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| Kapelmuur | NE Ridge from main TH, w/Conundrum  Date Climbed: Sep 11, 2011 | |
| Did this from the very start of the road on a cold and mostly overcast morning with some light snow falling. Winter is coming fast! | |
| Posted Sep 12, 2011 12:25 am | ||
| vbeckman74 | Driver Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2005 | |
| You can drive fairly high on this one. Reached the summit in less than two hours with Alex. A good intro 14er. One of the best summit views, and near perfect conditions. | |
| Posted Aug 4, 2011 11:01 am | ||
| belexes | Northeast Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 31, 2011 | |
| I climbed Castle with my fellow CMC BMS student, Marco. This was my first time in the Elks. We camped below site 3 along the road and hiked all the way from there. We started around 4:45AM and arrived at the summit at 9:30. We had planned to do Conundrum, but the clouds were already rolling in, and the glissade back into the basin looked pretty dodgy, so we had to be content with Castle only. We we able to hitch a ride from the uppermost parking lot back to our campsite. I'll be back sometime to do Conundrum, when snow conditions are better. | |
| Posted Aug 1, 2011 2:19 pm | ||
| renogurt | Castle Moat Date Climbed: Jun 16, 2011 | |
| Did the ol' Castle Moat to conundrum traverse in ideal conditions. It was very sloppy snow in the lower parts of the hike. | |
| Posted Jun 22, 2011 2:57 pm | ||
| StephanieLynn | Nice day Date Climbed: Jun 11, 2011 | |
| An easy hike over from Conundrum. | |
| Posted Jun 12, 2011 12:49 am | ||
| REM | From Montezuma Basin Date Climbed: Aug 30, 1981 | |
| Climbed with my Father | |
| Posted Jun 6, 2011 4:27 pm | ||
| Up2zmtns | Conundrum Couloir to Castle Peak Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2010 | |
| fun, with tyler, our first couloir | ||
| Posted Mar 19, 2011 1:48 pm | ||
| altitude14er | Route Climbed: Conundrum Traverse Date Climbed: Aug 14, 2010 | |
| After a nasty fall on Conundrum I reached this summit on a bloody, swollen knee cap! | |
| Posted Jan 14, 2011 11:57 pm | ||
| centrifuge | with castle the other big C Date Climbed: Sep 12, 2010 | |
| amazing september day | |
| Posted Jan 13, 2011 12:43 am | ||
| thatnissanguy | Castle and Conundrum Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2010 | |
| Traversed from Conundrum. Climbed Conundrum over 5th class slabs from a notch in the North Ridge. | |
| Posted Dec 18, 2010 9:58 pm | ||
| Montana Matt | Castle and Conundrum Date Climbed: Jul 2, 2009 | |
| Gorgeous day with a fun glissade! Mike Priddy joined me. | |
| Posted Dec 11, 2010 1:04 pm | ||
| Legpowered | second 14er | |
| Castle and Conundrum were my second and third fourteeners | |
| Posted Dec 6, 2010 10:15 pm | ||
| rockymountaindiva | 2nd try Date Climbed: Oct 2, 2010 | |
| Got blown off about 300' from the top only a month earlier. Glad to make it on the 2nd attempt. | |
| Posted Oct 11, 2010 12:25 am | ||
| strudolyubov | Castle/Conundrum combo Date Climbed: Sep 26, 2010 | |
| Summited Castle via Northeast Ridge. Continued on to Conundrum, then returned back the same way. Nice hiking/scrambling with a little bit of snow, great weather, gorgeous views! | |
| Posted Sep 27, 2010 11:58 am | ||
| byates | Up East and to Conundrum Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2010 | |
| A bit of new snow, went up the Northeast ridge, traversed to Conundrum and down the saddle, I was surprised by the depth and size of the crevases in the snow field going all the way into the tarn. | |
| Posted Sep 1, 2010 6:47 pm | ||
| BigRob | Standard Date Climbed: Jul 29, 2010 | |
| Climbed with Katie in moderate clouds. Nice summit and my first time in the Elks | |
| Posted Aug 25, 2010 3:24 pm | ||
| JustinShapiro | Along with Conundrum Date Climbed: Aug 15, 2010 | |
| Climbed along with Conundrum Peak. In my opinion, these two peaks were the easiest 14ers I've climbed so far. I wasn't even sore after wards, it was great and the weather was fantastic. The hardest part about this climb was descending the ice field below the Castle-Conundrum saddle. It was very slippery with lots of falling rock. | |
| Posted Aug 17, 2010 5:21 am | ||
| rdmc | Awesome day at the Castle! :0) Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2010 | |
| Couldn't have asked for a better day. Nice to get up in the altitudes again, where the air is crisp, cool, clean, and thin! The slide down was great fun too. :0) | |
| Posted Jul 30, 2010 12:23 pm | ||
| kunz82414 | Yup Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2010 | |
| Good summer day, enjoyed the scramble and the view. | |
| Posted Jul 26, 2010 1:07 am | ||
| seano | NE ridge Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2010 | |
| Snow made this much more pleasant, with 2 glissades on the way down. Trip report | |
| Posted Jun 21, 2010 3:50 pm | ||
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