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| telemarkdude | Route up East Drainage  Date Climbed: May 31, 1996 | |
| Lots of social trails going up through scree and loose gravel/sand to the north (hiker's right) of the drainage. Stay left of the creek all the way up the drainage to the small cliff with a waterfall. Here the trail turns right and follows the base of the cliff band skirting around it. I did a 3rd/4th class variation up through the broken blocks a little right of center on the cliff band that was much more interesting than the steep and slippery scree trail. The rest of the route is on much better trail. | |
| Posted Nov 14, 2012 7:31 pm | ||
| knotis23 | My Favorite Mountain | |
| If I had a dollar for every time I hiked this one i'd have close to $15. Always a different route up and down. Love it. | |
| Posted Nov 13, 2012 12:21 pm | ||
| PapaBanucci | Stayed the Trail Date Climbed: Aug 21, 2011 | |
| ...or at least a trail, nearly all the way up. | |
| Posted Aug 21, 2011 3:21 pm | ||
| REM | No "Standard" Route | |
| Third time up managed to get "off trail" going both up and down with Dave. B. | |
| Posted Jun 25, 2011 10:17 pm | ||
| Incliner | Favorite Springs Hike | |
| Done it many times, never the same route. | |
| Posted Sep 28, 2009 4:43 pm | ||
| DWRich | From the NW Ridge Date Climbed: Aug 9, 2009 | |
| Hiked with my friend Tracy. We probably parked in the wrong place, as we ended up hiking 2.5 miles before we even got to the canyon. Seems like we should've been able to park near the Air Academy High School and cut at least 2 miles off each way. Ended up taking the Falcon Trail to Trail 713 up to the water tank. Took the ridge all the way to the top. Have read lots of trip reports where people had a hard time finding the airplane wreckage, but we found it easily taking this route. Lots of cairns along the way to the top, but as long as you skirt the ridge, you can't get lost. Found it amazing that on a warm, beautiful Sunday morning, we didn't run across one other person. Round trip was 8.4 miles. Beautiful canyon, beautiful peak, beautiful day. | ||
| Posted Aug 11, 2009 7:21 pm | ||
| ktiffany22 | A slog Date Climbed: Nov 27, 2007 | |
| For whatever reason this extreme cardio workout kicked my butt! The bummer part is that due to an approaching lightening storm we didn't get to spend any time on the summit :-( | |
| Posted Jul 3, 2009 6:12 pm | ||
| VermontMike | Open Space Route | |
| Scrambled up/down the boulder fields instead of dealing with the scree. A nice hike! Guess I'll have to do UN9500' next time too. | |
| Posted Jun 7, 2009 3:23 pm | ||
| cftbq | last one of the day Date Climbed: Mar 24, 2009 | |
| After doing three other unranked peaks nearby, I made the short climb up to this summit from the saddle, before heading back down the steep trail to the BPOS trailhead. Actually my third climb of this peak. | |
| Posted Mar 26, 2009 12:21 am | ||
| shknbke | via North Ridge/Trail 713 Date Climbed: Jan 10, 2009 | |
| I decided to locate the plane wreckage along the north ridge. I parked at the West Monument Creek TH (Trail 713) below the gate to the filtration plant. There is a decent trail up the north ridge that I was able to follow with snow. Coordinates of the wreckage are 38.96352N and 104.90998W at an elevation of 8580' just below the ridge on the east side. It's a steep grunt to the summit from there. Followed the trail down to the saddle on the south side an continued over to soft ranked 9500D to the s.w. Descended the standard route down to 7900' and followed the trail and an academy jeep road to complete a nice loop. Had to bushwack a bit at the end to stay east of the filtration plant. Excellent loop hike! | |
| Posted Jan 11, 2009 1:12 am | ||
| Jeremy Hakes | Steep. Loose. Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2008 | |
| Steep. From the AFA, north ridge route (see topo). 9.7 miles RT, 4000' gain, 4 hours. I also recommend hitting UN9500, a soft ranked peak just to the SW of Blodgett. | |
| Posted Sep 3, 2008 9:54 am | ||
| kavak | From Ormes Peak Date Climbed: Apr 23, 1989 | |
| My son and I were on this adventure to climb Ormes and Blodgett. The trip was an uneventful ridge hike northeast to Blodgett. The 9500 ridge point was more interesting than Blodgett but of course the views of the plains is always a treat in the Rampart Range. | |
| Posted Jul 21, 2008 11:00 am | ||
| Brad76 | Bluebird Day on Blodgett Date Climbed: Apr 20, 2008 | |
| The wife and I headed up to Blodgett Peak on a beautiful April day. The trail was snow free even though there were plenty of snow drifts still lingering in the valley. The views on top are the best from any Colorado Springs peak that we have seen to date. | |
| Posted Apr 21, 2008 7:00 pm | ||
| shknbke | From open space Date Climbed: Mar 14, 2008 | |
| First calendar winter ascent and 7th overall. Took advantage of the time change and did it after work. Topped out at 7:15pm with hokiejim and enjoyed the city lights for a few minutes before heading down the bobsled run. Went down the trail in the drainage instead of zigging across the face on the way down. Still took a couple wrong turns on the way up. 2nd most climbed peak in CO for me next to Pikes. Never gets old. | |
| Posted Mar 17, 2008 12:50 pm | ||
| ElliottDavis | From Open Space Date Climbed: Jan 26, 2008 | |
| Rather windy on the fire road but nicely sheltered from there to the summit ridge. No need for snowshoes. YakTrax/cleats/light crampons would be handy; trekking poles invaluable for balance on the mixture of packed snow, ice and loose gravel. A very fine outing indeed. =) | |
| Posted Feb 1, 2008 3:28 pm | ||
| Sheldon | awesome Date Climbed: Jan 2, 2008 | |
| awesome tough climb. Never gets old. | |
| Posted Jan 2, 2008 11:07 pm | ||
| Sheldon | Cold, cloudy Date Climbed: Dec 7, 2007 | |
| so the weather was really bad, the first day of our weekend snowstorm. The begining was really foggy but as i made my way up, i was above the fog. The last part with all the scree and boulders was really scary, one wrong step and i was sending huge boulders down the hill and i was afraid to start a landslide or break an ankle or something. Once i reached the summit i was looking over where the springs would be but were covered by the clouds. One wierd thing i noticed was that it was much warmer above the clouds than it was when i was down in the valley section. | |
| Posted Dec 7, 2007 11:42 pm | ||
| HokieJim | Baker Direct | |
| Summitted via the vb1 "Baker Direct" route through the boulder field. Made a quick tag of the summit and ran back down to get away from a lightning storm. | |
| Posted Nov 27, 2007 12:38 pm | ||
| RckyMtneer | Several times... Date Climbed: Dec 11, 2005 | |
| Summer, winter, always a nice view! | |
| Posted Aug 12, 2007 7:49 pm | ||
| ledavis23 | fun hike Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2006 | |
| Matt, you rock. | |
| Posted Jun 30, 2007 5:56 pm | ||
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