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| Darren9 | love the needle  | |
| Climbed during guides training in 1999. Has always been one of my most favorite CO 14ers. | |
| Posted Nov 7, 2009 1:33 am | ||
| VermontMike | Standard Route variation Date Climbed: Sep 19, 2009 | |
| Climbed up the east gully towards the summit via the dihedral. Great ramp exiting the east gully near the summit! Back down the west gully w/traverse to east gully. That rock is a lot of fun! | |
| Posted Sep 23, 2009 2:44 pm | ||
| ElliottDavis | Standard Route Date Climbed: Sep 10, 2009 | |
| So good. Thrilling.yhnnh "yhnnh" was typed by my cat. She likes to say her piece sometimes. | |
| Posted Sep 17, 2009 2:08 pm | ||
| heather14 | Ellingwood Arete Date Climbed: Sep 5, 2009 | |
| We did the direct start to the arete. Turned into an epic. | |
| Posted Sep 7, 2009 8:55 pm | ||
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| Alan Ellis | Re: Ellingwood Arete | |
| I'm interested in your "Epic." What happened? Thanks. AE | |
| Posted Mar 10, 2010 10:11 pm | ||
| seano | from Peak Date Climbed: Sep 4, 2009 | |
| Fun class 3 knobs. You drop down surprisingly far to start (13,700'?). | |
| Posted Sep 7, 2009 9:15 am | ||
| Ingman | via Ellingwood Arete Date Climbed: Aug 15, 2009 | |
| w/ B. Gibbs & C. Treiber Camp: 6:45am Summit: 10:40am Very high winds rejected our planned traverse to Crestone Peak. Descended the standard route. Ellingwood arete is amazing! | |
| Posted Aug 16, 2009 11:15 pm | ||
| RMdaytripsgrl | Love the Needle! Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2009 | |
| Standard route up from S. Colony Lakes camp w/Chad, made it in 3.0 hours flat - what a fun climb! Traversed to Peak. Did the East summit this time since we did the West summit last month. Descent of NW Couloir route. | |
| Posted Aug 14, 2009 11:44 am | ||
| strudolyubov | Standard Route Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2009 | |
| Climbed the Needle via standard route from South Colony Lakes. Ascended steeper east gully and descended via west gully route. There was still some water running in the middle of the east gully. Great weather, incredible views! | |
| Posted Aug 2, 2009 1:01 pm | ||
| pyerger | the needle Date Climbed: Jul 17, 2007 | |
| Climbed this a couple of times, great scramble. | |
| Posted Jul 30, 2009 3:12 pm | ||
| Alan Ellis | 2nd Time on the Arete Date Climbed: Jul 20, 2009 | |
| Lucky we had good weather. :) Thanks to Jackie, Andy, and Fabio for a great day. | |
| Posted Jul 29, 2009 7:20 am | ||
| mattpayne11 | Standard Route Date Climbed: Jul 17, 2009 | |
| Awesome mountain. Much easier than advertised. | |
| Posted Jul 28, 2009 1:50 am | ||
| cruzit | Arete via Ellingwood Ledges Date Climbed: Jul 20, 2009 | |
| Outstanding climbing, very airy, with beautiful views. I'm so gratefull to have the opportunity to climb it with my husband, Andy and Fabio. Thanks guys. | |
| Posted Jul 24, 2009 4:49 pm | ||
| RC Cola | great climb! Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2004 | |
| One of my all-time favorites! | |
| Posted Jul 13, 2009 3:27 pm | ||
| tobe945 | the arete Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2009 | |
| climbed w/Blumsky as his first 14er, my 9th? great climb but we got all the way up on ledges to the point where the face meets the arete, and in doing so passed the red knob. made for only about 3 technical pitches of climbing. got off-route on the downclimb and found some lower 5th downclimbing in one of the gullies. got down okay to find a marmot had chewed on my pack and had eaten by hat! | |
| Posted Jul 13, 2009 6:47 am | ||
| Liba Kopeckova | from South Colony | |
| via Broken Hand Pass. Done over Labor Day weekend, very crowded that day. My dog did jump better than a mountain goat. | |
| Posted Jul 8, 2009 4:10 am | ||
| Pablohoney | Ellingwood | |
| What a great climb, Ellingwood Arete with the traverse to Crestone Peak..This has to be one of the best areas of Colorado! | |
| Posted Mar 27, 2009 8:05 pm | ||
| SarahThompson | In all 4 seasons, 5x total Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2005 | |
| 7/16/05 - Climbed the standard route after backpacking from the 2WD TH and camping near South Colony Lakes. Dropped my camera and was able to rescue it but not the memory card :(. After fetching a new one at camp we capped off the day with an easy climb up Humboldt. 7/17/05 - Climbed the standard route again after climbing Crestone Peak so I could retake the pictures :) 5/28/06 - Classic traverse from Crestone Peak. Climbed down standard route and added on Broken Hand Peak before returning to camp along Cottonwood Creek. 2/21/09 - Winter ascent, standard route. Backpacked in along Cottonwood Creek. My most challening winter summit to date - quite an epic climb. Simulclimbed up the south couloirs, proper anchor/belay was necessary occasionally. Couloir crossover made for a spicy crux. Rapped/climbed down from 13,800 ft in the dark. 12/2/12 - Backpacked to South Colony Lakes, climbed Needle's standard route, and traversed to Crestone Peak. Very dry for December. Hope to get back sometime for Ellingwood Arete :) | |
| Posted Jan 6, 2009 6:35 pm | ||
| bmcnary1 | Rad | |
| Great break from work with friends | |
| Posted Nov 24, 2008 8:36 pm | ||
| Gahugafuga | S Face Date Climbed: Sep 14, 2008 | |
| Fun route. The crux traverse between gullies was saucy. But for my money, the N Ridge of Kit Carson is still the best non-technical climb in the Crestones. | |
| Posted Sep 14, 2008 11:36 pm | ||
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