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| dunking_deutschman | Route Climbed: standard (trail) Date Climbed: Sept 20th, 2005  | |
| This hike starts with a pleasant hike streamside up through an old-growth forest. Treeline reveals a very large basin that stretches for a couple of miles to the real climb. The summit is mabye a third of a mile away geographically, but almost 2000 feet above. The trail is VERY easy to follow for such steep terrain as it winds left, then right as you ascend the summit ridge. A pleasant surprise at the end, the last 25 feet are on large boulders that invlove, in my opinion, a fun and easy little scramble that exceeds class 2. | |
| Posted Oct 1, 2005 3:10 pm | ||
| ajdonner | Route Climbed: Frenchman Creek Date Climbed: September 24, 2005 | |
| Started at the lower (9,300 ft) TH. Despite the super early alpine start of 7:30 we luckily didn't have any weather aside from wind on the hike. 'Twas a bit breezy up top; I was almost blown over a couple of times. Summary-a relatively long approach for a short section on fun, easy scrambling along the summit ridge! The views from the top were amazing though-what was left of the Fall colors looked like little rivers of fire on the flanks of the surrounding peaks. | |
| Posted Sep 27, 2005 12:50 am | ||
| charles97 | Route Climbed: From Mount Columbia Date Climbed: Sept. 6, 2005 | |
| A grueling 12 hour day covering 16 miles and over 6,000 feet of elevation gain. It was all worth it though because I made it to the top of both peaks in the same day. The day started with rain and sleet, but eventually became just cloudy. Very lucky that I was able to spend all day out there without the threat of storms. Met only 2 other hikers on Columbia, and I had Harvard all to myself. I descended into the basin northeast of Columbia and then climbed up Harvard's SE ridgeline. Left trailhead at 6:30 am (late), summited Columbia around 11:30 am, left for Harvard around noon, and summited Harvard around 3:30 pm and returned to the trailhead around 6:30 pm. Saw a whole herd of mountain goats in Horn Fork Basin above Bear Lake. At least 30 of them (see pic). | |
| Posted Sep 16, 2005 7:44 pm | ||
| jhansen007 | Route Climbed: South Slopes Date Climbed: Sept 4, 2005 | |
| Summited w/ sp'er ahansen54 and our father. Set up high camp at 11,600 in Horn Fork Basin. Summitted Harvard early in the morning -- foggy morning so not much for views. Then followed the long long ridge to Columbia. | |
| Posted Sep 8, 2005 5:56 pm | ||
| ahansen54 | Route Climbed: North Cottonwood Date Climbed: September 4, 2005 | |
| Climbed this and Columbia with SP'er jhansen007. Great (long) day, great weather. | |
| Posted Sep 5, 2005 7:19 pm | ||
| ktiffany22 | Route Climbed: North Cottonwood Trailhead Date Climbed: September 3, 2005 | |
| Hiked Harvard, then bagged Columbia. The Harvard trail was a very nice gentle trail with a short fun scramble at the top- and of course, beautiful views! | |
| Posted Sep 4, 2005 11:32 pm | ||
| myrone | Route Climbed: From North Cottonwood Creek TH Date Climbed: Saturday August 27, 2005 | |
| Started up at 4:40AM under starry skies and not another person on the trail until I was well up into Horn Fork Basin. Reached the small summit at 8:10 and had it to my for 20 mins, then back down into the basin in search of the trail to Mt Columbia. My 19th 14'er and another fine Colorado morning. Sweet!! | |
| Posted Aug 28, 2005 11:47 pm | ||
| Mike Mc | Route Climbed: South Slopes Date Climbed: July 30, 2005 | |
| Beautiful Trail! Nice summit block | |
| Posted Aug 28, 2005 10:17 pm | ||
| shansen | Route Climbed: South Slopes - N. Cottonwood Creek TH Date Climbed: July 23, 2005 | |
| There is excellent camping down by the creek (left side of the road) from Silver Creek TH to the parking area at the end of the road. If you find a campsight that suits you, it will serve for summits of harvard, columbia and yale. On this date, there was 4 or 5 snow crossings that didn't require gators, but we punched through a bit. Dry from 13300 to summit. | |
| Posted Aug 8, 2005 11:34 pm | ||
| kilimanjaro1 | Route Climbed: South Slopes from N Cottonwood TH Date Climbed: July 19, 2005 | |
| A fun climb with a group of men from my church. | |
| Posted Jul 31, 2005 9:43 pm | ||
| alpine master | Route Climbed: South slopes Date Climbed: Oct. 5th 2004 | |
| Climbed in combo with columbia. | |
| Posted Jul 24, 2005 5:32 pm | ||
| pksander | Route Climbed: South Slopes Date Climbed: July 17, 2005 | |
| Great trip with Annaleen, Mike, and Marella. Camped Saturday on the meadow below the south ridge dropping from Bear Lake and climbed Sunday morning. Excellent trip, despite some discomfort with the altitude. | |
| Posted Jul 18, 2005 10:31 am | ||
| CWFry | Route Climbed: South Slopes Date Climbed: September 2004 | |
| Cold and snowy day! We got weathered out of Columbia. Next time. | |
| Posted Jul 15, 2005 4:49 pm | ||
| doumall | Route Climbed: South Slopes Date Climbed: July, 21 2004 | |
| 25th 14er! | |
| Posted Jul 13, 2005 2:32 pm | ||
| djilk | Route Climbed: South Slopes Date Climbed: July 11, 2005 | |
| A crystal clear day, we could make out Pike's Peak to the east, Snowmass and the Maroon Bells to the west, Uncompahgre to the southwest, and Grays & Torreys to the northeast. What an amazing summit! From south slopes, the final summit pitch is scrambling (class 2+ or 3), don't let Gerry Roach fool you... | ||
| Posted Jul 12, 2005 9:16 pm | ||
| Brian Kalet | Route Climbed: South Slopes Date Climbed: October 10, 2004 | |
| Beautiful weather! | |
| Posted Apr 6, 2005 5:48 pm | ||
| alpine master | Route Climbed: South Slopes Date Climbed: June 19 2003 | |
| This was a great trail. Encountered some electricity on the summit. Scared the crap out of me. Got down very quickly. Thunder rocked the valley the entire way down. | |
| Posted Apr 3, 2005 11:10 pm | ||
| Old Ickabod | Route Climbed: South Slopes traverse to Columbia Date Climbed: July 2003 | |
| I was able to summit both of these peaks in a day. The hike toward bear lake was gorgeous and I did see a bearprint on the trail. The traverse to Columbia is much farther than it looks. However, it is a lot of fun! The scrambling up to Columbia's Summit was boulder-riffic! | |
| Posted Mar 28, 2005 8:48 pm | ||
| Ratballs | Route Climbed: Rabbit Ridge from Mount Columbia Date Climbed: July, 2002 | |
| This was fun--running the rotten Rabbits from Columbia. I stayed on the ridge crest for as long as possible, until I was stymied by the ears (I think). Not prepared to solo even low-5th class, I detoured under the ears down some slabs into the basin to the west. Atop Harvard, I met a friendly gentleman on top who was cresting middle-age into senior-dom, and who was wearing sneakers, cotton shorts, cotton T-shirt, and floppy canvas bookbag. Turns out he had decided at 4am in Boulder to run up Harvard, and was using the climb as part of his training for Kangchenjunga. Appearances, schmearances--I'm just glad I kept my initial impressions to myself. | |
| Posted Feb 21, 2005 9:17 pm | ||
| ColoradoScott | Route Climbed: South Slopes Date Climbed: September 5, 1981 | |
| On a quick break from college, a friend and I drove from eastern Kansas and ended up backpacking into a camp east of Bear Lake. We summited the next morning, broke camp and headed back out. Another 500+ mile drive and we were back at school. | |
| Posted Feb 1, 2005 11:37 am | ||
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