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| hhsilleck | Route Climbed: West Ridge Date Climbed: July 2001  | |
| Steep, but better since the CFI trail work. Thanks guys! | |
| Posted Jan 10, 2004 7:19 pm | ||
| bdewoody | Route Climbed: Northwest Ridge Date Climbed: July, 2003 | |
| The first 14er of the year is always the hardest. | |
| Posted Dec 3, 2003 6:41 pm | ||
| RyanS | Route Climbed: West Ridge Date Climbed: August 24, 2003 | |
| We climbed Iowa and Emerald, too, from the Rockdale TH. Great day! A TR is available here. | |
| Posted Aug 25, 2003 11:25 pm | ||
| cmccall | Route Climbed: nothwest ridge Date Climbed: august 8 2003 | |
| only myself and one other person on this trail today | ||
| Posted Aug 10, 2003 4:53 pm | ||
| rob_runkle | Route Climbed: Missouri Gulch TH Date Climbed: July 22, 2003 | |
| Belford, Oxford, Missouri, Emerald and Iowa. 5 peaks, 16.5 miles, 8180 feet. | |
| Posted Jul 30, 2003 7:09 pm | ||
| kilimanjaro1 | Route Climbed: NW Ridge from Missouri Gulch TH Date Climbed: July 21, 2003 | |
| A fun climb for my first 14er of the season. I did this one with my cousin... it was his first 14er attempt ever and a good break in climb for him to introduce him to Colorado 14ers. The grassy slope up was steep, but a good challenge a day after coming from sea level. The ridge to the summit was a blast. Descent was down the scree slope from the big cairn on the summit ridge. A good climb on a fun mountain. I really liked this one! | |
| Posted Jul 29, 2003 6:37 pm | ||
| Kane | Route Climbed: Northwest Ridge Date Climbed: 1996 | |
| Missouri Mountain is by far the best of the Belford Group. The summit view is very good, much better than many 14ers in the area. The view of the Pine Creek Drainage is magical. Also, the view of Emerald Peak is inspiring enough to make you go and climb it, which I did in 2002. If I were to climb Missouri again would for sure go for the West Ridge Route from the Rockdale TH. I hiked most of this route to climb Iowa Peak and there is a special grassy basin nestled under Missouri's huge west face. It's an intimate location that I will never forget. | |
| Posted May 27, 2003 7:30 pm | ||
| Diggler | Route Climbed: 5 September, 1999 Date Climbed: NW Ridge from Elkhead Basin | |
| Starting from the Vicksburg trailhead, got to the top in 3 hrs, 3 min (I hate it when it's just a few minutes past the hour mark!!!). Had already done Oxford and Belford previously (ominous-looking clouds were moving in that first time, so I decided not to try for Missouri), so decided to rest on my laurels and call it a day. | |
| Posted Apr 24, 2003 7:09 pm | ||
| chef007 | Route Climbed: Missouri Gulch Date Climbed: 13 April 2003 | |
| This mountain becomes rather hard to do later in the day as the sum melts the snow into slush. There is also no trail to the summit other then the one I broke. Getting to treeline is also somewhat of a problem, 100 yds from treeline the snow gets waist deep, skies are the way to go here and snowshoes dont help at all. | |
| Posted Apr 16, 2003 3:20 pm | ||
| big_g | Route Climbed: Northwest Ridge Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2002 | |
| Watch out for the marmots in Elkhead Basin! They can be relentless and there is no place to hang food. | |
| Posted Mar 3, 2003 4:20 pm | ||
| Colonelpyat | Route Climbed: Missouri Gulch Date Climbed: August 21, 2002 | |
| I went on this one with my father. He decided he'd gone far enough when we hit the ridge. I raced up to the top, trying to beat a wall of clouds moving in over Huron. I lost the race and missed out on another chance for a good view. | |
| Posted Feb 28, 2003 4:22 am | ||
| Grant | Route Climbed: Clohesy Lake - 10,800 - 5 miles rt Date Climbed: July 7, 2001 | |
| This approach was 3,100 feet in 2 ½” miles. The hike got steep fast although it was a grassy slope all the way to the ridge. Once on the ridge we were already at 13,900 feet so it wasn’t that hard except for an area where we had to do a little scrambling. At the top looking down at Missouri Basin were the views of the prettiest basin's I’ve seen to this date. The other side is Missouri Gulch and it was also pretty. Missouri Mountain was short but steep. There was nothing technical and the majority of the hike was on tundra grasses. Above timberline this side of the mountain doesn’t have an established trail as of yet, but you can see the route the whole way. | |
| Posted Jan 20, 2003 10:31 am | ||
| rmjwinters | Route Climbed: Missouri Gulch Date Climbed: August 3 2001 | |
| 5 hour roundtrip. Nice day. | |
| Posted Oct 6, 2002 2:27 pm | ||
| xskier77 | Route Climbed: East Ridge Class 4 Date Climbed: September 1, 2002 | |
| Started hiking at 3:30am with the plan to bag Missouri, Belford and Oxford. After missing the turn for the standard route we wound up at Elkhead pass and decided to continue on by climbing the 4th class east ridge. We encountered some rotten rock on the toughest pitch but with careful hand holds we made it without any problems. Decided that downclimbing was not the safest option so we descended the scree gully off the summit which turned out to be quite fun and fast. | |
| Posted Sep 7, 2002 7:27 pm | ||
| wayneaflick | Route Climbed: West Ridge from Cloyses Lake Date Climbed: September 5, 1997 | |
| My son, Patrick, and I camped near the cabin above Cloyses Lake and started our climb at daybreak. I had tried the week before but I went to far up the upper valley before I tried to reach the ridge and it got too late so I aborted. We went directly to the ridge when we reached the upper valley. This is a really neat place. We followed the ridge with little or no difficulty except I lost one of my brand new gloves. We joined the Northwest Ridge Route and completed the climb. | |
| Posted Jun 28, 2002 10:32 pm | ||
| ctruscot | Route Climbed: Missouri Gulch Date Climbed: Novemember 20, 1999 | |
| Late in the season this year but not a bad climb. Started out cold and sunny then hit a white out at the summit. Stayed foggy and a bit snowy the rest of the way down. | ||
| Posted Jun 17, 2002 2:27 pm | ||
| Matt Mahoney | Route Climbed: West ridge Date Climbed: Aug 17 2001 | |
| 5th summit of Nolan's 14. I waited for Hans at Closhey Lake but he had a little pulmonary edema during the climb and it was slow going to the summit, about 3PM of day 2. We descended a class 3 scree slope straight from the summit into Missouri Gulch, where Hans dropped out (and recovered). His wife was waiting with a nice meal for both of us. I was on my own to Belford. | |
| Posted May 17, 2002 5:01 pm | ||
| jwclimbs | Route Climbed: One of the Eastern Couloirs of the North Couloirs Date Climbed: 6.18.00 | |
| WOW - Picked a fine group of folks to follow up my first fourteener! Half of our party took the standard route while the other half decided to try something a little more challenging. Me and my testosterone opted to do something "challenging". In hindsight, I think it was a bad call. After putting on a pair of crampons for the first time ever, and a crash course in self arrest with a mountain axe, we headed up the snowfield. It got quite steep in the upper portions. And there was even some mixed climbing round out my experience. I was scared and unprepaired, BUT I had a killer time & a viscious seed was planted that day! | |
| Posted Jan 30, 2002 12:29 pm | ||
| Zeke | Route Climbed: Standard route Date Climbed: Aug. 2001 | |
| Combine w/Belford & Oxford, makes a great back packing/climbing weekend. | |
| Posted Jan 16, 2002 7:35 am | ||
| steve simmons | Route Climbed: from the west Date Climbed: august 17 th and 18th | |
| summated huron around 9:00 at nightfall and descended from their to clousey lake just below treeline on missouri's western slopes, from there climbed up and unto missouri's eastern summit ridge. my flashlight went out but it was a clear night, no moon, but enough light to make out the trail along the summit ridge. about 100 yards or so from the summit I came to a place where it was to steep to negotiate on either side without a light as I couldn't make out the route in the darkness. curled up and attempted to sleep for an hour or so but it was very cold and windy, when it began to get light and there was enough light to continue on I went on and summated. Descended to the east towards belford from there. Praise GOD and JESUS CHIST, LORD Of ALL!!!!!!! | |
| Posted Jan 3, 2002 4:48 pm | ||
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