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| seth@LOKI | 2nd Fourteener, 5x  Date Climbed: Sep 29, 2006 | |
| 2nd fourteener. I have been back five times and love it and Connundrum everytime. Skiing/boarding is always fun adn lasts in to the summer! | |
| Posted Jul 26, 2006 6:49 pm | ||
| Eric Holle | Route Climbed: NE ridge Date Climbed: July 16, 2006 | |
| Great day in the Montezuma Basin. Ascent of the North Ridge, with Kris and Madaline. Continued to the summit of Conundrum, and glissade descent of the coulior. | |
| Posted Jul 19, 2006 2:58 am | ||
| F Bomb | NE Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 2, 2006 | |
| Good fun, parked at 10,2 in the Saturn, couldn't get accross the creek. | |
| Posted Jul 5, 2006 3:45 pm | ||
| Woodie Hopper | South Ridge/NE Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 2, 2006 | |
| Nice easy climb starting with Conundrum on the way up via the South Ridge route. I descended using the NE Ridge and had a great glissade down below the NE ridge. I drove to ~11,000 feet and parked at the junction with the Pearl Pass road. | |
| Posted Jul 5, 2006 5:25 am | ||
| crzyjt | NW ridge, snow Date Climbed: Jun 24, 2006 | |
| Got this one on my second attempt. Parked at 12,500 and climbed to the saddle via non standard detour with my skis. Snow was continuous to saddle. Dumped pack, ran up castle, then, back at the saddle, grabbed my pack, headed up Conundrum and skied the Conundrum Couloir. Partner ate it in the choke and tumbled 300 feet. Very scary, but he was alright. | |
| Posted Jun 24, 2006 11:37 pm | ||
| roozers42 | Route climbed: NE Ridge Date Climbed: Sep 10, 2005 | |
| Continued to Conundrum, descent of NW ridge on scree for a couple hundred feet and then the snowfield. | |
| Posted May 15, 2006 4:09 pm | ||
| km_donovan | Route Climbed: Northeast Ridge via North Buttress varation Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2003 | |
| I drove my 4x4 all the way to the parking area 12,800 feet, got an early start before the holiday hordes arrived Part of a 10 day 18 14,000 ft. summit solo climbing trip. | |
| Posted Apr 23, 2006 1:21 pm | ||
| Scott | Winter conditions Date Climbed: Apr 15, 2006 | |
| Climbed with Brock. April 14: We climbed up to 11,430 feet and camped. Stormy all day, and we saw on small avalanche. April 15th: It was 9F in the morning and we climbed Castle via the Northeast Ridge and descended the north face couloir. Climb was mostly easy, but parts of the ridge traverse had some treacherous sugar snow, that was impossible to get a bite with the ice axe. Very warm day, and the snow was soft, so we arrived back at the car at 9 pm, a long day. | |
| Posted Apr 17, 2006 2:32 pm | ||
| TM | good spot | |
| Nice hike, great skiing all around. Made some nice turns from up high. | |
| Posted Apr 10, 2006 5:57 am | ||
| Mountain Jim | North Face Couloir | |
| No snow in the couloir, just lots of very loose rock. Descended via NE Ridge. | |
| Posted Mar 20, 2006 3:01 am | ||
| altitude14er | Northwest Ridge via Castle Creek Trailhead Date Climbed: Jun 25, 2005 | |
| I climbed this with my friends Dave and Mark (aka "asphazell"). We all brought cramp-ons for the snow portion on the ridge but didn't need them. The snow was very packed by the 25th this year. We didn't get to spend long on the summit because storm clouds were building quick - as they often do in the Elk Range! We found an awesome spot to glissade down off of the Northeast Face...worked well but I cut myself with my ice axe..not a good thing to do! | |
| Posted Mar 17, 2006 4:44 pm | ||
| markhyams | NE Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 11, 1994 | |
| My second 14er, and the one that started the obsession. Five years later, I had climbed them all. | |
| Posted Mar 5, 2006 5:46 pm | ||
| foreverwild | good day | |
| Great climb with perfect snow from 2WD, one of my favorite climbs. | |
| Posted Feb 21, 2006 1:02 am | ||
| Kiefer Thomas | Route Climbed: NE ridge Date Climbed: August 2003 | |
| I drove all the way to the mine for this one. The weather was pretty strange. No problem going up but at the summit, the clouds moved in quick, it got fairly dark but it was as quiet and still at the top as I've ever witnessed. Very strange. It downpoured as soon as i got back to the truck. Perfect timing. | |
| Posted Jan 28, 2006 1:20 am | ||
| chicagotransplant | Route Climbed: Northeast Ridge Date Climbed: September 11, 2005 | |
| The rock was surprisingly solid on this route | |
| Posted Jan 9, 2006 8:07 pm | ||
| Lost Creek Farms | Date Climbed: 7/26/05 | |
| Blake my 9 year old was sick from altitude sickness so we were 300 ft short of the summit. | |
| Posted Nov 28, 2005 9:20 pm | ||
| climbhighnow | Route Climbed: Cumberland Basin to West Ridge Date Climbed: Sept. 2005 | |
| Wow! the climb up was awesom with lots of good, fun, class 3 exposed climbing. we ended up descending some gnarly, snow filled couloir and hiking up pearl pass, back to cum. basin. a Very long day; 14hrs. hiking/climbing and a 1.5 hour hitch hike. ps. Lots of scary, loose rock!! bring a helmet | |
| Posted Oct 28, 2005 12:32 pm | ||
| Hobbesgirl | Route Climbed: Northeast Ridge Date Climbed: July 30, 2004 | |
| Very entertaining climb! Some intellegent college kids (yeah, they were my age) decided to find their way down the mountain by sliding down on trash bags. Horrible idea. One broke his femur and he had to be taken to the hospital by helicopter. Moral of the story: find a better way off the mountain :) | |
| Posted Oct 21, 2005 1:46 pm | ||
| Bob Sihler | Route Climbed: standard/SE ridge Date Climbed: July 17, 2004 | |
| Fun snow climb and glissade when I did it-- unbelievable views of the Elks' fourteeners-- fun road if your vehicle can take two or three pretty nasty spots (if it can, you start at 12,800') | |
| Posted Sep 30, 2005 10:14 pm | ||
| jwproulx | Route Climbed: Up N.E. Ridge, Down S.E. Ridge Date Climbed: 19 August 2005 | |
| Biked from the Castle Creek road up to the highest trees in Montezuma basin. Fun hike and lots of glissading. The bike ride was gruelling, but a real blast coming down through the spectacular forest. | |
| Posted Sep 6, 2005 6:22 pm | ||
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