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| Sarah Simon | So, how 'bout that summit block  Date Climbed: Jul 17, 2001 | |
| Creepy final summit block. | |
| Posted Apr 19, 2007 7:35 pm | ||
| Anya Jingle | Via Southwest Slopes Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2003 | |
| A pleasant hike to an impressive looking peak. We managed to descend below the treeline before it started to rain and thunder. To my surprise, many people were still heading up at that time. The slideshow from our day up there is here: Mount Yale via southwest Slopes | |
| Posted Jan 23, 2007 6:28 am | ||
| boisedoc | steep Date Climbed: Aug 5, 1990 | |
| The older route was very steep hiking | |
| Posted Dec 17, 2006 4:41 pm | ||
| Mike Mc | Denny Creek Date Climbed: Sep 24, 2006 | |
| # 24 Quite a bit of early season snow | |
| Posted Dec 8, 2006 4:09 pm | ||
| BalletBoy | Denny Creek Route: Perfect Day Date Climbed: Jun 24, 2006 | |
| Perfect day for a hike up Mount Yale. Everything was a spectacular green at the end of June. | |
| Posted Nov 11, 2006 7:46 pm | ||
| winterfae | Denny Creek Date Climbed: Jun 24, 2006 | |
| This was my 2nd 14er and was a test on the legs especially on only 2 hours of sleep, but passed the test and made great time. Was a beautiful day, spent a good hour at the top enjoying the view and companionship of fellow hikers, some that I met on the top. Truly enjoy meeting other hikers on summits and hearing their stories and experiences. As for the tired legs, rewarded them with a soak in the hot springs down the road from the collegiate campgrounds! | |
| Posted Oct 24, 2006 2:01 am | ||
| royswkr | Denny Date Climbed: Sep 12, 1993 | |
| Found new FS trail up gulch the guidebooks said to avoid | ||
| Posted Sep 22, 2006 2:31 pm | ||
| lwillson83 | My 6th 14er! Date Climbed: Sep 10, 2006 | |
| Beautiful climb with snow above 12,800 ft. | |
| Posted Sep 21, 2006 10:51 pm | ||
| swm88er | Long Ago | |
| I hiked Yale several years ago. I didn’t think it was hard. False summits were frustrating, as I remember | |
| Posted Sep 19, 2006 10:03 pm | ||
| whatisis | Perfect Day Date Climbed: Sep 13, 2006 | |
| What an awesome day. Not too hot, no snow, no wind, and the trees were changing. | |
| Posted Sep 19, 2006 4:56 pm | ||
| awillson | Cold snowy climb Date Climbed: Sep 10, 2006 | |
| There was about a foot of snow at the summit left over from Fridays storm. A little slipery, but a great climb none the less. It was good to see some snow on the peaks. | |
| Posted Sep 15, 2006 6:20 pm | ||
| bjd5578 | A snowy 20th 14er Date Climbed: Sep 10, 2006 | |
| After being turned back on Princeton the day before, it felt good to tackle Mt. Yale. This was a tough hike, and the snow above 12,000 feet certainly slowed us down, but it just made the top all the more beautiful! Not a bad way to end the 14er season for me, and my 20th 14er at that! | |
| Posted Sep 14, 2006 3:36 am | ||
| roozers42 | Route Climbed: from Denny Creek Date Climbed: Sep 4, 2006 | |
| One of the most beautiful days on a 14er summit with a great partner - Sonja Lessman! | |
| Posted Sep 11, 2006 4:27 am | ||
| rleclair | East Slopes Date Climbed: Sep 4, 2006 | |
| This was a return summit attempt for me as 4 weeks earlier, my attempt on the East Slopes turned into a medical emergency for my climbing partner - altitude sickness with signs of ataxia. So, 4 weeks later, my friends Pamela, Pete, and Nancy started at 7:30 AM (Labor Day) on yet another glorious Colorado blue sky day. The trip up to 11,900 and the saddle was uneventful - more of a warm-up really. Heading west of the saddle following the ridgeline went well - past 12,500' where I had to turn around earlier the previous month. The East Slopes are a Class 2/Class 3- with sometimes difficult route finding but it is not terribly difficult if one stays on or near the ridgeline. We summitted in 5 hours and after spending 30-45 minutes on the summit decided to take the standard route down as it was more time efficient. Some good souls at the trailhead drove me back to the Avalanche Gulch TH in order to retrieve my car and bring cold beer/chips/salsa to my weary friends. All in all, a great day! Yale is a fun mountain although the standard route is not my most favorite trail - do the East Slopes! | |
| Posted Sep 7, 2006 4:02 am | ||
| bc44caesar | East Ridge (from the South) Date Climbed: Aug 26, 2006 | |
| Thunderstormed the whole night before. Woke up at 5:30, still raining. Finally started at 7:25 and got rained on the whole way to the saddle, then snowed on on the way up to the summit. Better weather down to the saddle (still couldn't see anything though), but then rained on all the way back to the car. A couple lightning strikes very close by (you know, simultaneous flash-boom) with people still up high on the mountain! 3h20m to the summit, 5h40m RT. | |
| Posted Aug 28, 2006 2:52 pm | ||
| Vagabond Manifesto | A leg burner Date Climbed: Aug 2, 2006 | |
| Climbed the east ridge--fun scrambling on the crest, more rugged than I expected. Only one other party on the ridge, but LOTS of people coming up the standard route on the other side. | |
| Posted Aug 25, 2006 6:06 am | ||
| apierce | A New Favorite Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2006 | |
| Climbed the West Slope from Denny Creek starting at 6 a.m. and summitted by 9:30. We were among the first to summitt that day and luckily avoided the crowds that were coming up as we descended. Great trail and a greater views on top of many surrounding 14ers. Fun scramble along the ridge if you stay on the very top. | |
| Posted Aug 10, 2006 8:07 pm | ||
| smason505 | Route: denny creek ascent with denny gulch descent Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2000 | |
| The ascent was fairly straightforward, lots of vert but nothing bad. We decided to descend the old route down denny gulch and found a few nice surprises. The moves to get off the peak and down into the gulch are class 3+ where we dropped. Nothing too bad, but much harder than it looked from the summit. The trail through this gulch hadnt been maintained in several years (that would be another 5 years now) and we had to bushwack for 3 miles. After running out of water two miles in, the final mile out was terrible, but it dropped us right at our campsite. | |
| Posted Aug 10, 2006 6:36 pm | ||
| cftbq | West ridge from Kroenke Lake Date Climbed: Sep 15, 1976 | |
| This is another "catch-up" posting. Yale was my 3rd 14er. Uncertain about the exact date. Camped at Kroenke Lake, and hiked west to the Continental Divide in the morning, then south and east to the summit. It was chilly with very light snow falling. My brother bailed a few hundred feet from the top. I bushwhacked down the north slopes and got back to our camp about noon, then packed up and headed off for Harvard, while he headed down the trail and home. | |
| Posted Aug 4, 2006 11:17 pm | ||
| 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 | ||
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