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| shanrickv | Standard Route  Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2008 | |
| What a beautiful and challenging mountain! Originally planned to do the traverse from Crestone Peak, but high winds pushed us do the east to west gulley on the Needle. Climbed with long time climbing partner, Alan. Went on to climb Humbolt Peak that evening in beautiful Sangre de Cristo weather. | |
| Posted Sep 7, 2008 5:10 pm | ||
| Asphazell | Standard route Date Climbed: Aug 30, 2008 | |
| I never thought I would climb this peak when I first saw it on Roach's 14ers book. I have come a long way since then. The rock is outstanding and exhilerating! Excellent holds made this a pure joy! I'll be back for the Arete! | |
| Posted Sep 2, 2008 7:42 pm | ||
| alpspitze | Standard Route Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2008 | |
| This is one that I have been looking forward to for a long time. Had the mountain to myself. Started at 6am and summited at 8am. | |
| Posted Aug 13, 2008 12:59 pm | ||
| Clark_Griswold | Solo on the Needle Date Climbed: Jul 25, 2008 | |
| Due to a schedule conflict I was not able to join my expected partner (the guy above me)for the Needle on the 24th. I packed in to South Colony on the 24th and did a search for a partner. One fellow told me that he thought I could do it alone and that it wasn't that difficult. I'd say he was right. Other than the traverse between the two gullies its a pretty straight forward climb. I loved this Peak. | |
| Posted Aug 11, 2008 9:57 pm | ||
| myrone | Crestone Needle via Upper S. Colony TH Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2008 | |
| Started up at 6:25AM. Route finding isn't the easiest on this peak, but prevailed with help from friends I met along the way; reached summit at 10:25. Rising clouds socked-in a good portion of the views from the summit. Started back down at 10:45 and back to the TH at 2:08PM as it started to rain. My 41st 14'er...sweet!! | |
| Posted Jul 19, 2008 9:58 am | ||
| Sierra Ledge Rat | 1990: S Face | |
| With Duane "Buzz" Inderdahl | |
| Posted Jul 18, 2008 12:32 am | ||
| astrobassman | Beautiful Mountain | |
| I will return and try the traverse and/or a different route some day. | |
| Posted Mar 20, 2008 8:06 pm | ||
| MountainHikerCO | Third Time Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2007 | |
| This was my third time climbing the Needle. We went the standard route via Broken Hand Pass from South Colony Lakes. | |
| Posted Feb 12, 2008 9:06 pm | ||
| MountainHikerCO | Standard Route Date Climbed: Aug 17, 1991 | |
| This was my first climb of the Needle. We went the standard route via Broken Hand Pass from South Colony Lakes. | |
| Posted Feb 12, 2008 9:04 pm | ||
| tomlauren | Crestone Traverse Date Climbed: Aug 31, 2007 | |
| From camp at Cottonwood Creek, climbed the South Face of Crestone Peak, performed the traverse to Crestone Needle, then descended the Needle's South Face back to camp. This was the final of the Four Great Fourteener Traverses for me. I thought that route-finding on this traverse was the most difficult of the four, especially near the Black Gendarme. I stayed on the summit for only 30 seconds due to a nasty storm cloud hovering directly overhead. | |
| Posted Feb 3, 2008 7:46 am | ||
| AltitudeSickness | Route Climbed: South Face: East Gully, off route Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2006 | |
| Started out as an early morning hike up to Broken Hand Pass for a bite of breakfast at sunrise because the rest of my crew decided not to climb that day. One member of my crew joined me about an hour after the sun came up and we decided to make a summit attempt. We pushed up the East Gully and were off route because the difficulty exceeded the trip reports assessment of it being class 3 & 4. We continued on up for several hundred feet on some loose cobblestone. I pulled off a piece twice during the climb. Quite scary for me. I nearly decided to call it off. After gathering my wits, pushed on to the summit. Was so glad I did. What a wonderful climb. Even though we were off route we both enjoyed it a great deal. The mountain goats made us feel bad by how easy they made the climb look. Fantastic day, elated at the end. | |
| Posted Dec 20, 2007 12:03 am | ||
| cavufool | Peak to Needle Traverse Date Climbed: Aug 30, 2007 | |
| Such a fun route. We ascended the Red Couloir after waiting 3 days for the weather to be favorable. The last part of climbing the Needle was a blast and required some difficult route finding because visibility was down to ~20 feet. An absolutely stellar mountain. | |
| Posted Dec 14, 2007 6:40 pm | ||
| MattGreene | Traverse | |
| I started before first light so I could complete the traverse to the Needle and be off the mountain by early afternoon. Fortunately I was successful and back in camp before noon, because wicked thunderstorms rolled in and unleased rain and electricity from 12 to 2. I know of at least one climbing party that would've been in the thick of things if they'd stuck to their original schedule. I thought of them all afternoon, but still don't know if they turned around or pressed through the storm. | ||
| Posted Dec 1, 2007 9:16 pm | ||
| spannring29 | # 1 Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2007 | |
| Favorite mountain to date. The route finding and scrambling were a blast. | |
| Posted Oct 21, 2007 12:22 pm | ||
| chicagotransplant | Peak to Needle Date Climbed: Sep 16, 2007 | |
| Traversed Peak to Needle, lots of fun scrambling on the traverse, especially right below the summit. Descended the standard route, but withouth switching gullies, just stayed in the 'east gully', some nice 4th class in there! | |
| Posted Sep 17, 2007 10:14 am | ||
| dr_gonz | needle | |
| did it from the traverse. wow. seriously... wow. | |
| Posted Sep 4, 2007 4:13 pm | ||
| Natasha | Standard Route Date Climbed: Aug 26, 2007 | |
| Beautiful day for an incredible mountain. Loved the class 3 scrambling and climbing. Can't wait to try Crestone Peak next! | |
| Posted Aug 27, 2007 11:28 pm | ||
| matt81 | South Face Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2007 | |
| Continued on to the top via the east gully. | |
| Posted Aug 26, 2007 5:44 pm | ||
| lizrdboy | South Face Route Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2007 | |
| We had to get up at 0500 to do it, but we managed to summit before the rain storms hit. Nice route. Solid rock and easy class 3 for the most part. Great climb! | |
| Posted Aug 2, 2007 9:19 pm | ||
| 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 | ||
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