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| Mike Mc | Crossfire Couloir / North Ridge  Date Climbed: Aug 13, 2006 | |
| My dad and I climbed Ellingwood from South Zapata Lake. I've named this route the "crossfire couloir." Check out the trip report: "Caught in the Crossfire: An Uncharted Route up Ellingwood Point." | |
| Posted Aug 27, 2006 10:43 pm | ||
| Brian Kalet | From Blanca (ascent), North Ridge (descent) Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2006 | |
| From Blanca (Gash Ridge). 8 hours roundtrip from Lily Lake Trailhead. Trip Report | |
| Posted Jul 22, 2006 11:02 pm | ||
| ktiffany22 | Return to E. Point Date Climbed: Jun 24, 2006 | |
| After summiting Blanca May 13th, weather prevented us from climbing E.Point... so we came back (and yucko do I hate Como Lake road!). This mountain looks like awful loose scree (and who likes that?!)... but it turned out not to be too bad! We enjoyed it- and met some friendly hikers along the way. Good stuff! | |
| Posted Jul 3, 2006 7:19 am | ||
| shanahan96 | southwest ridge in winter Date Climbed: Mar 6, 2006 | |
| calm, winter day....and thank goodness. the ridge was fun, not tough at all until the base of the summit block where i was forced to pull myself across the knife edge of snow with my ice axe. 50 feet in two minutes! #6 of top-100 in calendar winter. jamie | |
| Posted Jun 30, 2006 11:15 pm | ||
| Ryan Kowalski | SW Ridge, an evening affair Date Climbed: Jun 10, 2006 | |
| After the LB-Blanca traverse I headed back to camp to nap. Woke up at 3PM to great weather, so I decided to go for it. A great route and some of the best summit views I've seen. What a great place, I'd love to come back and climb this one again. Icing on an already delicious cake. | |
| Posted Jun 14, 2006 5:18 pm | ||
| jratk | ellingwood blanca traverse Date Climbed: May 24, 2006 | |
| 4 wheeled for a while up the road, hiked in and did ellingwood and blanca. Great weather, set up a bivy and climbed little bear the next day via nw face. | |
| Posted Jun 13, 2006 3:38 am | ||
| Kiefer Thomas | SW Face Date Climbed: May 25, 2006 | |
| From Blanca, I thought this was going to be a pain in the ass talus scramble, I was wrong. Relatively good climbers trail most of the way up on good (sometimes loose) rock. The traverse over from Blanca just below the ridge was actually more exciting than doing Blanca itself! Ideal weather though. | |
| Posted May 27, 2006 11:55 am | ||
| Mountain Jim | From Como Lake | |
| Glad this peak is added to the list of 14er's. | |
| Posted Mar 3, 2006 5:03 am | ||
| sprosseda | Route Climbed: SW classic ridge Date Climbed: September 1999 | |
| Really neat 1,000 foot class 2/3 ridgeline to summit. Traversed over to Blanca's summit also. Great views of northern Sangre's and Blanca's N face. Awesome yellow fall colors. Very scenic area. | |
| Posted Jan 25, 2006 5:23 pm | ||
| Old Ickabod | Route Climbed: Blanca to Ellingwood Traverse Date Climbed: 9/30/05 | |
| What an awesome one-day solo ascent of Blanca and Ellingwood. Parked about one mile past the trailhead and began hiking at 7am. Summitted Blanca at 11:45am, the last 100 feet was a little more time consuming because of fresh ice and snow. Stayed about 150 to 200 feet below the ridge while traversing to Ellingwood. No snow or ice on Ellingwood. Some route finding issues on the way down Ellingwood. Hiked out and returned to the truck by 6pm. I love fourteeners in the Fall! | |
| Posted Oct 4, 2005 3:56 pm | ||
| Bob Bolton | Route Climbed: Blanca/Ellingwood traverse Date Climbed: September 20, 2005 | |
| Nice traverse from Blanca. | |
| Posted Sep 30, 2005 10:12 pm | ||
| Bob Sihler | Route Climbed: from Blanca Date Climbed: July 15, 2004 | |
| Easy Class 3 with one fun, slightly tricky notch to cross if you stick to or very near the ridge | |
| Posted Sep 30, 2005 10:04 pm | ||
| bc44caesar | Route Climbed: Southwest Ridge Date Climbed: 27 Aug 2005 | |
| Hiked up to Lake Como from 8800', set up camp, and then continued on to the Southwest Ridge. I took a fairly direct path from the unnamed lake to the low point of the ridge. The ridge was exciting - it looks in numerous places to be harder than 3rd class - but there is always an easy way around any difficulties. One of the best 3rd class routes I've done! | |
| Posted Aug 29, 2005 10:36 am | ||
| RC Cola | Route Climbed: Southwest Ridge Date Climbed: August 14, 2005 | |
| Great climb!!! I recommend this route over the South Face for any climber! | |
| Posted Aug 17, 2005 1:53 am | ||
| doumall | Route Climbed: SW Ridge Date Climbed: August 6th, 2005 | |
| Climb this mountain on its own via the SW ridge. One of the best class 3 routes on Colorado's 14ers. | |
| Posted Aug 8, 2005 1:53 pm | ||
| doumall | Route Climbed: Traverse via Blanca Date Climbed: July, 11 2004 | |
| 32nd 14er! | |
| Posted Jul 13, 2005 3:14 pm | ||
| umbra alta | Route Climbed: Blanca connecting ridge/SE Face Date Climbed: August 2003 | |
| Climbed this as the third peak in Little Bear/Blanca/Ellingwood enchainment. Stuck to the ridge 90 percent of the way to avoid miserable talus slope. Seemed logical after doing Little Bear/Blanca ridge. Also descended Ellingwood's south ridge for continued 3rd and 4th class climbing. A banner day. | |
| Posted Jun 22, 2005 2:56 pm | ||
| km_donovan | Route Climbed: South Face III Date Climbed: September 1, 2000 | |
| Descended from Blanca and traversed to the route. A cool sunny day but back in Texas it was 110 deg. I was glad to be on Ellingwood. | |
| Posted Jun 8, 2005 7:13 am | ||
| hhsilleck | Route Climbed: Traverse from Blanca Date Climbed: May 29, 2005 | |
| This route gets an early sunhit ... snow was softening up by the time I made it onto the SW face. Stuck to the ridge - some easy and fun scrambling. Several fun glissades on the way back down to Lake Como. | |
| Posted Jun 2, 2005 1:23 am | ||
| bakcast | Route Climbed: Traverse from Blanca Date Climbed: July 2000 | |
| Nice relaxing traverse after Blanca - has anyone actually stayed on the ridge for this traverse instead of heading accross the face? | |
| Posted Jan 5, 2005 7:41 pm | ||
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