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| Fletch | Cinco de Mayo  Date Climbed: May 5, 2013 | |
| Felt a little guilty stealing a bootpack, but then again, I didn't feel that bad... | |
| Posted May 6, 2013 12:57 pm | ||
| I like it on top | Little Bear Date Climbed: Apr 15, 2013 | |
| Some post holing, but overall a great climb and fun day. Wish the cloud ceiling would have risen for a better view but not complaining. | |
| Posted Apr 18, 2013 8:25 am | ||
| tobe945 | hourglass Date Climbed: Jun 3, 2010 | |
| Fun climb! Got into some gravely mixed scree-ice in the hourglass. | |
| Posted Jan 15, 2013 3:06 am | ||
| Matt Lemke | SW Ridge in Winter Date Climbed: Dec 29, 2012 | |
| What a great route! The Mamma Bear traverse was incredible! Not too much snow on the route and we had a calm sunny day. I had just come from Seattle at sea level and had no altitude acclimatization so it was somewhat painful but I pushed through. | |
| Posted Dec 30, 2012 1:48 pm | ||
| triyoda | The Glass Date Climbed: Jul 27, 2012 | |
| Had the mountain to myself. As careful as I was, still sent a few rocks down (no one below). Great peak, I would never climb this with anyone above me. | |
| Posted Dec 19, 2012 1:33 am | ||
| rasgoat | Nice! | |
| Climbed the Northwest Face and it was fun! Nice summit. Bailed on the traverse due to time and storms rolling in early on the prior days. The descent of the wet hourglass is intimidating! | |
| Posted Nov 24, 2012 2:56 pm | ||
| Diggler | Great warm-up Date Climbed: Jul 10, 2012 | |
| After 4 hours of sleep, drove to trailhead from Alamosa (F in motel prep’ing for High Desert Museum interview). After getting to TH sign-in @ 4.44 & parking, realized day pack nowhere to be found. Thorough, frantic scouring of both front & back failed to locate it. Called F & she didn’t see it anywhere around motel either. Finally decided to drive back to Alamosa to see if it had perhaps fallen off of the truck by chance that I’d accidentally forgotten it on top of truck or something. En route saw it lying on roadway I’d accidentally turned onto before correcting self (along w/ camping pot). Had just prayed to St. Antonius for help finding it. No amount of recollection or logic could explain how it could have fallen out of the truck! Grabbed it & headed back to parking (8,000’, 1.8 mi. after turn-off). Left TH @ 5.52. Hauled ass to try to compensate for lost time. Encountered old man muttering to himself shortly before lake. Came across a group of 3 (above me) @ Hourglass & passed on 4th class on L (crux dripping w/ H2O from previous night’s rains). Summited to partly cloudy, but w/ swirling clouds in many places, @ 10.22 (4:30 after leaving car @ 8,000’). Left summit @ 10.33 for Blanca. | |
| Posted Oct 1, 2012 7:51 pm | ||
| Woodie Hopper | NW face misadventure Date Climbed: Aug 4, 2012 | |
| Found a scree slope to the North of the standard route which cliffed-out somewhere on the NW face (South of the summit). I missed the standard route turnoff in the dark. Stuck too high, almost every rock was rotten and pulled out with little effort. This reminded me of pulling books out of a shelf at the library! Very scary, and I'm lucky to eventually climb my way out of several hundred feet of nearly vertical climbing with so much rotten rock. After topping out, I dropped down and summited via the hourglass. Afterwards I took the LB-Blanca ridge (easy after my NW face fiasco) and also climbed Ellingwood Point. | |
| Posted Aug 5, 2012 1:49 am | ||
| boisedoc | hourglass Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2012 | |
| as advertised. I think this is most difficult colorado 14er. The hourglass was wet and a fall could be fatal. The rope was in good shape and the slings looked good. I used it to come down. I wished I had my climbing harness with me. Even above and below the rope there is plenty of scrambling. I was solo on a sunday so no rockfall risk. Generally, if you stay on route above the rope (go left) there is not too much loose rock. | |
| Posted Jul 23, 2012 12:04 am | ||
| xpda | Little Bear Date Climbed: Jun 27, 2004 | |
| Solo | |
| Posted Oct 29, 2011 1:07 pm | ||
| Ted Eliason | Little bitch Date Climbed: May 23, 2009 | |
| We thought we would get the better of this route with firm snowpack. What we endured was white out conditions, post holing and a 22 hour round trip ordeal. I'd come back to see is this is easier in better conditions if I didn't hate the Como Road so much. | |
| Posted Oct 13, 2011 5:21 pm | ||
| coolalertguy | First Fourteener Date Climbed: Sep 13, 2011 | |
| Probably a little crazy as my first fourteener, but I've climbed plenty of fourth- and fifth-class stuff before. Quiet day (only one other party on the mountain) and decent weather for the ascent—overcast, but not windy. Two of us started up a little late from above Lake Como and reached the summit via the hourglass 4:50 later. Started to sprinkle snow flurries on the descent and was raining on our hike out to the vehicle. Next morning we noticed white on the tops of the mountains. Overall, a great trip! | |
| Posted Sep 15, 2011 12:46 pm | ||
| vbeckman74 | Heads Up Date Climbed: Nov 8, 2005 | |
| Great conditions for November. Little Bear is very dangerous. Be aware of parties above you in the hourglass. Softball sized talus will rocket down the chute at about 100 mph. Roped movement might not be a bad idea. There was a fall fatality in 2010. | |
| Posted Aug 7, 2011 10:41 am | ||
| zoomloco | the best classic traverse | |
| climbed twice, once via the standard hourglass and onto the blanca traverse, by far the best traverse and probably the best 14er route in CO, if you dont count longs diamond. the second time via a chossy couloir coming up from blue lakes and intersection the hourglass route just below its crux. probably 5.3, but not too exposed; it's a gully. in any case hourglass is trivial after that... http://zoomloco.xanga.com/732717261/purple-mountain-majesties/ | |
| Posted Jul 16, 2011 4:57 pm | ||
| theREALCarpeDM | South LB + LB via SW ridge Date Climbed: Jun 11, 2011 | |
| Attempt #1 2 weeks ago was cut short at 13,600 due to winds. This time made it all the way. Fun knife edge to SLB and fun traverse. Exposure was occasionally intense - especially since we had to test every rock. | |
| Posted Jun 12, 2011 4:20 am | ||
| Jeremy Hakes | Big day Date Climbed: May 27, 2005 | |
| Lots of work for such a "short" hike. | |
| Posted Apr 23, 2011 4:42 pm | ||
| StephanieLynn | winter scramble Date Climbed: Mar 12, 2011 | |
| Third time up this mountain, but first time taking the SW ridge. Really fun scramble up to South LB and traverse to LB main summit. Third time on LB. | |
| Posted Mar 22, 2011 6:06 pm | ||
| Kiefer Thomas | Via SW Ridge Date Climbed: Mar 12, 2011 | |
| Finally successful on this repeat attempt. Went up with Stephanie Lynn, Britt Jones, Terry Matthews and Mike & Dina. Had great weather. The climb to South Little Bear was more intense than the traverse between the two. Great day! | |
| Posted Mar 16, 2011 7:49 pm | ||
| Kiefer Thomas | West Ridge Date Climbed: Feb 18, 2011 | |
| We stopped at the entrance to the Baby Thunder Couloir roughly 15 minutes before the base of the Hourglass. Weather has deteoriated and the snow conditions were horrible...scary really. Will be back for another go...maybe the SW Ridge. | |
| Posted Mar 8, 2011 1:26 am | ||
| mattpayne11 | Hourglass Date Climbed: Aug 8, 2010 | |
| Ascended via the Hourglass. Very wet. Not the most fun I've had - definitely a nail-biter. Read my Trip Report if you want to learn more. | |
| Posted Feb 4, 2011 4:23 pm | ||
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