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| mountainsurfer | Route Climbed: a snow filled gulley southeast of the Ptarmingen Glacier Date Climbed: October 6, 2005  | |
| The wind was blowing, snow was falling, avalance danger that I avoided, but I cramponed my butt to the top with a cool 15 foot vertical ice wall - old snow that was ice, climb at the end at the top of the gully . Glad that it was the first big snowfall of the season. Good test of Winter mouuntaineering skills. It also helped that two buck elk were at the top welcoming me to the continental divide. | ||
| Posted Oct 10, 2005 1:11 am | ||
| jennakate | Route Climbed: Bear Lake Date Climbed: Way too many times to count! | |
| I have used this mountain so many times to summit other great peaks in the park, such as Hallets, Otis, Taylor, Powell, Notchtop, Knobtop, Gabletop, and Sprague Mountain. The hike from Bear Lake to Grand Lake over Flattop is also a good hike, but too much downhill for me. | |
| Posted Oct 8, 2005 11:04 pm | ||
| Joe_Parvis | Route Climbed: Divide traverse from Milner Pass Date Climbed: September 11, 2005 | |
| Crossed Flattop after Bighorn Flats on Continental Divide traverse from Milner Pass to Bear Lake. At this point (~4pm) storms chased us across Flattop and down to treeline. | |
| Posted Oct 6, 2005 6:03 pm | ||
| Bob Sihler | Route Climbed: standard Date Climbed: July 4, 2004 | |
| awesome views, great access to Hallett if you want the easy way up | |
| Posted Sep 30, 2005 9:22 pm | ||
| Bill562 | Route Climbed: Trail Date Climbed: September 21,2005 | |
| On the way to Hallett/Otis | |
| Posted Sep 22, 2005 11:04 am | ||
| KyndKlimber | Route Climbed: Flattop Trail Date Climbed: July 26 2005 | |
| bagged this one on the way to summit Hallett | |
| Posted Sep 5, 2005 3:04 pm | ||
| kcmule | Route Climbed: bear lake Date Climbed: Tuesday July 19, 2005 | |
| climbed with hallett peak | |
| Posted Aug 30, 2005 12:31 pm | ||
| mckbill | Route Climbed: trail from bear lake Date Climbed: 8/8/05 | |
| My wife and I had a very pleasant hike to the summit. We had a snack on boulders overlooking Tindal glacier, and decided to pass on a scramble up to the summit of Hallet (maybe next year). | |
| Posted Aug 14, 2005 10:26 pm | ||
| hoosierhiker | Route Climbed: Standard (Bear Lake TH) Date Climbed: July 29, 2002 | |
| Second time on Flattop on route to a second summit of Hallett. I made my first winter visit to RMNP this past April (2005) and would like to make Flattop my first winter ascent on my next visit. | |
| Posted Aug 12, 2005 11:41 am | ||
| druwdowns | Route Climbed: Bear Lake TH Date Climbed: July 25, 2005 | |
| Hiked to summit with my dad. | ||
| Posted Aug 10, 2005 3:43 pm | ||
| Tajji | Route Climbed: Tyndall Glacier Date Climbed: July 24, 2005 | |
| The early overcast that I worried about on the ascent burned off and revealed a sunny and calm summit. Ascended via the right side of Tyndall Glacier and descended on the standard trail. Great Day! | |
| Posted Jul 24, 2005 4:46 pm | ||
| Asphazell | Route Climbed: Standard Route (from Bear Lake) Date Climbed: January 2004 | |
| It is definately appropriately named...the summit is HUGE and FLAT! Went on to climb Hallett. Will be back for these two for some good snow routes! | |
| Posted Jun 30, 2005 11:28 am | ||
| Roam Around | Route Climbed: Bear Lake TH - Flattop Trail Date Climbed: January 30, 2005 | |
| broke trail in fresh snow all the way up! The clouds broke open just as we reached the top and closed back up on us just as we turned to come down. | ||
| Posted Jun 20, 2005 9:10 am | ||
| ktiffany22 | Route Climbed: Bear Lake trailhead, descent via Andrews Glacier Date Climbed: Summer 03 | |
| Summited Flattop, Halletts Peak, Otis, and half of Taylor- had to leave early to hurry back down to get someone in our group to work.... note to self, take own vehicle next time so as to not be rushed out of the mountains- it was too beautiful to be RUNNING down! | |
| Posted Jun 11, 2005 9:41 pm | ||
| Ferenc Jacso | Route Climbed: North Face Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2004 | |
| I climbed the middle couloir (or finger) with crampons and ice ax. Found some ice mid-August but mostly could avoid it. Wonderful snow conditions altogether. Boy, was it steep! You surely don't want to fall - no runout. Great route description here. 3:50 a.m. start from Glacier Basin Campground, topped out at around 10 a.m. then also visited Ptarmigan Point and Hallett Peak, descended the trail and reached Bear Lake at 1 p.m. | |
| Posted Jun 1, 2005 1:41 pm | ||
| RenoBob | Route Climbed: Bear Lake TH Date Climbed: August 1962 | |
| I was 10 and spending the summer at Cheley Camps. | ||
| Posted May 10, 2005 5:36 pm | ||
| coloradoiceclimber | Route Climbed: Dragon's Tail Couloir Date Climbed: April 24, 2005 | |
| We had awesome conditions for a great climb. Jason & I had a blast!! We tagged Hallett as well, and then descended Tyndal Glacier! | |
| Posted Apr 24, 2005 6:14 pm | ||
| Brian Kalet | Climbed 4 Times Date Climbed: Sep 11, 2011 | |
| 4/11/2004: Corral Couloir 9/27/2009: With Hallet, Otis, Taylor & Powell 7/25/2010: With Sprague Mountain 9/11/2011: With Snowdrift | |
| Posted Apr 14, 2005 3:31 pm | ||
| slowpoke | Route Climbed: Bear Lake TH Date Climbed: January 27th 2005 | |
| Quite desolate, poor visibility. Tried for Hallet, but had to turn around. | |
| Posted Feb 6, 2005 12:38 am | ||
| scvanm | Route Climbed: standard Date Climbed: 2001 | |
| Very windy...the park ranger said is was 60-70 mph. | |
| Posted Jan 14, 2005 7:34 pm | ||
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