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| odysseus | Route Climbed: Baldwin Gulch Date Climbed: August 23, 2005  | |
| Drove to timberline over the absolute worst 4WD road I have ever been over. Hiked up the road with Mountain Girl to about 13,800 where a full scale mining operation was going on. A nice finish over the spine to the summit pitch. This was 14er number 22 for me. | |
| Posted Aug 28, 2005 4:42 pm | ||
| Woodie Hopper | Route Climbed: West slopes Date Climbed: May '05 | |
| Nice glissade to avoid many switchbacks. | |
| Posted Aug 25, 2005 9:37 am | ||
| doumall | Route Climbed: West Slopes Date Climbed: July, 5 2005 | |
| 30th 14er! | |
| Posted Jul 13, 2005 2:39 pm | ||
| CWFry | Route Climbed: West Slopes Date Climbed: 7/10/05 | |
| A long schlog from Rt. 162 and more of an introduction to prospecting culture than I expected. Fun day on the massif, however. | |
| Posted Jul 11, 2005 5:01 pm | ||
| rockhoundTG | Route Climbed: West Slopes Date Climbed: July 2, 2005 | |
| Parked at the Baldwin Gulch Trailhead on Fri. evening and hiked up the 4WD road for 3 miles to the road junction at 10,840'. Found a nice campsite here BUT lots of use in this area by 4-wheelers. Just as I was going to sleep a group pulled up and camped about 100 yards away. They yelled & hacked away at trees all night, capped by shooting off a gun at 3:30 AM! 18 times! My worst camping experience ever. Some guys I met near the summit the next day said that they could see the rednecks from where they were camped & they appeared to be shooting at fish in the creek! Thanks to the early "wake-up call" I started up early & took the road to about 12,700'. I left the road & hiked east up the steep and sometimes loose slope toward the 13,700' "saddle" on the south ridge. I wouldn't recommend this route & I noticed later that Roach's 2nd edition guide no longer shows this as a variation. The last climb up the south ridge to the summit is steep but short. On the descent I took the road all the way down except for an obvious (but unmarked) trail at about 13,000' that cut off a long switchback. | |
| Posted Jul 10, 2005 8:14 pm | ||
| Nathan | Route Climbed: South Slopes from Brown's Creek Date Climbed: May 26th, 2005 | |
| Had a great early season hike with very little in the way of snow. Climbed on a weekday, so hardly any snow. | |
| Posted Jun 28, 2005 9:18 pm | ||
| climber514 | Route Climbed: Baldwin Gulch / West Slopes Date Climbed: June-15-2005 | |
| Great day... parked a few hundred yards down from the 4WD parking at 10,840... the stream at this parking lot was running full... but crossable... evidenced by the numerous cars which where driving higher than the 4WD parking lot. We hiked to a gulley around 12,000 and went straight up the slope instead of following the road for numerous swithbacks. We regained the road and continued around the shoulder of Antero to a road juncture... We then hiked up the road a short ways and again went directly up the slope instead of following the road... until we gained the high shoulder at around 13,000ft (and the end of the road). The road stopped here and we had a delightful hike across some rugged rock outcroppings and there was some shallow snowfields that didn't slow us down. The summit approach was up a steeper slope with suprisingly stable rocks. This last section of steeper slope had about a 600ft elevation gain and skirted a stretch of snow. The summit had wonderful views of Princeton. Weather was perfect - blue bird skies... and we took ample time exploring and searching for aquamarine... (we found none). A great hike with a minimal amount of people. (Traffic was stopped at about 12,400 ft at a snow drift - rendering the rest of the road impassable to anything but a dirtbike). | ||
| Posted Jun 21, 2005 8:59 pm | ||
| bc44caesar | Route Climbed: West Slopes Date Climbed: 5 Jun 2005 | |
| Camped at the 4wd trailhead at the road junction to Antero & Baldwin Lakes. Left at 6:30 in the morning and reached the South Ridge of Antero after an hour and a half. Spent the next hour working my way to the top of Antero in at times fierce winds, reaching it at 9:00. Glissaded part way back down and hiked over to North Carbonate via the East Ridge in another 2.5 hrs before descending the North Ridge back to my car in 2 more hours in remarkably fine weather. I didn't see anyone all day, although a couple of others had signed the North Carbonate log before I arrived. | |
| Posted Jun 8, 2005 6:19 pm | ||
| Natasha | Route Climbed: Baldwin Gulch Date Climbed: April 17, 2005 | |
| BEEEEAUTIFUL DAY! Lots of sunshine and little wind...unfortunately that made for a looong trip back to the car. The trip up was great, the snow was relatively hard and easy to traverse. However, most of the trip down was through wet, heavy, snow that one often sunk down knee to thigh deep in (even with snowshoes on). Many times our snowshoes and poles would stick in the snow and trip us. We ended the day very wet and tired, but very satisfied as well. Gorgeous views as always! | |
| Posted Apr 18, 2005 5:52 pm | ||
| James C | Route Climbed: West Slopes Date Climbed: June 16, 2004 | |
| We started beloe treeline, at river crossing. Sort of irratating to see people driving halfway up the mountain but fun none the less. Summit ridge is simple, but when we did it the wind was blowing hard. Good summit. Descent is really quik if you dont follow the trail and just go strait down. | |
| Posted Apr 4, 2005 7:01 pm | ||
| alpine master | Route Climbed: West Slopes Date Climbed: Oct 18 2003 | |
| I got up around 6:00am or so and got out of the campsite before I had to pay $12. I wasn’t too motivated because I couldn’t find the road the night before. I went up a little further and there it was. I headed up the shitty 4X4 road for 3 miles. This was the worse one yet. I got to the Baldwin Creek crossing and decided to keep going. I went to 11,245’ so I could still get 3,000’ of vertical. I started on foot at 8:00am. I continued up the road switching back and forth until about 13,000’. In the mean time a few vehicles passed me. When I got around to the south side of the mountain I had a good view of Shavano and Tabaguache. I continued and started switchbacks again up to 13,700’. The road was worse on this section. The last 500’ looked wicked but wasn’t that bad. I summited around 11:00am. I stayed on the top for a while and headed down at 11:30. I hauled ass as much as I could. I ran for a bit and took one of the gully shortcuts. I got to the truck at 1:15pm. I made great time. I was home by 4:30pm. | |
| Posted Apr 3, 2005 11:33 pm | ||
| Old Ickabod | Route Climbed: West Slopes Date Climbed: October 2003 | |
| Solo trip. I actually slept in the back of my Jeep on Kenosha Pass the night before. Don't ask. I parked just below 11,000 feet and walked up. It started to snow at about 13,000 feet, but it just made it fun! I met Bob on the summit and we swapped cameras for the summit pic. Good times! | |
| Posted Mar 29, 2005 9:00 pm | ||
| ColoradoScott | Route Climbed: Baldwin Gulch/West Slopes Date Climbed: June 20 ,1987 | |
| Ah...the days before owning a 4X4. The haul up the road from the automobile TH is quite a haul. The weather was perfect, so that wasn't an issue; just needed endurance. Fortunately, I met a guy on the way down that had a pickup at the 4X4 TH and he was nice enough to drive me back down the final 3 miles to my car, making it "just" a 13 mile day. | |
| Posted Feb 2, 2005 11:54 am | ||
| Richrat | Route Climbed: Baldwin Gulch Trail Date Climbed: July 2002 | |
| This was my least favorite mountain. The group I was with drove up to the 10,840 ft parking lot. The rest of the trip was on a road with cars going by. It was hazy from the fire that year as well. | |
| Posted Jan 30, 2005 6:53 pm | ||
| keeganyoung1 | Route Climbed: Standard via Jeep Gulch Road Date Climbed: 9/25/04 | |
| Awesome run with my girlfriend and dog. Be sure you hit the Jeep road before dawn as it takes some time and can be a bit wet due to streams. | |
| Posted Nov 22, 2004 6:22 pm | ||
| mr_g | Route Climbed: West Slopes Date Climbed: October 2, 1999 | |
| Drove up the Baldwin Creek to the 4WD parking area. We hiked the road for most of the way, and then climbed up the talus slope to the summit. We saw a few vehicles that made it up higher on the road too. | |
| Posted Oct 12, 2004 10:15 am | ||
| hhsilleck | Route Climbed: West Slopes Date Climbed: July 2004 | |
| The hardest part was getting up to the trailhead. Very rough! Not a big fan of hiking up the road ... sharing the "serene" mountains with ATVs and four wheelers makes this one of the less pleasant 14er routes in my opinion. | |
| Posted Sep 13, 2004 4:42 pm | ||
| coloradoiceclimber | Route Climbed: West Slopes Date Climbed: August 18, 2004 | |
| My 27th 14er (Half Way!!) on my 27th birthday!! We made it to the summit in 2 hrs. from where we ditched the truck just above tree line and then got back off of the ridge just before the sleet and snow moved in. The crux of this climb is getting out of bed early enough to beat the weather and not on the ridge. | |
| Posted Aug 18, 2004 5:19 pm | ||
| kilimanjaro1 | Route Climbed: West Slopes from Baldwin Gulch TH Date Climbed: July 23, 2004 | |
| My initial plan was to drive to the 4wd parking spot up the road, but after scouting it out the day before I decided I liked my car too much to chance it on the rough, rocky road. So my buddy, Chris Calvert, and I hoofed it up from the Blank Gulch TH at 9420 ft. The hike up the road was uneventful, switchbacks offered some nice views of North Carbonate, and the final part of the climb was fun finding a route to the summit. | |
| Posted Aug 6, 2004 11:41 pm | ||
| rob_runkle | Route Climbed: Baldwin Gulch Date Climbed: July 24, 2004 | |
| For a road hike, this was great! | |
| Posted Aug 1, 2004 3:44 pm | ||
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