"Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it."
--Ernest Hemingway
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markhyams - Mar 2, 2006 11:59 pm Date Climbed: Jul 14, 1999
Northcutt-CarterClimbed this route just days before the giant block fell off, essentially erasing this route. That second pitch did seem a bit loose!
markhyams - Mar 2, 2006 11:57 pm Date Climbed: Jun 25, 1995
Tyndall GlacierMy first foray with an ice axe. Luckily I did not kill myself.
colint - Dec 30, 2005 11:57 pm
Route Climbed: up over flattop Date Climbed: January 2005A really warm (chilly on top of course!) laid back winter day with Jon in the Park. I miss Colorado! I haven't climbed a peak since I moved. Okay, one of the northern foothills of the Brooks Range in November- hopefully when I return from the Andes in a month my tone will have changed!
heather14 - Oct 23, 2005 12:00 am
Route Climbed: Flattop Date Climbed: August 29, 2005Beautiful day for hiking. I ended up mingled with a group of 200 & some kids from a school in Texas...so much for a day of hiking alone. But I had fun with them. It was great to hear their reactions when they made it to the top!
jennakate - Oct 8, 2005 11:21 pm
Route Climbed: via Flattop Date Climbed: August 7, 2005My mom, brother, and I had a great time peakbagging on a beautiful sunny day. They also loved sliding down Andrew's Glacier.
Bill562 - Sep 22, 2005 11:09 am
Route Climbed: Standard Date Climbed: September 21, 2005Easy summit from Flattop trail
millerw05 - Sep 15, 2005 1:52 pm
Route Climbed: Tyndall Glacier Date Climbed: July, 1985Great climb, great route.
KyndKlimber - Sep 5, 2005 2:56 pm
Route Climbed: Flattop Trail Date Climbed: July 26 2005What an awsome vew of Longs from here.....
bauerbrian - Aug 30, 2005 8:38 am
Route Climbed: Tyndall Glacier Date Climbed: September 1997Loved it!
druwdowns - Aug 10, 2005 3:42 pm
Route Climbed: Flattop Date Climbed: July 25, 2005Hiked to summit with my dad.
sshankle - Aug 9, 2005 4:35 pm
Route Climbed: Love to Better Than Love Date Climbed: August 7, 2005Holy cow, what a climb.
Being more of a mountaineer than a hard core rock climber, this this was great! Challenging, exposed, BIG, alpine... WOW. Did I mention that this is a BIG wall...
What a day.
5:30AM to 4:30PM car-to-car.
kcmule - Jul 19, 2005 11:52 pm
Route Climbed: Flattop Trail Date Climbed: Tuesday July 19, 2005Outstanding views in all directions. Longs dominates with a perfect view of the keyboard of the winds. Neversummer and Mummy ranges look close enough to touch, the Gores and even Rabbit Ears distant on the horizon.
Tajji - Jul 10, 2005 5:42 pm
Route Climbed: Andrews Glacier Date Climbed: July 10, 2005I had planned on doing Otis, but decided to continue to Hallett instead. What a beautiful day! I'll definetly be back. The Park was a complete zoo by the time I made my descent at around 11am.
Foxy Long Bottoms - Jul 5, 2005 10:53 am
Route Climbed: The Great Dihedral Date Climbed: 8/04Completed the route but did not continue to the summit via another route. Clouds forming above caused us to make the decision to descend, which was a good one. At the start of rap # 1, we were drenched. Storms move in real fast up there! Great climb regardless.
Asphazell - Jun 30, 2005 11:24 am
Route Climbed: Standard route via Flattop (from Bear Lake) Date Climbed: January 2004Beautiful but extremely windy!!!
Roam Around - Jun 20, 2005 9:12 am
Route Climbed: Bear Lake TH - Flattop Trail Date Climbed: January 30, 2005climbed in conjunction with Flattop.
ktiffany22 - Jun 11, 2005 9:44 pm
Route Climbed: Bear Lake trailhead, descent via Andrews Glacier Date Climbed: Summer 03Summited over Flattop first, then Hallet Peak, Otis, & half of Taylor (had to get someone in our group back for work:-(
My friends decided to "stay in the meadow by flattop and smell the flowers," so I RAN up Hallet Peak and Otis while they "skirted" by it.... oops, while I was boulder hopping on the way back down, one moved and I did a head first somersault down the mountain... good thing my knee crashed into a rock to prevent me going any further. Don't worry, a little bruise won't hurt me on this on... now a steeper mountain would have been treacherous! Good views from the top- enjoy!
coloradoiceclimber - Apr 24, 2005 6:22 pm
Route Climbed: Better Than Love Route & From Flattop Mtn. Date Climbed: April 24, 2005I climbed the better than love route in the summer of 2001, but didn't summit. I guess after (8) pitches of rock it didn't seem very important! I finally stood on top 4/24/05 with Jason after an amazing Dragon's Tail Couloir climb!!
growski - Apr 16, 2005 7:18 pm
Route Climbed: via Flattop Date Climbed: August 25, 2004Endured 70mph gusts!!
altitude14er - Mar 20, 2005 8:21 pm
Route Climbed: Bear Lake Approach Date Climbed: 04/23/2004This was a windy day but luckily for us snowpack was low enough to avoid avalanche danger although a few nasty cornices existed