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| bernardhohman | Route Climbed: West Ridge via Belford Date Climbed: August 10, 2002  | |
| Nice day, but people started filling in the connecting ridge from Belford. So much for solitude. | |
| Posted Jul 29, 2003 12:57 am | ||
| RyanS | Route Climbed: South Slopes Date Climbed: May 16, 2003 | |
| Great conditions from Belford to Oxford. Our report is available here. | |
| Posted Jun 9, 2003 11:10 am | ||
| Kane | Route Climbed: Soth Slopes Date Climbed: 1997 | |
| I have to disagree with kilimanjaro1, I don't think Oxford is a "wonderful" mountain. It seems as though everybody is miserable by the time they summit this pile of talus. It's not the mountains fault that it is surrounded by steep tree laden huge talus. Plus any route to its summit is unpractical unless you come from Belford. | |
| Posted May 29, 2003 7:25 pm | ||
| chef007 | Route Climbed: Missouri Gulch Date Climbed: 14 April 2003 | |
| I climbed this one with Belford.............that was a loooooooooooooong day. | |
| Posted Apr 16, 2003 3:23 pm | ||
| big_g | Route Climbed: West Ridge Date Climbed: Jun 23, 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 4:19 pm | ||
| Grant | Route Climbed: Missouri Gulch - 9,640' Date Climbed: July 14, 2001 | |
| I made it to Belfords summit spent about one minute on top and headed for Oxford. The weather was heading in fast and was already cloudy, but it didn’t look like thunderstorms yet. The hike over to Oxford was pleasant and was an easy hike. Oxford has a huge summit it's a large mound with alpine grasses all over The 700 feet back to Belfords ridge was the hardest part of the day and it was very steep. Once back on the ridge I didn’t want to make the trek back to Belfords summit so I headed to Elkhead pass. This is the saddle between Belford and Missouri Mtn. | |
| Posted Jan 20, 2003 12:47 pm | ||
| rmjwinters | Route Climbed: Traverse from Belford Date Climbed: June 11 2000 | |
| Made traverse...extremely windy and cold. | |
| Posted Oct 5, 2002 10:06 pm | ||
| charles97 | Route Climbed: From Mount Belford via Missouri Gulch Date Climbed: September 7, 2002 | |
| Steady 40-50 mph wind the whole time I was above tree line! Unbelievable. Had to lean into the wind, and I was still getting blown off my feet at places. Climbing Oxford and back to Belford in this wind was something else! Started at sunrise (6:45 am) and reached Belford summit at 10 am. Reached Oxford summit at 11 am. I tried to get Missouri too, but got stormed off. Oh well, it'll be there. Tenth of 10 fourteeners in 6 days. #18 overall. | |
| Posted Sep 17, 2002 4:05 pm | ||
| xskier77 | Route Climbed: From Belford Date Climbed: September 1, 2002 | |
| After reaching this summit it was quite a relief because we had gotten Belford and Missouri previous to it that day. Heading back to Belford was a grueling 700 vertical ft but it was another relief making it back to Belford. Then the fun downclimb began which did wonders for my knees. This was my first day bagging three 14ers in one day :) and a long day it was...about 13 hours. | |
| Posted Sep 7, 2002 8:13 pm | ||
| wayneaflick | Route Climbed: Elk Head Pass from Missouri Basin Trailhead Date Climbed: August 8, 1997 | |
| When we climbed Belford we didn't climb Oxford because of a summit storm. I climbed Oxford by walking all the way to Elk Head Pass. It's long but easy. Climbing Oxford from Elk Head Pass is just a matter of following Belford's South Ridge to the Oxford-Belford saddle and crossing over. Except for the distance its quite easy. On the down climb I did cross over Belford and followed the standard route down. I was hallucinating on the way. I saw a dinosaur (a large rock), a panther (a small aspen tree), and several skunks ( small rocks). | |
| Posted Jun 25, 2002 8:14 pm | ||
| ctruscot | Route Climbed: Missouri Gulch around backside of Belford Date Climbed: September 9 2000 | |
| I love the valley of Missouri Gulch. Dusting of snow that day and winds that never stopped. | ||
| Posted Jun 17, 2002 10:49 am | ||
| Matt Mahoney | Route Climbed: Belford saddle Date Climbed: Aug 17 2002 | |
| 7th summit of Nolan's 14. Only 45 minutes from Belford. Descended off trail south of the saddle down to an avalanche chute above the Bedrock Falls aid station on the Pine Creek trail. It is getting dark. On to Harvard. | |
| Posted May 17, 2002 5:12 pm | ||
| steve simmons | Route Climbed: standard approach from the west from belford Date Climbed: august 18th, '01 | |
| beautiful morning summit, descended south to avalanche gulch from belford oxford summit. Praise GOD!!!! | |
| Posted Jan 3, 2002 4:54 pm | ||
| Zeke | Route Climbed: Missour Gulch Date Climbed: Oct 1998 | |
| Did it w/Belford and as a backpack into the gulch. Great time and reccomend making it a two day trip as an enjoyable backpack and do Missouri Mt. the next day. | |
| Posted Nov 28, 2001 1:52 pm | ||
| miztflip | Route Climbed: From Belford Date Climbed: July 2000 | |
| Did with Belford and Missouri. The view of Harvard is incredible. | |
| Posted Aug 21, 2001 3:40 pm | ||
| climbcolorado | Route Climbed: West Ridge | |
| Another easy hike with my dog Sneakers! | |
| Posted Aug 16, 2001 7:56 pm | ||
| Peter Eliassen | Route Climbed: Missouri Gulch/Belford Date Climbed: 8/6/01 | |
| Go back down behind Belford to Elkhead pass, makes for a much gentler descent. | |
| Posted Aug 16, 2001 12:19 pm | ||
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