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| jhansen007 | Route Climbed: Standard East RIdge Date Climbed: October 30, 2003  | |
| Climbed with Trevor (see below). Started at the 2WD trailhead. 5 hours up and 3 hours down. Not a ton of snow yet, but just enough to make you slip on every rock. Weather was awesome though, not a cloud all day. | |
| Posted Nov 1, 2004 3:18 pm | ||
| Trevor Simmons | Route Climbed: Merriam Creek/East Slopes Date Climbed: October 30, 2004 | |
| It was a perfectly clear day. Round trip completed in 8:30 from the Frontier Ranch trailhead. We were the only climbers on the mountain. It was a great climb! Climbed with Josh (above). | |
| Posted Oct 31, 2004 9:53 pm | ||
| csmcgranahan | Route Climbed: East from Radio Towers Date Climbed: July 3, 2002 | |
| Second to summit on a great day! This is a massive mountain that seems to stand all alone when viewed from the valley near Buena Vista. | |
| Posted Oct 31, 2004 6:33 pm | ||
| Brad Snider | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: October 14, 2004 | |
| A fantastic, beautiful day with snowy scenery as far as the eye could see! Did not see another soul; had the mountain all to myself! I was going to go over to Tigger as well, but for some weird reason the altitude was bothering me today, and the snow-covered talus was getting a bit annoying as well. Not to mention I had parked at the base of the road, so I had a good long walk out. | |
| Posted Oct 14, 2004 9:44 pm | ||
| mr_g | Route Climbed: East Slopes Date Climbed: September 11, 1999 | |
| Drove up the Mt Princeton road to the Radio Tower area the night before to camp. In the morning, we hiked the road, but missed the turnoff so we ended up traversing over Tigger Peak before getting back on route. A long slog over alot of talus made out legs really sore! | |
| Posted Oct 12, 2004 10:16 am | ||
| Saintgrizzly | Route Climbed: Standard Date Climbed: Summer, 199? | |
| Don't remember exactly when I climbed Princeton, but do recollect that it took me two attempts. The first was via an old trail--probably not in existance any longer, as it was not maintained even then--up the back side (west) and from the south; made it almost all the way, then turned around when confronted with a developing thunderstorm. Which turned north, and completely missed the mountain, meaning I'd done 95 percent of climb, then turned back for nothing! This was so irritating that I returned a week later, and did the summit via the standard route. It was great having Princeton under my belt, because for a few years I could lord it over Aaron--he'd not done the mountain, had no desire to do so, and looked upon the peak as, well, drab--as the only mountain I'd done that he hadn't! Then, for some strange reason he decided to do it, now it's one of his favorite Sawatch summits, and I'm not particularly enamored with it. I'm pretty sure this is all important. | |
| Posted Aug 9, 2004 1:20 am | ||
| kilimanjaro1 | Route Climbed: East Slopes from Mt Princeton Road Date Climbed: July 24, 2004 | |
| Did this peak the day after Antero with my buddy, Chris Calvert. The hike up the road was uneventful ( or should I say boring). The biggest challenge was finding the unmarked turnoff point off the road. We found it with no problem, but ran into several climbers who missed it and wound up going over Tigger Peak by mistake. The only other challenge was trying to pick the right place to depart from contouring on the talus to climb up to the summit ridge. We could see the "mine" ahead of us and knew that was too far so we departed for the summit ridge well in advance. A bit of a scramble up the ridge and we were on top. A fun day for a road hike. | |
| Posted Aug 6, 2004 11:53 pm | ||
| coloradoiceclimber | Route Climbed: Standard Route Date Climbed: August 1, 2004 | |
| CD, Kara, Denali & Yukon (our Samoyeds) and I accidentally detoured over Tigger Peak (13,300) on the way to the summit of Princeton. Opps!!! | |
| Posted Aug 2, 2004 8:56 am | ||
| rob_runkle | Route Climbed: Princeton Trail Date Climbed: July 23, 2004 | |
| Great, simple Sawatch | |
| Posted Aug 1, 2004 3:43 pm | ||
| Speedy | Route Climbed: Mt. Princeton Rd Date Climbed: 09/13/03 | |
| I thought this was a nice hike. I was against hiking a road...if you can drive it, how fun can it be to hike? It was really not too bad. I liked that we could see the whole route almost the entire way. I appreciate the added motivation! What a small world that we met a fellow from the town right next door to us in IL?! | |
| Posted Jul 16, 2004 9:27 pm | ||
| jrf | Route Climbed: Road / Trail (standard) Date Climbed: July 8, 2004 | |
| Pretty easy climb but lots of talus. Seemed to take longer than I expected but it probably had something to do with the 4 fourteeners I'd done in the previous few days more than the climb. Returned over Tigger Peak and down to the road. | |
| Posted Jul 15, 2004 10:30 am | ||
| Larry V | Route Climbed: from radio towers Date Climbed: August 1994 | |
| Weather threatening but dry. The hang gliders were out in force. | |
| Posted Jul 13, 2004 12:15 am | ||
| awillson | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: June 16, 2004 | |
| Great view from the top. Had to traverse several steep snow fields which was scary at times. | |
| Posted Jul 8, 2004 10:00 am | ||
| Ed F | Route Climbed: Mt. Princeton Road / Trail Date Climbed: July 1, 2004 | |
| Pretty easy hike over some loose talus. | |
| Posted Jul 6, 2004 7:41 pm | ||
| DaveC | Route Climbed: standard from the radio tower Date Climbed: july 97 | |
| many people, no wind, dog stole someone's lunch. beautiful but too popular. | |
| Posted May 21, 2004 9:18 pm | ||
| Ryan Kowalski | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: July 30, 2000 | |
| My first 14er! It seems like so long ago too. I remember there was a big forest fire during the time and the whole hike up had a burned pine scent to it. Not my favorite peak in retrospect, but at the time it was quite exhilirating. | |
| Posted Apr 19, 2004 11:56 am | ||
| f360driver | Route Climbed: Radio Towers Date Climbed: July/03 | |
| Very pretty views into the valley below. | |
| Posted Apr 14, 2004 6:50 pm | ||
| RyanS | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: August 20, 2001 | |
| While driving back from our brief trip to the San Juans, prominent Princeton caught our eye, and we climbed it the next day. Nothing eventful happened during the hike in any way, except that we hitched a ride once we returned to the road to escape a heavy downpour. | |
| Posted Apr 8, 2004 1:50 pm | ||
| goat14er | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: June 2000 | |
| This is where it all started. Period. Princeton was the first mountain I went on by my own accord (not getting dragged by parents) - and more importantly, this is the first mountain me, Alex, Richard, and Tim climbed together and it's been a hell of an adventure ever since! | |
| Posted Jan 25, 2004 12:57 am | ||
| hhsilleck | Route Climbed: East ridge Date Climbed: August 2001 | |
| This mountain is prettier from afar than up close. Busy trail. | |
| Posted Jan 10, 2004 7:02 pm | ||
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