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| ledavis23 | Epic!  Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2007 | |
| Ascended via the Ellingwood's Ledges (standard route). Start time: 5am from the tent at the south lake. Peeked over at the direct start which ascends a right-facing corner- that way is definitly the way to go! Sheep were within 50' of us on the way up. Summitted at 1:30pm. Hit with full-on thunderstorm (lightening, hail, wind) on the descent of the hiking route at around 11,500'. Reached camp at 4pm. Warm sleeping bags were very welcoming! "Classic" + alpine= epic! | |
| Posted Jul 20, 2007 12:25 pm | ||
| Scott Rogers | Awesome Date Climbed: Jun 16, 2006 | |
| The climb was completely dry and one of the best experiences I have ever had. | |
| Posted Jul 11, 2007 10:13 pm | ||
| Old Ickabod | Great Climb! Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2007 | |
| After summitting Crestone Peak from Cottonwood Lake, Summitridge and I made our way up the Needle from the pass. Great weather, minimal snow, and the downclimbing was a breeze. | |
| Posted Jun 30, 2007 11:08 am | ||
| bernardhohman | Outstanding Standard Route Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2007 | |
| Old Ickabod and I enjoyed a great weather day as we bagged both Peak and Needle. | |
| Posted Jun 26, 2007 10:40 am | ||
| Eric Holle | South Couloir Date Climbed: Apr 30, 2007 | |
| Climbed the South Couloir with Tim and Ben. Such a sick route, amazing climb. Ben and I spent 12 days in the Sangres, and this was the best route we climbed the whole time! | |
| Posted May 9, 2007 11:40 pm | ||
| Timothy Pearl | South Date Climbed: Apr 30, 2007 | |
| With Eric Holle and Ben. From South Colony via Broken Hand Pass. This is such a gorgeous route up the south of the Needle. There should be mention of this as a spring "couloir" route... I'll post it with a little motivation. Anyone? | |
| Posted May 2, 2007 1:15 am | ||
| Flex | S Face & Ellingwood Ledges Jul/06 Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2006 | |
| 2 couples and our dog on the 4th of July up the S Face, then up the Ellingwood the next day with Jeff K for my 32nd B-day! | |
| Posted Jan 21, 2007 10:37 pm | ||
| boisedoc | Great one Date Climbed: Aug 18, 1991 | |
| Very enjoyable scrambling on firm rock make this one of the best 14ers | |
| Posted Dec 17, 2006 4:39 pm | ||
| BalletBoy | My Favorite 14'er Date Climbed: Aug 27, 2006 | |
| Rained and snowed the night before hiking to the summit. The nice conglomerate rock was covered in snow and ice forcing us to kick-in foot and toe holds. Warmed up upon descent which made it easier going. Great views of the Sand Dunes from the Summit. Search and rescue was out that day looking for a hiker from St. Louis that had disappeared several days before. Very interesting with all the helicopters around. | |
| Posted Nov 11, 2006 7:55 pm | ||
| Outdoorpartner | Too much exposure Date Climbed: Aug 10, 2006 | |
| I was solo and turned around due to too much exposure and a broken GPS. I'll try again with some method to lower my pack down upon the descent. | |
| Posted Oct 5, 2006 5:33 am | ||
| tjchino | South Face Date Climbed: Oct 2, 2005 | |
| Exciting climb with good friends. | |
| Posted Sep 11, 2006 7:57 pm | ||
| CO PUMA | Peak to Needle Traverse Date Climbed: Aug 20, 2006 | |
| This was a great climb. I loved the last class 4 pitch up to summit of the Needle. That rock was so solid and a blast to climb on. Most of our traverse was in super thick fog, so route finding was challenging but we made it over in under 3 hours from Crestone Peak. On our way down we met up with a SAR crew helping two 60 year old guys off a ledge above Cottonwood Lake. They had gotten stuck up there over night. Glad to hear they are ok though. | |
| Posted Sep 9, 2006 9:15 pm | ||
| ktiffany22 | A long fun day Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2006 | |
| As my 35th 14er overall, I'd say that the Needle ranks in as 1 of my top 2 favorites! What a fun-filled day of climbing! Had so much fun and finished so early in the day that we went over and hiked Humboldt as well! | |
| Posted Sep 3, 2006 6:01 am | ||
| rasgoat | luv scrambling? | |
| woke up b4 dawn made way up strong climbers trail by way of headlamp caught sunrise at broken hand pass. first to summit that day. met a nice lady at the summit. went home | |
| Posted Aug 6, 2006 10:10 pm | ||
| jratk | Ellingwood arete Date Climbed: Jul 26, 2006 | |
| My second time up the arete but the first was about 6 years ago and we had a hard time finding the start of the roped pitches. We finally got on route only to discover that we only climbed two pitches and had accidently free-soloed the first pitch. Good weather, outstanding climb. Major props to the crew who was building a trail on broken hand pass, they're doing a great job. | |
| Posted Jul 31, 2006 6:56 am | ||
| James C | Favorite 14er Date Climbed: Jul 29, 2006 | |
| Climbed the south face, and it felt great to reach the summit after my previous failure, this has to be my favorite 14er. It was cool to meet cftbq, my first summitpost encouncter. The weather was wierd, it was foggy pretty much the whole way, but there was no rain. Great Climb!!! | |
| Posted Jul 30, 2006 9:32 pm | ||
| cftbq | Standard South Face route Date Climbed: Jul 29, 2006 | |
| My first truly "technical" 14er, and #27 overall. Climbed with daughter Trish; also a first for her. Intermittent fog but no rain or t-storms; beautiful sunshine otherwise. A dynamite summit. | |
| Posted Jul 30, 2006 6:22 pm | ||
| seth@LOKI | One of the faves. solid Date Climbed: Jul 17, 1994 | |
| love it | |
| Posted Jul 26, 2006 7:18 pm | ||
| climbhighnow | Ellingwood Arete Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2006 | |
| kicks ass! the bottom of the direct (open book) start is fairly runout fyi; i led one 5.4 pitch w/1 placement before an anchor after whymping out on the first (very runout) pitch. also led my first 5.7 pitch; dry heaved because of it; off route somewhere below the main ledge. WOO HOO! | |
| Posted Jul 17, 2006 9:05 pm | ||
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