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| shanahan96 | the princeton road, over and over | |
| 2/5/11- long winter climb up the princeton road(12.4 mi/5695' vertical, ~13.5 hrs). i forgot how horrid the never ending talus slog can be from tigger on. think i'm done with this mountain, or this particular route. 8/3/04- a beautiful mountain to behold from a distance, but up close it is just an unpleasant scree slog. save this one for winter folks! jamie | |
| Posted Aug 14, 2005 4:14 pm | ||
| myrone | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: Sunday July 31, 2005  | |
| Started up at 6:42AM from about a mile below where the trail breaks from the road. Very few people on this trail passed two people at the ridge and proceeded to the summit at 8:36 which I had to myself for 20mins. Perfect weather just a whisper of a breeze and clear skies all around. Headed back down at 9:00AM and back to the car at 10:40 with a few groups of people coming up. My 15th 14'er and another beautiful Colorado morning. Sweet!! | |
| Posted Aug 1, 2005 10:01 am | ||
| ktiffany22 | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: July 30, 2005 | |
| Can you say ROCKY? ...nothing like a day of hopping scree! The last 1,000 feet vertical will get your heart a pumpin! Met some nice people up there.... but I have a question, do you think it's okay to make cell phone calls from the top, have your dog poop and attack other dogs, and display a large rifle on your hip??? ....didn't think so. People, we hike to enjoy the beauty and get away from the noise and the ruckus, can I get an amen on this one?!:-) | |
| Posted Jul 31, 2005 12:36 am | ||
| alpine master | Route Climbed: East Slopes Date Climbed: Aug. 22nd 2003 | |
| Climbed way hungover. Kind of boring since some of the hike is on a road. | |
| Posted Jul 24, 2005 5:19 pm | ||
| jnoffsinger | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: May 27, 2003 | |
| Long day in the boots, but wow what a view. #7 for me, but my first collegiate. A short visit on Tigger Peak was well worth the side trip. Shane, UJ, and Gawdun completed the journey. | |
| Posted Jul 18, 2005 10:19 pm | ||
| Foxy Long Bottoms | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: 7/17/05 | |
| Started the hike from the top of the road. We traversed the ridgeline. By doing so, we avoided lots of people and got to see some pretty cool views along the way. Anyone know what the peak is that you hike up first to gaine the ridge up to Princeton? Please let me know. Thanks. Oh yeah. . .# 23 for me too. | |
| Posted Jul 17, 2005 8:13 pm | ||
| skiitswitch | Route Climbed: Mt Princeton TH, East slopes Date Climbed: July 12, 2005 | |
| Started at 11,000 just above the radio towers. Ate breakfast on top of the 4WD trail at 12,500 and came back down to hike. There is only one spot on the trail that really requires 4WD and high clearance and is at the 2nd switchback above the radio station. Got to the top in 2:40. Prob the easiest 14er I've done. Trip report to come | |
| Posted Jul 14, 2005 7:59 pm | ||
| doumall | Route Climbed: East Slopes Date Climbed: July, 16 2004 | |
| 23rd 14er! | |
| Posted Jul 13, 2005 2:49 pm | ||
| CWFry | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: 7/9/05 | |
| Tell us, there's a lot of talus. Cheesus was with us though, so the day passed with many laughs. | |
| Posted Jul 11, 2005 5:04 pm | ||
| shanrickv | Route Climbed: Mt. Princeton Trail Date Climbed: June 26, 2005 | |
| Another 14er checked off the list with good friend Alan. It was a beautiful day with some incredible cloud formations over the ridge between Princeton and Tigger Peak. | |
| Posted Jun 27, 2005 12:40 am | ||
| keenez01 | Route Climbed: Grouse Canyon Trailhead Date Climbed: August 8, 2002 | |
| I took this trail instead of the standard route because I wanted something a little more difficult. The trail becomes very faint after a mile or two. I had a very hard time sticking with the trail. I ened up forging my own path that fallowed the ridge over Tiger Peak and eventually to the summit. | |
| Posted Jun 26, 2005 2:53 pm | ||
| Foxy Long Bottoms | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: 8/04 | |
| Climbed this one interesting summer night after work. In the beginning of the hike, we encountered really warm weather, then wind, then lightning and then snow. I had to turn around about 500' from the summit. . .maybe less. But that's good because I made it back to Denver just in time to go to work the next day. Must do again but to the top this time! Another night slog would be good too! | |
| Posted Jun 21, 2005 11:30 am | ||
| drewcmf | Route Climbed: East Date Climbed: October 2004 | |
| Solo night hike. Nice bivy in the forest. | |
| Posted Jun 9, 2005 3:19 pm | ||
| climber514 | Route Climbed: from radio towers Date Climbed: May 28, 2005 | |
| Nice day for a 14er... Road will be passable to trail head in a week or two. A few snowdrifts exist 600 about yards up the road from radio towers. You don't need snowshoes on this one right now... We left them behind... Hiking takes you across 3 snowfields. Each snowfield was about 50-75 yards across. The third snowfield had slightly softer snow and you may posthole abit. Great area to practice self-arrest (esp. snowfields #1 and #2)... This is a fun boulder hop for the most part. Would like to check out the old mine, at about 13,000ft... sometime. We saw about 7 people during the day. Great shorter hike, with alot of stellar views. | ||
| Posted May 30, 2005 9:15 pm | ||
| Brian Kalet | Route Climbed: East ridge (normal route) Date Climbed: Summer 2003 | |
| Sweet Day! | |
| Posted Apr 14, 2005 2:54 pm | ||
| easleygone | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: July 1992 | |
| This is such a huge mountain, I'm just proud to say I stood on top of it! | ||
| Posted Apr 4, 2005 11:03 pm | ||
| Old Ickabod | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: October 2003 | |
| Solo Trip - Woke up at the butt-crack of dawn and drove from Parker Colorado to the trailhead. It was raining and I couldn't see much of the upper mountain,but figured I'd go for it. I parked at the towers and hiked for a while in the rain and mist. It was kind of fun and then it got better around 13,200 when the rain turned to snow. Yeeeeaaaaahhhh! It was a bit slippery on some of the rocks leading to the summit, but it made for a great photo. | |
| Posted Mar 31, 2005 10:23 pm | ||
| Ratballs | Route Climbed: from Radio Towers Date Climbed: August, 2001 | |
| From parking at the Radio Towers, I hiked up the road all the way to its end and consequently climbed the wrong damned mountain (Tigger Peak). I thought something was wrong when I topped out so soon and saw another hulking grey mass not a mile distant and a lot higher. Embarrassed? You could say so. After the Traverse of Shame, and on the eventual climb up to the (real) Princeton, I fell in love with a woman wearing neon orange running shorts who was climbing ahead of me. I chatted with her and her friends for a half-hour on top and never did ask her name. Bloody idiot. | |
| Posted Feb 21, 2005 9:40 pm | ||
| ColoradoScott | Route Climbed: East slopes/Mount Princeton Road Date Climbed: July 9, 1989 | |
| Another long haul up from the 8,900' base of the mountain without use of 4WD. It was a very hot day, with the sun relentless on the road. Not the most demanding or interesting climb tho'. I was a bit disappointed give the beauty of this mountain. The talus approach to the ridge was frustrating. Hopefully there is a constructed trail thru this loose area now. | |
| Posted Feb 3, 2005 12:43 pm | ||
| Richrat | Route Climbed: Mount Princeton Road Trail Date Climbed: July 2004 | |
| This was the classic weather example. Sunny and hot to start, storm comes in and sleet at the summit. | |
| Posted Jan 30, 2005 8:41 pm | ||
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