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cmcalhoun - Jun 21, 2023 4:36 pm Date Climbed: Sep 25, 2022
MeekerClimbed via the Loft Route en route to Longs. Beautiful!
JesseSumrak - Aug 9, 2021 12:54 pm Date Climbed: Aug 5, 2021
Radical Slam10 Peaks of Longs Peak (Nesotaieux’s Ten Tadasanas, Radical Slam Deluxe, “Sick Concoction”) — 17 hours and 10,000 ft of elevation gain. Yesterday, I completed the most demanding physical and mental challenge I’ve ever attempted. Started at 2:30am up the Iron Gates route. Climbed Meeker Ridge, then traversed the amazingly terrifying Knife Edge (I’m so scared of heights, especially 100% fatal ones) to Meeker. I continued on my lonesome to Southeast Longs, and then I got dangerously off route trying to take the Loft to Longs. I miraculously made it with sections of Class 4 (definitely 5 when I got off route) down climbing and met up with the Homestretch portion of the Keyhole. Bagged Longs Peak, then on to Pagoda. Again, off route on fatal ledges before I wasted valuable time back tracking. Found the right route and made it to Pagoda with only a brief Class 4 exciting moment. Traversed below the Trough to the Ledges, passed through the Keyhole, then meandered to Storm. Found some water to filter at the base (thank goodness) before bagging Mount Lady Washington. On to the easy stuff with Battle Mountain and Pine Ridge, then a heartbreaking hour-long bushwack to connect to the Estes Cone Trail. Climbed Estes Cone, cried for a while, and then finished the last 3 miles to the truck before doing 10 pushups (90 less the Gerry Roach demands) and finishing the most epic adventure of my life.
BKiser90 - Aug 5, 2021 1:35 pm Date Climbed: Aug 5, 2021
Iron Gates Up, Loft DownAfter summitting Meeker Ridge via the Iron Gates route, we traversed the Meeker knife edge to Meeker's summit. Perfect weather minus the haze from the PNW fires. The knife edge was somewhat scary but very stable. Great footholds on the north side of the knife edge. Super fun route. After summitting, Jesse went on to do the radical slam and Andrea and I went down the Loft. Total time out around 9 hours.
jake_the_snake - Sep 2, 2020 11:27 am Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2020
Loft to Meeker & LongsGreat climb
McCannster - Aug 26, 2019 6:43 am Date Climbed: Aug 24, 2019
Meeker BiathalonBiked from my house in Boulder to LP Trailhead, up Iron Gates, ridgeline scramble, down Loft, and back out. Fun day. Glad to have finally bagged this 13er. 13 hours door to door.
Wheelbarrow - Feb 5, 2018 11:12 pm Date Climbed: Jun 15, 2017
Grand Slam - Longs and its 4 buttress peaksMissed Lamb's Slide and went up Ship's Prow for a puckering crux of climbing around ice...yeah that was questionable but good holds regardless since we stayed to the left at the top of the couloir.
kronshage3 - Apr 15, 2017 2:11 pm Date Climbed: Mar 17, 2017
Loft RouteStarted from Longs Peak trailhead around 6:45AM. Hardened snow for most of route. Snowfield in between chasm junction and Chasm lake. Highly suggest crampons and ice axe. Loft couloir was solid. Snow was softened near top of couloir due to direct sunlight. Descended via Meeker Ridge and into Iron Gates. Snow was wet the rest of trip. Back at car around 3PM.
JRaphaelson - Aug 31, 2016 7:24 pm Date Climbed: Aug 29, 2016
Loft RouteExcellent route to the summit, short and sweet, then traversed to Longs.
teddycricket83 - Aug 9, 2015 4:51 am
TwiceDid it twice. Once to each of the summits. First time started from much below chasm and then ended up at sandbeach lake and wild basin. 2nd time did it via the loft and then onto longs and then down the old cable route
rmjwinters - Sep 2, 2014 10:42 pm Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2014
The LoftVia the loft. Ice on the ledges. Hit both summits.
BradBartick - Aug 16, 2014 9:03 pm Date Climbed: Aug 16, 2014
Meeker and Meeker RidgeSolo from Sandbeach TH. 4 hours car to summit. Was thrown off track for 1/2 hour in Meeker Bowl- it was a bog, with the ground saturated with water 6" deep. Rather than continue on the SW ridge route, I bushwhacked from the meadow at the base of the bowl to low on Meeker Ridge (~12000 feet), then took it up and over the east summit across the knife edge ridge to the real summit. Awesome day, great temps, only saw 4 other climbers. Long's was packed. I don't think there is a bad route up Meeker.
triyoda - Jul 3, 2014 10:41 pm Date Climbed: Jun 25, 2011
The LoftGreat conditions on the loft, really great summit.
Matt Lemke - May 22, 2014 10:45 am Date Climbed: May 18, 2014
DreamweaverDreamweaver route was real straightforward it was the descent off the Loft that was some of the scariest stuff I'd ever done. Thank god it didn't slide
MadGrad96 - Oct 31, 2013 7:18 pm
MeekerSummited via Iron Gates. Fun stuff!
alpineair - Oct 28, 2013 11:37 am
Loft routeMay have to come back and do the ridge route with the knife edge.
strudolyubov - Sep 4, 2013 12:11 am Date Climbed: Aug 29, 2013
Mount Meeker and Meeker Ridge via Loft DirectSolo climb of Mount Meeker and Meeker Ridge via Loft Direct. Climbed the buttress in the center of the Loft headwall instead of taking the standard ramp. After summiting Meeker, traversed to the high point of Meeker Ridge. Descended the next gully north of the Iron Gates. Nice rock, fun scrambling/climbing, great views.
rockymountaindiva - Jul 26, 2013 4:58 pm Date Climbed: Jun 12, 2012
Loft routeYear of no snow so brought but didn't need crampons, able to climb on rocks in all but one short spot.
belexes - Jul 14, 2013 6:38 pm Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2013
Loft RouteI climbed Meeker with hiking buddy Marco and his friends, Jeff and Ray. We got an early start: 4AM, and surprisingly, there were plenty of empty spaces in the lot. I guess some hikers had been scared off by thunderstorms the previous day. Ray had been up here before, so he was invaluable in finding the correct route at the ridges. I went to the true summit, around 8:30. The others were content with staying on the summit ridge. The weather was clear until around 9:30-10AM, when clouds started rolling in. It was overcast by the time we got back to the trailhead.
Mooner - Jun 3, 2013 3:52 pm
Up I Go06/01/13 via Dreamweaver free solo. Good ice on all the steps going up, Great Snow... I don't thinks it gets much better
MattK - May 31, 2013 11:42 am Date Climbed: May 18, 2013
DreamweaverVia Dreamweaver...primo conditions.