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| seth@LOKI | long night/day in a blizzard  Date Climbed: Mar 27, 1993 | |
| This was the beginning of "Capacchino" climbing. We started climbing a midnight fueled by huge gzzlers of capachino. I recall hallucinating below the summit. Not too bad though. Skiing out with our backpack ready loads on skinny leather tele gear was exciting! | |
| Posted Jul 26, 2006 8:07 pm | ||
| lindasyh | Denny Creek TH, Ascend SW Slopes Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2003 | |
| How 'bout some switchbacks? (Whine, whine, whine!) | |
| Posted Jul 24, 2006 10:21 pm | ||
| crzyjt | Denny Creek Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2006 | |
| A pleasant and relatively easy hike. It was actually kind of nice to not be completely beat when back to the car for a change :) 26th 14er and 11th this year. | |
| Posted Jul 23, 2006 3:04 am | ||
| csmcgranahan | Solo success Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2006 | |
| Started at dawn and summited in about 3 hours. What a leg burner! After having the summit to myself (on a Saturday!) for fifteen minutes I descended the east ridge and summited Mascot Peak as well - nice addition. | |
| Posted Jul 16, 2006 12:44 am | ||
| Gahugafuga | First 14er Date Climbed: Jun 8, 2002 | |
| Not the easiest 1st 14er, but it was enough to get me hooked on peak bagging. | |
| Posted Jun 20, 2006 2:51 pm | ||
| thephotohiker | Denny Creek TH, Ascend SW Slopes Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2003 | |
| The weather cooperated, but I must say whoever "engineered" the trail for this route should have taken a refresher course on switchback use. Talk about straight up the mountain? Wow! | |
| Posted Jun 19, 2006 12:18 am | ||
| pacojgarza | Yale from Denny creek Date Climbed: Jun 7, 2006 | |
| After a 3 hr 15 min hike I had the summit all to myself on a quiet morning before the storms. I ran most of the way down that good trail. | |
| Posted Jun 14, 2006 5:16 am | ||
| Dan Leonhard | First 14er Date Climbed: Jul 1, 2001 | |
| For my first 14er had a difficult time keeping up with my bro. The damn guy played soccer for a top ranking D-1 college and was intent on proving it on this hike. It was good to be pushed like that though. Today, I can keep up, especially when I put rocks in his pack. | |
| Posted May 29, 2006 10:31 pm | ||
| shanrickv | Southwest Slopes Date Climbed: May 27, 2006 | |
| Solo climb. Not a technical climb by any stretch, but for some reason my legs were more tired over the 7 miles of the Southwest slopes than they typically have been on other 14ers. Regardless, there were great views from the summit, especially of neighboring Sawatch 14ers Princeton, Antero, Shavano, Tabaguache, Harvard and Columbia. | |
| Posted May 28, 2006 3:53 pm | ||
| scvanm | Tough 1st 14er of the year. Date Climbed: May 19, 2006 | |
| Coming from lowlander county this was a tough 1st 14er of 2006. Roach was right when he said it would test your legs. Mine are toast. What a great view from the summit! | |
| Posted May 21, 2006 11:48 pm | ||
| ClearSkiesAhead | From Denny Creek Date Climbed: Jul 20, 2003 | |
| The hike was longer than I initially thought, but not too bad. Climber with a large group so it took a little longer than it would have otherwise. | |
| Posted Apr 27, 2006 9:18 pm | ||
| km_donovan | Denney Creek Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2002 | |
| The trail on is easy to follow and over hiked and not maintained. For a mid-week climb it was very crowded. There was one large group of kids with some young adult leaders on the trail. Several of the young boys were trying to haul ass up to the summit. It seams that their gas tanks rain low because on my way down having spent 30 minutes on the summit they were still another 45 minutes from the top. | |
| Posted Apr 16, 2006 1:11 pm | ||
| Mountain Jim | West Slopes Date Climbed: Jul 14, 1968 | |
| Climbed from the 4WD road west of the peak. | |
| Posted Mar 23, 2006 7:31 pm | ||
| markhyams | E Ridge Date Climbed: Sep 24, 1995 | |
| Did a big loop on this one, up the east ridge and down the other side. My one and only hitchhike in my life was that day, to get back to my car. Unfortunately it was snowing on top with no visibility. I hear there is a good view. | |
| Posted Mar 4, 2006 8:20 pm | ||
| RMdaytripsgrl | Route: SW Slope Date Climbed: May 27, 2002 | |
| Started from Denny Creek with husband Chad on way back from visit to Crested Butte over Memorial Day weekend. (Like we needed that after three full days of camping/mtn biking/fishing?!) A short and sometimes annoyingly steep/loose trail...but a very pretty one. I remember one tricky & somewhat exposed snowfield section... | |
| Posted Feb 27, 2006 4:19 am | ||
| foreverwild | Birthday Climb Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2004 | |
| Summited on my birthday as a present to myself after two failed winter attempts. | |
| Posted Feb 21, 2006 12:44 am | ||
| Joel Hopper | Route Climbed: SW slopes Date Climbed: Summer 1998 | |
| I climbed with my brother/SP member Woodie Hopper. Great summit day. | |
| Posted Feb 20, 2006 5:50 pm | ||
| Kiefer Thomas | Route Climbed: West Slopes Date Climbed: June 1998 | |
| It took me 7 hours to reach the summit. Exceptionally windy and cold. I was the only one up there all day. I took a couple of rocks and used them as brakes as I sledded down the massive snowfield on the West side. Natually, I got off trail and lost. I hiked down to the creek and followed it out to the road and walked back up the road a few hundred meters to the truck. A very fun day. | |
| Posted Jan 27, 2006 3:49 pm | ||
| sprosseda | Route Climbed: SW route Date Climbed: September 2000 | |
| Very nice mountain. Short, steep, and direct SW route. Nice class 2/3 summit ridge with fun blocks to scramble around. Good views of other Collegiate peaks. | |
| Posted Jan 25, 2006 5:30 pm | ||
| barratt | Route Climbed: Southwest Slopes Date Climbed: 8/13/04 | |
| Joined King Tone as he climbed his 1st 14er. Tougher than we expected but we made it. My 12th 14er. | |
| Posted Jan 19, 2006 9:29 pm | ||
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