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| 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 | ||
| Ratballs | Route Climbed: A small fissure in the south face Date Climbed: 20 August, 2004 | |
| I had a fun night and day in the Lake Como basin, and climbed a somewhat obscure route on Ellingwood's south face: a small fissure to the east of the larger crease between the summit block and the southwest ridge (the one that most south face ascenders use). This one goes straight for the summit from the top of the talus slope just north of the lower Crater Lake. The storm at Lake Como the night before was atrocious. I'm surprised nobody was killed. Trip report here. | |
| Posted Sep 12, 2004 11:42 pm | ||
| cagedalpinist | Route Climbed: High traverse from Blanca Peak Date Climbed: 12 July 2004 | |
| Beautiful climb. | |
| Posted Aug 18, 2004 1:11 am | ||
| xskier77 | Route Climbed: Ridge traverse from Blanca Date Climbed: June 6th, 2004 | |
| Made the trek from Blanca right along the ridge crest. This made for some fun class 3 ridge climbing and one section even involved some class 4 moves. We made the summit of Ellingwood around 9:30am after spending the night on the summit of Blanca. | |
| Posted Jun 7, 2004 3:37 am | ||
| DaveC | Route Climbed: ne ridge Date Climbed: june 01 | |
| Had plans for little bear first, but weather caused a late start and ellingwood as a default. summited w/4 others with the same dilemma and plan. | |
| Posted May 20, 2004 9:37 pm | ||
| RyanS | Route Climbed: Southwest Ridge Date Climbed: October 12, 2002 | |
| What an awesome time to come to Como Lake! We didn't share this basin with *anyone* else all day. We tried out the SW ridge and loved it so much, we repeated it in 2003. A trip report is available here. | |
| Posted Apr 9, 2004 5:48 pm | ||
| Larry V | Route Climbed: High traverse from Blanca Peak Date Climbed: July 1998 | |
| Windy morning! Bagged Blanca, Ellingwood, and Little Bear in one day. | |
| Posted Apr 7, 2004 11:58 pm | ||
| JonBradford | Route Climbed: Traverse from Blanca Peak Date Climbed: September 16, 2001 | |
| Nice Mountain. I am suprised some people resisted recognizing it as a seperate summit from Blanca. My 10 month old puppy Sopris' second fourteener and fifth mountain. Raymond dog was along on this one as well. Jon | |
| Posted Dec 18, 2003 7:05 pm | ||
| summiteer16 | Route Climbed: traverse from Blanca Date Climbed: May 2002 | |
| Great, easy, fun traverse. Great view of the dunes and backside. Touch the stick for good luck! Have Fun! Upon desent, don't vear too far right. the gully is not somewhere you want to end up. | |
| Posted Dec 2, 2003 8:55 am | ||
| Grant | Route Climbed: Como Lake - Standard Route Date Climbed: Sept 21, 2003 | |
| A little past Como Lake are the Blue Lakes which are at timberline. From there I could see Ellingwood and Blanca (ascended it last year). There was a lot more snow up there more than I thought. I had come this far I wasn’t going to turn around now. The next lake along the trail is Crater Lake at 13,000 feet. The snow was averaging about a foot deep now. There were other people up there that day so a trail had been cut in the snow, but everybody ahead of me was going to Blanca. The last six hundred feet to the summit was steep and difficult. I was slipping and it felt like I was almost rock climbing in snow, needless to say it wasn’t very fun. I thought about quitting numerous times but I told myself that I wasn't going to do another fifteen mile hike up here again. That excuse kept me going. I didn’t get back to the car until 6:30 and I started at 7:15 in the morning. It was a very, very long, tiring day both mentally and physically. Ellingwood is rated a Class 2 hike but not today. I haven’t had a lot of experience in rating harder hikes but this one was harder than Crestone Peak and the Needle both of which are Class 3 hikes. All I have left in this area is Little Bear and I won’t be doing this for another couple of years. Hopefully by then I will have a truck and would be able to knock about four miles out of the day. | |
| Posted Nov 12, 2003 8:58 pm | ||
| RyanS | Route Climbed: Southwest Ridge Date Climbed: August 3, 2003 | |
| We loved the Southwest Ridge so much last year, we had to make a repeat run on the way to Blanca this year. A trip report is available here. | |
| Posted Aug 7, 2003 2:04 pm | ||
| climberkjp | Route Climbed: Blanca traverse Date Climbed: June 15, 2002 | |
| Many thanks to my climbing partner, Drew, who made me drag my ass on to the third summit after the traverse from Little Bear to Blanca. You the man, Drew! | |
| Posted Oct 27, 2002 10:34 pm | ||
| rmjwinters | Route Climbed: Lake Como Approach and Traverse from Little Bear/Blanca Date Climbed: July 4 1999 | |
| Made the classic traverse from Little Bear and Blanca in a shroud of clouds. Couldn't see a damn thing. | |
| Posted Oct 5, 2002 9:00 pm | ||
| Matt Mahoney | Route Climbed: SW ridge from Lake Como Date Climbed: Aug 7 2001 | |
| Nice, long sustained class 3 route up solid corners at 45 deg. There is an awkward crux move around a fin just before you drop into the last gully before the summit. Descended the standard scree route and up to Blanca. It took 2 days because I was turned back yesterday by storms at 13,000 ft. and had to return to camp at 8000 ft. I camped there because I couldn't even drive a rented Jeep Cherokee up the road any higher than that, it is that rough. | |
| Posted May 17, 2002 4:10 pm | ||
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