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| f360driver | Route Climbed: Angel Of Shavano Trailhead Date Climbed: September/03  | |
| Good hike. Perfect weather. | |
| Posted Apr 14, 2004 6:51 pm | ||
| RyanS | Route Climbed: Blank Gulch route Date Climbed: May 9, 2002 | |
| The first of many 14er summits for Erin and I during extraordinarily dry 2002. I took a nice scounting drive the weekend before, and being more or less a mountain newbie, I asked a local in Poncha Springs where Shavano was because I couldn't see anything that looked like the Angel on a nearby peak. The local laughed at me and said that it had been mostly melted out for over a month. We encountered no snow either above or below treeline during our hike. On the windy summit, we considered the traverse to Tabeguache, but we were out of shape, and wimped out. We bagged Tab a few weeks later. | |
| Posted Apr 9, 2004 12:28 pm | ||
| carloselbrus | Route Climbed: Angel of Shavano Date Climbed: Jun 11 2000 | |
| With Mike and Do. | |
| Posted Mar 2, 2004 11:17 am | ||
| hhsilleck | Route Climbed: Angel Date Climbed: June 2003 | |
| The angel was nearly dry in early June 2001 ... wait for a good snow year. | |
| Posted Jan 10, 2004 6:57 pm | ||
| EcoRacer | Route Climbed: Blank Gulch Trailhead Date Climbed: October 17, 2003 | |
| My first 14er! Being a flatlander from the midwest I was at a bit of a disadvantage.....luckily I had spent the previous week in Moab mountain biking so I was somewhat acclimated to altitude. I huffed & puffed my way to the summit.....what a view!! Well worth the effort. I decided to save Tabeguache for another day and am glad I did since I ran out of water just a few hundred feet down from the summit. 100 ozs of aqua gone in just 5 hours! Round trip was 8 hours.....5 up and 3 down. Looking forward to returning and bagging Tabeguache the next time! | ||
| Posted Dec 16, 2003 3:23 pm | ||
| Jim Clarke | Route Climbed: Jennings Creek Date Climbed: June 28 1997 | |
| Climbed Shavano first than traversed to Tabeguache then back. Long day with a steep descent. | |
| Posted Oct 13, 2003 11:42 am | ||
| jrf | Route Climbed: Blank Gulch Trailhead Date Climbed: July 4th, 2003 | |
| Beautiful way to spend the 4th of July. Steep but manageable hike with a great view in every direction. I didn't go over to Tabaguache this day, all the more reason to come back though. I'd be interested in doing this with the Angel in better shape. It looks like it would be a fun climb. | |
| Posted Oct 5, 2003 8:18 pm | ||
| rob_runkle | Route Climbed: The Blank Gulch Trailhead Date Climbed: July 25, 2004 | |
| Great 2 banger to end 7 days of 14ers. | |
| Posted Jul 30, 2003 7:18 pm | ||
| charms | Route Climbed: Southeast Ridge Date Climbed: June 20, 2003 | |
| We started out on the wrong trailhead, the Angel of Shavano, but decided to go ahead and start from there anyway. The next mistake we made was larger, but made for a more enjoyable climb. We began by hiking north on the Colorado Trail to meet up with the Mount Shavano Trail, but we turned west to soon onto a jeep trail that led to a mining area. Thinking that this was the Mount Shavano Trail, and thinking that it was apparenty rarely used, we bushwacked our way out of the trees onto the southeast ridge of Shavano. As soon as we reached the tree line, we noticed the Mount Shavano Trail on the south face of the ridge to our north. We continued our climb up the ridge to Espirit Point then crossed north towards the Shavano saddle. Moving quickly because a 10:00 am thunderstorm was brewing. We got caught in the hail/snow storm just above the Shavano saddle and sat out the storm under a rain poncho. We then climbed the last 800 ft to Shavano. With another line of showers approaching we opted to skip Tabeguache and headed down the Shavano Trail. | |
| Posted Jun 21, 2003 8:11 pm | ||
| big_g | Mt Shavano Trail up / Angle down Date Climbed: May 30, 2003 | |
| Climbed up the Mt Shavano Trail and glissaded the snowfield. Awesome 1,000 ft glissade! The snow was almost too soft but it made the slide very comfortable. :) | |
| Posted Jun 1, 2003 6:15 pm | ||
| Kane | Route Climbed: Standard east slopes from Blank Gulch Date Climbed: 1996 | |
| Shavano is a steep hike with a ton of vertical. If I were ever to comeback to this mountain I would really be up for an ascent up the Angel of Shavano route. | |
| Posted May 27, 2003 7:04 pm | ||
| Colonelpyat | Route Climbed: Blank Gulch Date Climbed: September 2, 2002 | |
| We got a 3:30 AM start on this one and managed to pick up a solo climber in the parking lot. It worked out well because my usual climbing partner is too cheap or too lazy to buy his own headlamp. We now had two lights in our group! A perfect day that included two separate hours on the summit and a trip over to Tabeguache in between. | |
| Posted Feb 28, 2003 4:32 am | ||
| Grant | Route Climbed: Angle of the Shavano TH -9,180' Date Climbed: June 30, 2001 | |
| It started out on the Colorado Trail for two miles and I would recommend this part for anyone. It was one of the most beautiful sections of a trail that I’ve ever been on. Of course the time of the year makes a big difference. Everything was green and it was peaceful through there. After the first two miles I ran into another parking lot. I guess I didn’t read my book well enough because this was the main trailhead parking lot – oh well. So up to Shavano I went. There were a lot of people on their way up also. I was really moving today passing about a dozen people. The trail up to Shavano’s Saddle wasn’t that steep but after that was the last 800 vertical feet up to the summit which was the steepest and hardest part of the day. At the summit there were about 10 people and the clouds to the west were building. I was a little tired so I opted not to do Tabeguache. I sat for about 20 minutes and then I went down. The hike back to the car was very long, and there was some thunder going on to the south so I couldn’t wait to get back to camp. | |
| Posted Jan 17, 2003 12:57 pm | ||
| granddeity | Route Climbed: Blank Gulch Date Climbed: September 7,2002 | |
| We got to the trailhead at about 0730, the weather was good, except for a few clouds building near the summit. We started up the trail. The aspens were just turning and were beautiful. Near the summit the sky was very gray. We got to the summit at about 1145. We saw a total of two groups of people on the moutain. We were the only ones on the summit. We had lunch, and I proposed to my girlfriend. She said yes, we were happy. The weather was getting a little scary so we decided not to do Tabeguache. As we hit treeline on our way down we started hearing thunder, then we got rain and hail. We got back to the car at about 1425. We drove back to Bailey got some dinner, and then soaked for a while at the Mt Princeton hot springs. Overall one of the best days of hiking I have had. | ||
| Posted Nov 2, 2002 10:41 pm | ||
| rmjwinters | Route Climbed: Traverse from Tabeguache Date Climbed: June 10 2000 | |
| Nice traverse with good weather. | |
| Posted Oct 5, 2002 10:03 pm | ||
| charles97 | Route Climbed: Angel of Shavano Trail Date Climbed: September 1, 2002 | |
| Nice day on the mountain, no afternoon storms to speak of. Very windy after the saddle point though. The Angel Trail is a good work out, consistently steep pretty much the whole way. Started at 8 am, summitted at 11 am. Went over to Tabeguache afterwards. First of 10 fourteeners in 6 days. #9 overall. | |
| Posted Sep 17, 2002 2:18 pm | ||
| Rich Huss | Route Climbed: Old and long forgotten Date Climbed: Sept 15-2002 | |
| From Angle of Shavano trailhead followed trail thought initial switchbacks and then strait up following game trails tending toward the right At tree line you’re on a large open hill side, Mt Shavano trail is visible to the North across the south fork of Squaw Creek. The hillside turns to nice ridge hiking on stable scree with remnants of an old trail marked with sticks in some place and in others the scree has been arranged to make a trail. Possible an old CMC project? This ridge joins the main Shavano trail at the saddle below the summit. We took the ridge to Tabeguache and then down the old Jennings Cr. Trail (it is steep and loose in places and splits into multiple indistinct lines, i.e. route finding required) and then down the road 4 miles to finish the round trip. The weather was perfect, there were a few easily avoidable patches of snow. About 16mile round trip and 6000’ vert. I would like to thank the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative for the massive amount of work to the lower part of Jennings Cr. Trail and in general for all their good work maintaining and restoring trails to help limit environmental damage and enhance the experience for all.. Check out 14ers.org | |
| Posted Sep 17, 2002 1:14 pm | ||
| Ed F | Route Climbed: Blank Gulch Trailhead-Shavano Trail Date Climbed: August 25, 2002 | |
| A nice hike with a good trail almost to the summit. My girlfriend's first fourteener, so I saved Tabeguache for another day. | |
| Posted Sep 14, 2002 8:53 pm | ||
| xskier77 | Route Climbed: Jenning Creak Trailhead Date Climbed: July 27, 2002 | |
| Made the traverse to Shavano from Tabeguache in 40 minutes. Was on the summit at 1:50 and luckily there was no afternoon thunderstorm brewing. Only saw three others on the summit probably due to the time of day. got back on the trail 10 minutes later and was back to the car at 4:50. Fun day and two more 14ers to mark off the list. | |
| Posted Jul 28, 2002 12:13 am | ||
| DaFreshman | Route Climbed: Jennings Creek (via Tabeguache) Date Climbed: July 13, 2002 | |
| I guess I'm a minority opinion on this one - I hated Jennings Creek. The trail starts immediately with a LONG, frustrating scree slope, which seems to double in length for the return trip in the afternoon. I'm no stranger to strenuous climbing, but this section of trail is just plain ugly. I also did Brown's Creek a few years back and thought it was MUCH better. Take it for what its worth, I guess. | ||
| Posted Jul 23, 2002 11:22 pm | ||
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