
| Larry V | Route Climbed: northwest face Date Climbed: August 3, 2003 | |
| Climbed with my 80-year old father, who made it! See trip report. This was my third time to summit Blanca Peak. | |
| Posted Feb 8, 2004 7:29 pm | ||
| xskier77 | Route Climbed: Gash Ridge Date Climbed: August 10, 2003 | |
| Incredible ridge climb!!!! Gerry Roach rates this climb as a 5.0 - 5.2 climb and I would say that is right on the money. We did the entire ridge without a rope. Gary, Stephanie and Myself. After summiting we though we could grab Ellingwood as well so we started down toward the saddle at which point we looked over our route descriptions again and thought the decent off of Ellingwood back to the Heurfano trail head would be too technical of a descent. So we decided to head down from the saddle which turned out to be extremely technical downclimbing. Thankfully we had a rope and rapelled one section and hand rapelled another section. We were all very relieved to get down this safely. Stephanie has a nasty scar to remind her of this day. | |
| Posted Feb 2, 2004 12:35 am | ||
| jdjordan45 | Route Climbed: Standard Route Date Climbed: July 1998 | |
| My 1st fourteener and a climb I had wanted to do for a long time. | |
| Posted Dec 5, 2003 9:45 pm | ||
| summiteer16 | Route Climbed: standard Blanca/Ellingwood Traverse Date Climbed: May 2002 | |
| good climb. much easier than litte bear the day before. Summit provided a great view. Traversed and summitted ellingwood as well. | |
| Posted Dec 2, 2003 8:53 am | ||
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