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| jnoffsinger | Route Climbed: Northwest Slopes Date Climbed: June 25, 2005  | |
| This was the easiest of the four 14er I hiked in the Sawatch Range this week. Number 12 on the 14er list. Summited with my hiking cousin, Shane and Trent. Somebody should have been taking tickets on top. There were 17 bodies on the summit. | |
| Posted Jul 17, 2005 10:58 pm | ||
| Old Ickabod | Route Climbed: Northwest Slopes Date Climbed: August 2003 | |
| I'm not sure what I was happier about, summiting Mt Huron in two hours or not having to drive down Chaffee 390 in order to get to another 14er! This was an easy and very fun hike. I would recommend it to anyone! | |
| Posted Jul 14, 2005 10:22 pm | ||
| doumall | Route Climbed: Northwest Slopes Date Climbed: May, 15 2004 | |
| 14th 14er! | |
| Posted Jul 13, 2005 3:21 pm | ||
| mntnplay | Route Climbed: North Ridge Date Climbed: 10 July 2005 | |
| Be sure to stay right at all turns as you drive the 4WD trail from Winthrop. Ascent from 4WD closure. Dry all the way to the top. Amazing views of Ice Mtn -- there's a tantalizing couliour leading to the tippy-top over there.... | |
| Posted Jul 10, 2005 9:10 pm | ||
| belexes | Route Climbed: North Ridge Date Climbed: July 4, 2005 | |
| I started out from Winfield on the North Ridge route (route 12.2 in Roach's guidebook), but instead of going east into Lulu Gulch, I continued south into the Banker Mine drainage, for my Trails Illustrated map shows a primitive trail continuing on to the main Huron Peak trail. What a mistake! The jeep trail peters out, so I had to climb directly up the hill and over to Browns Peak. Then I traversed over to Huron and then headed back down via the standard route. It was a very tiring day, but what the hell, it builds character and all that. | |
| Posted Jul 5, 2005 11:54 am | ||
| Foxy Long Bottoms | Route Climbed: NW Slopes Date Climbed: 6/19/05 | |
| Another nice CFI. Very mellow 14er in my opinion. | |
| Posted Jun 20, 2005 1:21 pm | ||
| bc44caesar | Route Climbed: Northwest Slopes Date Climbed: 19 Jun 2005 | |
| Started from the 4WD closure - took only 1hr 40min to make the summit. Mostly snow free above treeline, although there is a long crossing of a snowfield that softens up quite a bit during the day. Got to do a nice glissade down one of the upper snowfields though -that was a lot of fun! The Apostles looked stunning (and very snow - covered!) | |
| Posted Jun 19, 2005 8:37 pm | ||
| Natasha | Route Climbed: North Ridge Browns-Huron Traverse...sort of Date Climbed: June 12, 2005 | |
| In near white out conditions, we somehow (and don't ask me how) ended up making a big arc around the other side of Brown's (ON a ridge, explain that one) and ended up summitting another 13er. The other 13er was similar in height as Brown's so, we shrugged, called it good, and headed over to Huron. Then in the still near white-out conditions, with a few high winds thrown in, we summitted Huron. Views were nonexistent, but it was still pretty awesome. Snowed most of the way down, saw an elk and a few other forest creatures. All in all a great day,...confusing, but a great day! | |
| Posted Jun 13, 2005 5:31 pm | ||
| eggheadsherpa | Route Climbed: Northwest Slopes From Clear Creek 4x4 Date Climbed: 8/21/04 | |
| Easy climb....summited in two hours | |
| Posted Jun 9, 2005 1:24 am | ||
| ktiffany22 | Route Climbed: North Ridge: Browns-Huron Traverse Date Climbed: May 29, 2005 Date Climbed: May 29, 2005 | |
| Oops! Be sure you know your directions when looking at pictures of mountains so as to summit the right one first... While taking a "breather" just above the saddle between Huron & Browns (next to Huron), I noticed Roache's picture of Huron... and then thought I was next to Brown's.... I didn't really care to "bag" Brown's, so I headed over to what I thought was Huron.... Yeah, I bagged Brown's, then headed BACK over to bag Huron (Huron's summit can not be seen until you reach the top). Oh well! 2 summit's in a day, not half bad. | |
| Posted May 30, 2005 9:17 pm | ||
| ChuckO | Route Climbed: Winfield/NorthFace Date Climbed: June 2002 | |
| Great climb. Fast pace, started in late afternoon. One of the closest lightening situations I've been in. Kind of thought the thunderstorms weren't gonna come that day, since I had blue sky at 3:30pm when I started! Beautiful country. | |
| Posted May 4, 2005 3:31 pm | ||
| easleygone | Route Climbed: North Ridge Date Climbed: 1995 | |
| Another 14er | ||
| Posted Apr 13, 2005 12:13 am | ||
| Brian Kalet | Route Climbed: Southwest Face Date Climbed: October 3, 2004 | |
| Some snow up high. | |
| Posted Apr 7, 2005 5:48 pm | ||
| altitude14er | Route Climbed: Rockdale Trailhead Date Climbed: 06/2004 | |
| The view from this summit is one of the most spectacular from a Colorado 14er, you can see much of the Sawatch Range as well as the far away Elk Range | |
| Posted Mar 20, 2005 8:08 pm | ||
| Ratballs | Route Climbed: from South fork of Lake Creek 4x4 trailhead via Direct West Face Date Climbed: June, 2002 | |
| Took a friend up on his first 14er. A nice, short, steep one, if I recall correctly (I hope I recall correctly, as it's all I recall about this one). | |
| Posted Feb 22, 2005 9:46 pm | ||
| pebblehopper | Date Climbed: June 2001 | |
| 2nd 14er. Tons of fun! | ||
| Posted Feb 21, 2005 4:05 pm | ||
| Richrat | Route Climbed: North Ridge From Clear Creek Date Climbed: June 2003 | |
| My favorite 14er. This route had a beautiful view the entire way. | |
| Posted Feb 15, 2005 6:52 pm | ||
| ColoradoScott | Route Climbed: Northwest Slopes Date Climbed: September 10, 1983 | |
| In the days before a true west slope trail, we followed the old jeep trail from Winfield up to the gully on the NW ridge of Browns Peak. We then climbed this gully to where the two ridges merge and then to Brown's summit. We followed the ridge south to Huron's summit. On the descent, we climbed back over Browns Peak, but then continued to the saddle just north of it. We then turned left, descending on tundra into Lulu Gulch, and then to another jeep trail to the cars at Winfield. | |
| Posted Feb 7, 2005 1:12 pm | ||
| jratk | Route Climbed: standard Date Climbed: July 2004 | |
| Very hot day | |
| Posted Nov 29, 2004 9:49 pm | ||
| mr_g | Route Climbed: Northwest Slopes Date Climbed: August 22, 2000 | |
| Started from the South Winfield 4WD trailhead, and did this route in under 5 hours. The CFI trail was very easy - you could have hiked this one with your hands in your pockets the whole way. We did encounter a few massive cairns along the way which seemed like overkill. | |
| Posted Oct 12, 2004 9:11 am | ||
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