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| Foxy Long Bottoms | Route Climbed: Denny Creek Date Climbed: 8/03  | |
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| Posted Jun 22, 2005 10:27 am | ||
| ktiffany22 | Route Climbed: Southwest Slopes Date Climbed: June 18, 2005 | |
| WOW! What an amazing day to climb! There was not a cloud in the sky! It was a WARM hike, and we spent 2 hours on the summit! There's nothing like a beautiful kick back day on the summit of a mountain with good company:-) The glassade down was incredible! Very smooth, good speed, and had fun belly-flopping and going backwards! | |
| Posted Jun 20, 2005 7:18 pm | ||
| Brian Kalet | Route Climbed: Denny Creek Date Climbed: August 29, 2004 | |
| Sweet Climb! | |
| Posted Apr 14, 2005 3:10 pm | ||
| James C | Route Climbed: Denny Creek Date Climbed: July 6, 2004 | |
| Fun Climb. Did more on the legs than I expected. Best part is from the saddle to the summit, the rock hopping is great. Sweet view from summit | |
| Posted Apr 4, 2005 7:17 pm | ||
| Old Ickabod | Route Climbed: Southwest Ridge Date Climbed: August 2003 | |
| Solo Trip - Steeper than I expected, but a great hike. Reached the summit by 11am and still got caught in rain, thunder, and lightning above and below treeline. Wow, that thunder rocked me! Good times! | |
| Posted Mar 30, 2005 6:38 pm | ||
| altitude14er | Route Climbed: Denny Creek Trailhead Date Climbed: 10/2004 | |
| Little snow existed this early October and the hike was steep and short | |
| Posted Mar 20, 2005 7:56 pm | ||
| edlins | Route Climbed: Southwest Ridge Date Climbed: March 19, 2005 | |
| Beautiful winter day (technically), felt like spring, nice long hike, fun!! | |
| Posted Mar 20, 2005 12:51 pm | ||
| bigwilly | Route Climbed: Southwest Ridge Date Climbed: September 26, 2004 | |
| My sixth Fourteener. It was the most spectacular view I've ever seen from the summit of a fourteener. It was a beautiful day for the aspens to. A great climb that's well worth the more than 4,000 ft. of climbing. | |
| Posted Mar 10, 2005 9:36 pm | ||
| Asphazell | Route Climbed: Southwest Ridge Date Climbed: November 2003 | |
| Nice trail but becomes very steep up to the summit ridge! Some fun scrambling on the ridge heading east to the summit. Many opt to simply go around the scrambling section just below and south of the ridge. | |
| Posted Mar 1, 2005 12:31 pm | ||
| Ratballs | Route Climbed: from Avalanche Gulch trailhead via East Ridge Date Climbed: May, 2002 | |
| Climbed this as an overnight, with my roomie. We camped on the nub atop the east ridge, at about 12,000 feet. Pitched a tent but didn't use it. We should have, as I was woken in the middle of the night by a pika gnawing on the side of my Thermarest. Bloody rodents: not only did it ruin that night's sleep, but it took me a month to find and patch all the holes. | |
| Posted Feb 22, 2005 4:48 pm | ||
| ColoradoScott | Route Climbed: South Slopes from Denny Gulch Date Climbed: June 28, 1986 | |
| As I remember, it was a beautiful early summer day and once we left the timberline the trail faded out, but we continued up the steep tundra to the saddle south of the summit and then made our way to the top. On the descent we didn't locate the start of the trail at timberline, but found it thru the trees down near the brook where we had left it. | |
| Posted Feb 3, 2005 12:38 pm | ||
| wwells | Route Climbed: Southwest Slopes Date Climbed: August 3, 2004 | |
| Weather conditions deteriorated rapidly once I got onto Yale's steep southwest shoulder. The wind and sleet were challenging, as was the short scramble to the summit. Great views of Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton from the top once the clouds cleared. | |
| Posted Feb 2, 2005 1:17 am | ||
| Richrat | Route Climbed: Denny Creek Trail Date Climbed: August 2002 | |
| I don't remember much about this mountain other than gaining a lot of elevation in a short amount of time. The view was unbelievable. | |
| Posted Jan 30, 2005 8:39 pm | ||
| s_tuning@msn.com | Route Climbed: Southwest Slopes (Standard) Date Climbed: 10/19/04 | |
| Beautiful day. Broke the rules and started at noon. Summitted at 1500. Very cold and windy, but snow was scarce and the trail was in great shape. Defintely no snow gear required yet. | |
| Posted Oct 20, 2004 12:53 am | ||
| mr_g | Route Climbed: Southwest Slopes / Ridge Date Climbed: April 22, 2000 | |
| This was my second attempt - my first one got bogged down by too much snow. This time, we started out at 4am to ensure we made the summit. Good thing - the weather moved in around 9am and we heard and saw lightning and thunder, which caused us to rush back down from the summit. It then snowed on us all of the way back to the trailhead. It took us 8 hours round trip, and we were extremely spent when we made it back to the car. A long 7 miles! | |
| Posted Oct 12, 2004 10:00 am | ||
| Brad Snider | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: July 11, 2004 | |
| My 8th Fourteener. Great view but crowded summit. Also climbed 'Mascot Peak' where there was plenty of solitude. | |
| Posted Sep 21, 2004 9:39 pm | ||
| belexes | Route Climbed: Denny Creek Date Climbed: September 6, 2004 | |
| I left Denver at about 4 AM and arrived at the trailhead at about 7:30. It was quite chilly at the trailhead, but it warmed up nicely once the sun came over the ridge. We had glorious weather: almost perfectly clear all day, with very little wind. Someone in a small plane buzzed the summit a few times. The aspens are just starting to turn up there. | |
| Posted Sep 7, 2004 12:05 pm | ||
| KChiker | Route Climbed: Denny Creek Date Climbed: July 25th 2003 | |
| Drove into the campsite from Kansas at 2am the night before. Trailhead by 8am the next morning. Good scramble near the summit. My first 14er. | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2004 4:28 pm | ||
| Chris | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: August 22, 2004 | |
| Nice hike, good scenic route. East Ridge has some pretty loose sections up to point 13,420 so tread carefully to avoid scaring the fragile areas. The newly rerouted section of Colorado Trail from Silver Creek TH to the beaver ponds at around 11,100' or so has to be the longest stretch of trail w/o a swichback I've hiked... it seemed to go on and on and on (although it's an excellent trail). | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2004 12:08 pm | ||
| kilimanjaro1 | Route Climbed: Southwest Slopes from Denny Creek TH Date Climbed: July 28, 2004 | |
| Left Colorado Springs at 3AM and got on the trail right at 6AM. Very nice day and great scenery. A bit of scrambling over and around a butress on the summit ridge made me be extremely cautious as I somehow lost the cairns and was just beelining it for the summit. On the summit I met two very nice Air Force Academy cadets and we hiked down to the trailhead together. We parted ways at the trailhead and then I finished up with some well deserved post climb "rehydration" at Coyote Cantina. | |
| Posted Aug 7, 2004 12:10 am | ||
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