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| HokieJim | What a day!  Date Climbed: Apr 27, 2008 | |
| Never thought I would set foot on that summit! Unbelievably fun climb in great snow conditions! | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2008 3:42 pm | ||
| msihl | NW buttress with class 5 variation Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2008 | |
| Climbed with Sarp and Paul. Tough 5.6-5.7 section, very icy and slippery...rappelled down the hour glass. 6 hrs up, 6.5 hrs down from Lake Como. | |
| Posted Aug 20, 2008 2:28 pm | ||
| davebobk47 | Hourglass Date Climbed: Jul 27, 2008 | |
| Climbed via the hourglass; lots of water. No one else on the route. Clouds rolled in just before noon. 7 hours round trip from Lake Como camp, started 0530. | |
| Posted Jul 28, 2008 9:58 am | ||
| Gahugafuga | W Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 10, 2008 | |
| Wet rock made for a tricky ascent and even trickier descent. Several others were on route simultaneously but everyone was good about not kicking down anything too big. Still, I could hear rockfalls occurring all over the mountain which was a little spooky. | |
| Posted Jul 13, 2008 1:43 am | ||
| Kiefer Thomas | Snow climb Date Climbed: May 18, 2008 | |
| Definately much easier with snow. That ridge traverse to Blanca should be ready in another couple weeks. | |
| Posted May 19, 2008 7:48 pm | ||
| Eric Holle | Hourglass Date Climbed: May 11, 2008 | |
| After summiting Ellingwood and Blanca the day before, Ben L and I ascended the Hourglass route on Little Bear Pk in thinning snow conditions with a bit of ice peeking out. Exciting and rewarding summit! | |
| Posted May 15, 2008 12:08 am | ||
| ktiffany22 | Against all odds Date Climbed: Apr 27, 2008 | |
| We summited! 2 hour driving "boot delay," flat tire on the hwy delay, vehicle road-blocking on Como-lake road delay and cause for extra hiking with camping gear in hand... but we made it! Climbing this is in snow (very avy prone so be careful about conditions) is totally the way to do it to avoid rockfall danger! We EARNED this summit!!! | |
| Posted Apr 28, 2008 6:15 pm | ||
| shknbke | Hourglass/West ridge from road Date Climbed: Apr 27, 2008 | |
| Perfect snow conditions in the hourglass as I summitted with Hokiejim and ktiffany22. We camped at 10.2K at the sites along Como Lake Rd and bushwacked all the way up the west ridge to meet the standard route. Slope angle was meaured at 40-45 degrees below/to the rap anchors and there was a very short 50 degree slope just below the summit. Climbing on stable snow is the way to do Little Bear! | |
| Posted Apr 28, 2008 5:51 pm | ||
| astrobassman | Fun Mountain | |
| I really liked this mountain and didn't think the hourglass was too bad, but a marmot did eat my hat at the base of it. | |
| Posted Mar 21, 2008 3:49 pm | ||
| SarahThompson | Hourglass / NW Face & Winter Ascent Date Climbed: Sep 17, 2005 | |
| 9/17/05 - Climbed the hourglass route from camp at Lake Como. 6/10/06 - One day blitz of the Lake Como Trio. Climbed the NW Face of Little Bear, did the classic traverse to Blanca, stayed on the ridge to Ellingwood, and descended Ellingwood's SW ridge. 2/28/09 - Climbed the NW Face (protected everything from the black hand, up). Descended the standard Hourglass route. 18 hrs car to car. NW Face = cold in winter | |
| Posted Mar 13, 2008 1:38 pm | ||
| MountainHikerCO | Lightning Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2001 | |
| This was my second climb of Little Bear. We did the standard hourglass route. We were hurried by lightning on the return. | |
| Posted Feb 22, 2008 8:40 pm | ||
| MountainHikerCO | Hourglass Date Climbed: Jul 25, 1994 | |
| This was my first climb of Little Bear. We did the stardard West Ridge route through the Hourglass from Como Lake. | |
| Posted Feb 22, 2008 8:38 pm | ||
| CODave | Hourglass Date Climbed: Jun 30, 2007 | |
| Not crowded... only 2 other people on the mountain than us. | |
| Posted Feb 7, 2008 8:52 am | ||
| tomlauren | Little Bear - Blanca - Ellingwood Pt in a day Date Climbed: Aug 23, 2007 | |
| From camp at Lake Como, climbed the West Ridge of Little Bear, performed the traverse to Blanca Peak, then descended Blanca's Northwest Face to Ellingwood Point's South Face with my friend Keith. The hourglass wasn't too bad. I never touched the ropes, but I also have a rock climbing background. We saw a little bear while hiking up the jeep road to Lake Como. Kind of ironic. | |
| Posted Feb 3, 2008 7:02 am | ||
| Sheets | Blanca-LB traverse solo | |
| Climbed Blanca traversed to LB and then reversed the LB-Blanca traverse to descend since I wasn't sure what the standard route up LB is. Don't recommend doing the same. | |
| Posted Jan 27, 2008 9:37 pm | ||
| Mike Mc | Hourglass Date Climbed: Sep 15, 2007 | |
| Hourglass to LB/Blanca Traverse to Blanca/Ellingwood Ridge to Ellingwood SW Ridge. The 'Hourglass' was not as bad as I expected; however, it was dry and we were alone on the peak. We dislodged a few rocks and these puppies sure were missiles heading down the gully. As for the fixed lines, double check the mess of anchors...quite a bit of the webbing (and ropes for that matter) looked sketch, to say the least! | |
| Posted Sep 16, 2007 11:50 pm | ||
| dr_gonz | hourglass | |
| did it midweek... I got chased down last year by hail and lightning. This year I didnt have that problem at all. No one else on the route while I was there that day. The hourglass was not as bad as it hyped to be in my opinion. I think that I had played it up in my mind some. Lots of loose rock. no question. | |
| Posted Sep 5, 2007 1:44 pm | ||
| mtnhiker13 | Hourglass Route Date Climbed: Aug 17, 2007 | |
| Glad to have climbed this mountain - great character building. Hourglass was of course very wet - climbed up to the left of the worst of it. Used a rope we brought to rap down. One person in our party was hit on the helmet with a rock - it's a pretty scary thing to see! She was ok. | |
| Posted Aug 20, 2007 3:44 pm | ||
| ElliottDavis | yay Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2007 | |
| Seven AM on top via the hourglass from Lake Como. I like getting up early - particularly for a humdinger of a mountain like this one. Wow. | |
| Posted Aug 20, 2007 12:03 am | ||
| chicagotransplant | NW Face up, Hourglass down Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2007 | |
| Climbed the NW Face route with Jamie Nellis. Started to rain a little just below the summit. It was short lived, but we unfortunately had to descend the hourglass with wet rock. I don't know what its like dry, but wet the hourglass was scary! | |
| Posted Aug 12, 2007 9:16 pm | ||
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