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| Bob Sihler | Route Climbed: Keyhole/North Face Date Climbed: August 21, 2003  | |
| Great hike/climb and not one step shared with anybody else-- no kidding. Okay, there were others sharing the trail up to and back from Boulder Field, but I had the Keyhole Route and the descent to myself because I went up from camp in the late afternoon and returned at sunset. This was the way to go, as I can't imagine my frustration sharing the Trough and Homestretch with slow and/or inept climbers. When I got back to the parking lot, I checked the register and found that about 300 people were out on the mountain that morning-- definitely not for me. | |
| Posted Sep 28, 2005 9:58 pm | ||
| jordancl | Route Climbed: keyhole Date Climbed: Sept. 18, 2005 | |
| Climbed by the full moon. Colder than a well diggers ass, I tell you what. | |
| Posted Sep 18, 2005 11:53 pm | ||
| alpspitze | Route Climbed: Keyhole Date Climbed: August 17, 1991 | |
| One of my first Colorado 14ers on a week long solo adventure in the front range. | |
| Posted Sep 15, 2005 3:39 pm | ||
| millerw05 | Route Climbed: Keyhole Date Climbed: July, 1985 | |
| Had good weather with minimal wind. | |
| Posted Sep 15, 2005 1:54 pm | ||
| Andinistaloco | Route Climbed: Keyhole Date Climbed: 1987? | |
| One of the first higher mountains I'd climbed. Great hike! | |
| Posted Sep 14, 2005 1:30 am | ||
| velodurt | Route Climbed: Keyhole Route Date Climbed: August 11th,2005 | |
| Made it to the top on August 11th, 2005! The Keyhole Route is crazy...especially the Narrows! Took us 13.5 hours roundtrip...great hike! Photos and in depth report available on our personal website at Natural Born Hikers | |
| Posted Sep 8, 2005 3:02 pm | ||
| grkingery | Route Climbed: Keyhole Date Climbed: August 30, 2005 | |
| Third time's a charm! My husband and I picked the right day to climb this year; the weather was perfect! We started at 1:15 a.m. and got to watch the sunrise from the Keyhole - awesome! We met some great people at the top! We watched a lot of them pass us by on the way down, but it didn't hurt the ego too badly! | ||
| Posted Sep 7, 2005 3:01 pm | ||
| Andrew Vargo | Route Climbed: The Keyhole Date Climbed: September 5th, 2005 | |
| Very tedius day but fun route. Left at 2:30am and reached the summit by 7:15. Took our time going down and finished at about noon. Fun day. | |
| Posted Sep 5, 2005 4:15 pm | ||
| eapikula | Route Climbed: Keyhole Date Climbed: September 3rd, 2005 | |
| Drove to Longs Campground from Rapid City, SD(393 miles). I setup tent & slept for 3 hours before heading out at 5:15AM. I summited @ 11:40AM - Stayed up top for an hour or more - was back in Longs Campground @6:00PM. Maybe need to get more sleep before doing this I know I can get up and down faster than this(I did enjoy the hike, wasn't out to set record, took it all in). However I don't know how people can claim to leave at 5:15AM or later in log and claim summit in in little over 3 hours when I saw only one couple pass me going up and pass me again coming down from the trough. Oh well - Next up Gray's and Torreys Peak. Kind of a busy week hiked up Harney Peak, SD - Thursday evening roundtrip 2hrs 45min, Sunday biked from Deadwood to Hill City, approximately 52 miles with two low tires and no pump, oops. | |
| Posted Sep 5, 2005 3:56 pm | ||
| tdoughty | Route Climbed: Keiners Date Climbed: Sept. 2001 | |
| Hit the top of the route with Paul Dowdy in a storm. we left the summit for another time and went straight to the rap anchors. fun route! | |
| Posted Sep 5, 2005 1:40 pm | ||
| bernardhohman | Route Climbed: Keyhole Date Climbed: September 4, 2005 | |
| Cloudy skies early in the morning had me concerned, but all turned out well. Conditions were ideal, not too hot and not too cold. | |
| Posted Sep 4, 2005 9:41 pm | ||
| kcmule | Route Climbed: Keyhole Date Climbed: Monday Aug 29th, 2005 | |
| Finally got 'er done! Climbed with compadre Andy. We did not get to train as hard as we should have for this climb and we paid for it! I admit I was nervous in a few places. But weather was perfect so we kept on slogging 10-15 feet at a time until we finally made the summit. Hiking back took almost as long as going up, but it's done and now we can look forward to new challenges! | |
| Posted Aug 30, 2005 12:40 pm | ||
| jrf | Route Climbed: Keyhole Date Climbed: August 28, 2005 | |
| Finally summited this mountain. I've been worried about this mountain for a while because I tend not to do well on extremely long hikes. My first attempt ended because I was too exhausted to continue. This time we made it just fine in 11 hours RT. My 39th fourteener. | |
| Posted Aug 29, 2005 11:58 am | ||
| Jonboy71 | Route Climbed: Keyhole route Date Climbed: 08/27/05 | |
| Had a great weather day, and better physical conditioning this year, Made it to the summit in 4hrs 15 mins. The hole day took only 9hrs, vs. 11 hours last year. My next goal is to go up the Loft route and do Mt. Meeker, and hopefully I won't have to contend with the two hundred other people along the route, that I delt with this year. | |
| Posted Aug 28, 2005 6:10 pm | ||
| mack78 | Route Climbed: Keyhole Date Climbed: July 27 | |
| Fantastic weather, the whole day long ! Great hike, reached the summit at 10am. | |
| Posted Aug 27, 2005 11:16 am | ||
| Avsfan023 | Route Climbed: Keyhole Date Climbed: August 12, 2005 | |
| Ideal conditions including a meteor shower in the early morning. Happy Birthday Emily! Good luck Dad, can't wait to see your name on this list! | |
| Posted Aug 24, 2005 9:56 pm | ||
| Woodie Hopper | Route Climbed: Keyhole Date Climbed: August 1985 | |
| First 14er | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2005 5:48 pm | ||
| LoriOLin | Route Climbed: Keyhole Route Date Climbed: August 15, 2005 | |
| This was a fantastic hike. It started at 2 am, with every start shining in the sky. We had to slow down a bit because the sun had still not started to rise by the time we got to the boulderfield. We waited by the keyhole and watched the sunrise. Fantastic! We were on the summit by 7:30 am, and then decided to hike over to Chasm Lake, another good hike if you don't want to go to the summit. That trail has a steep uphill to it as well though. I definitely prefer scrambling to hiking a well groomed path like Mount Elbert. Made it feel a little bit more like you were climbing a mountain. Both mountains had an equally great view from the top. | |
| Posted Aug 22, 2005 6:06 pm | ||
| rleary | Route Climbed: Loft, Keyhole descent Date Climbed: August 20, 2005 | |
| Awesome weather! We saw four other people on the loft while the Keyhole was like standing in line from the boulder field all the way to the summit. | ||
| Posted Aug 21, 2005 11:27 pm | ||
| powderdreams | Route Climbed: "Tour de Longs" Impovised Loft Route (up) & Keyhole (down) Date Climbed: August 18, 2005 | |
| Left at Midnight. Basically invented our own way up the loft route since we couldn't find the trail. Turned out to be awesome. Very exciting!!! Most of our loft route turned into a class 4... we even had several class 5 moves and treverses. Should've brought ropes but didn't. Made for a GREAT trip up. Summited at 6:45 and took a power nap for a while. Homestretch was very icy. Keyhole route going back down was lame compared to the loft. Much prefer the loft route. | |
| Posted Aug 19, 2005 1:32 pm | ||
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