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| alpine master | Route Climbed: East slopes Date Climbed: Aug 21 2003  | |
| I drove up Wed. night to camp out at the TH. I started hiking about 5:30am. The trail started out rocky and went up some washes. It was hard to find in the dark. It was pretty steep the whole way. When I got up in the gully SE of the peak I could see it but didn’t realize I was that close. I started to cut trail to save some time. The trail went out of the way to the south. I summited at about 9:45am. I left at 10:00am and headed towards “T”. I left my pack at the saddle and summited the second peak at 11:00am. Instead of returning over the summit I skirted around and went down the east saddle and met the trail. I think I saved quite a bit of time and distance. The tree huggers wouldn’t have like this. On the way down it started to pour. It rained and thundered most of the way down. I got back to the truck at 3:00pm. | |
| Posted Apr 4, 2005 12:04 am | ||
| Old Ickabod | Route Climbed: Blank Gulch Date Climbed: September 2004 | |
| Solo Trip - As most people, I hiked Shavano and Tabeguache together. Weather was great and the aspens were changing. From the summit, the aspens looked like rivers of gold pouring off the mountain. A great time to hike these peaks. | |
| Posted Mar 31, 2005 8:53 am | ||
| ColoradoScott | Route Climbed: Angel of Shavano Couloir Date Climbed: June 11, 1994 | |
| Before reaching the first major switchback in the trail leading up the east ridge, I angled back down into the drainage and bushwhacked thru a not-too-dense section of forest before reaching the snowfield. I then strapped on my crampons, hoisted my axe and kicked upward on the hard snow for an hour and fifteen minutes. Any cornice or continuation of the snow to the saddle had already melted that year, and the arms were almost gone as well, so it was a huff and puff up the talus to the summit. On the descent, I glissaded the Angel, from top to bottom in less than 15 minutes, but my ice axe was mandatory due to the firmness of the snow. | |
| Posted Feb 2, 2005 12:34 pm | ||
| Richrat | Route Climbed: Blank Gulch Trail Date Climbed: August 2004 | |
| Weather was great. I saw a lot of wildlife. | |
| Posted Jan 30, 2005 8:05 pm | ||
| csmcgranahan | Route Climbed: Blank Gulch Trailhead Date Climbed: August, 2003 | |
| This was a great but steep and fairly long (like most Sawatch peaks) hike. This was the only fourteener I summit in 2003. | |
| Posted Oct 31, 2004 9:46 pm | ||
| Natasha | Route Climbed: Shavano-Tabeguache Blank Gulch Date Climbed: July 18, 2004 | |
| Great day, weather held out nicely, especially since we got a bit of a late start, but not too bad. | |
| Posted Oct 14, 2004 11:45 pm | ||
| mr_g | Route Climbed: East Slopes Date Climbed: August 14, 1999 | |
| Camped the night before at Blank Gulch, and ascended the Angel Coulier to the ridge. Very windy once we hit the ridge, and climbed to talus to the summit. We were going to traverse to Tabeguache, but we developed blisters so we opted to skip it this trip. | |
| Posted Oct 12, 2004 10:18 am | ||
| mtnhiker13 | Route Climbed: Blank Cabin Trailhead Date Climbed: August 15, 2004 | |
| The day started out quite nice but once we got above treeline the clouds were boiling up. We pushed on for the summit and stayed very briefly while we descended in a hail storm. We booked back to treeline, unable to squeeze Tab in on the same day. | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2004 10:32 am | ||
| Saintgrizzly | Route Climbed: Angel route Date Climbed: September, 1998 | |
| Climbed with Aaron and Jim Lierman, just a couple days after doing Tabaguache. Interesting, because we'd done Tabaguache in a snowstorm, but the weather on Shavano was quite nice. Nice mountain. Wonderful aspen grove to start, and finish, with. | |
| Posted Aug 10, 2004 8:57 pm | ||
| Adria Moersen | Route Climbed: Blank Gulch Date Climbed: July 29th | |
| Left the car at 4:30 a.m.; most vertical I had ever done in a single day. Tried to complete Tabegauche but the weather chase us off. | ||
| Posted Jul 31, 2004 9:21 pm | ||
| bernardhohman | Route Climbed: Blank Gulch Date Climbed: July 29, 2004 | |
| Great early morning start and summit. Very busy for a weekday. Met some Oklahoma guys working on their first 14er. Storms chased us away from Tabegauche, though. | |
| Posted Jul 30, 2004 8:31 pm | ||
| Speedy | Route Climbed: Blank Gulch Date Climbed: 05/29/04 | |
| Climbed up a decent trail hoping to glissade the Angel. Interesting day. It's supposed to be the first weekend of the summer and we couldn't even see our hands in front of our faces!! Snow! What a riot. And the WIND! WHOOEY! It was a doozy! The weather was so nasty that we didn't do Tabaguache, which is a REAL kick in the shorts...there's no way to get up there without going over Shavano first, unless you go for miles and miles into Brown's Creek, but that's a story for another day... | |
| Posted Jul 15, 2004 11:58 pm | ||
| awillson | Route Climbed: Angel of Shavano Date Climbed: June 15, 2004 | |
| I climbed the Angel snowfield with my brother Brent. It snowed on us for 15 minutes on the way down. The Angel makes for a great glissade. | |
| Posted Jul 8, 2004 9:57 am | ||
| Ratballs | Route Climbed: from Blank Gulch trailhead via Angel Snowfield. Date Climbed: Mid-October, 2000 | |
| This was a cold, windy one in hunting season. An interesting (to me) momentary intersection of three lives happened on my descent, about which more here. | |
| Posted Jun 23, 2004 6:10 pm | ||
| mountainmota | Route Climbed: Angel of Shavano Date Climbed: March 2003 | |
| Nice easy snow climb! | |
| Posted Jun 15, 2004 7:18 pm | ||
| Ryan Kowalski | Route Climbed: Angel of Shavano Date Climbed: June 02, 2004 | |
| A gorgeous day and a wonderful climb. The glissade down was fast and fun. The only way to climb Shavano in my opinion. Didn't need crampons, but they would have made things easier | |
| Posted Jun 3, 2004 2:42 pm | ||
| Bryan W | Route Climbed: Blank Gulch/Angel Descent Date Climbed: 5/29/04 | |
| Turned into a long day with steady 25 mph winds, gusting to 50, driving snow/ice, and post holing once above 12,800'. Could not see Tabeguache from the summit. TR to come. | |
| Posted Jun 1, 2004 6:31 pm | ||
| DaveC | Route Climbed: east ridge Date Climbed: june 01 | |
| the angel was but a strip. camped just below it. windy as hell, but a nice day for 2 peaks, and finishing the sawatch range. | |
| Posted May 21, 2004 9:24 pm | ||
| leukemic | Route Climbed: Angel Date Climbed: May 19,2004 | |
| Perfect weather and snow conditions. 1800 ft glissade from summit to base of Angel. Snowshoes helpful on bushwack descent. | ||
| Posted May 21, 2004 1:58 am | ||
| goat14er | Route Climbed: Blank Gulch Date Climbed: August 2001 | |
| This hike was even better than I thought it would be. A thunderstrom came in and made us run down the mountain faster than we would have liked, but that's Colorado in the summer for ya! Great views of the Arkansas and San Luis valleys. | |
| Posted May 12, 2004 3:04 pm | ||
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