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| jsk8 | snowboard descent  Date Climbed: Feb 2, 1993 | |
| the winter of 1992-93 featured more snow than usual on Nevado - some areas (Canada del Oso) still had snow in May. I descended on snowboard from just below the summit. | ||
| Posted Feb 18, 2013 1:00 am | ||
| Laron | Rim Traverse | |
| Did a complete rim traverse. Super fun. | |
| Posted Aug 8, 2012 8:42 am | ||
| jvonrueden | complete rim traverse Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2012 | |
| I did the rim traverse today, it tools us about 5 hours including lunch and breaks. Rock pro is completely unnecessary, it's only 4th class scrambling. Snow gear isn't necessary in this season, two of my partners used below the ankle boots. | |
| Posted Jul 24, 2012 7:19 pm | ||
| Shirley Lam | Rim Traverse Date Climbed: Feb 2, 2011 | |
| Completed the rim traverse with Bighornmonkey. Beautiful views, great conditions, fun climbing! Yannick wrote a trip report of the climb on our blog: http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/hobos/1/1296719203/tpod.html | |
| Posted Feb 3, 2011 1:37 pm | ||
| bighornmonkey | Rim traverse Date Climbed: Feb 2, 2011 | |
| did the rim traverse in perfect conditions, with trail running shoes...no snow at all! Awesome views. We could see Popo and Izta in a distance, both looked snow-free as well. | |
| Posted Feb 3, 2011 1:30 pm | ||
| logikal | First High Altitude Summit Date Climbed: Jan 1, 2009 | |
| My first mountain above 6000 feet. Hiking to the crater from the entrance gate after only being in mexico for 12 hours was one hell of an introduction to high altitude climbing. I felt like my legs were made of lead. The following day i summited via some talus field on the outer rim. | |
| Posted Sep 21, 2009 4:13 pm | ||
| ncst | Day trip from Toluca to Pico de Fraile Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2009 | |
| Although it was pouring rain the night before in Toluca, I had a great sunny hike around the lagunas, reaching the Pico de Fraile as the clouds came rolling in. | |
| Posted Jul 23, 2009 9:13 pm | ||
| paisajeroamericano | Cody's 1st 15er Date Climbed: Dec 26, 2008 | |
| The traverse was quite entertaining. Camped at 3700m the night before with temperatures down to -8 C. Great weather on the mountain though. Climbed from the parking lot up to the saddle, the swung a right and followed the ridge counterclockwise, climbing the 2 highest peaks before shooting down to go check out the lakes on the way back. Tons of people down at the lakes, but nobody up on the ridge. Good times! | |
| Posted Apr 10, 2009 7:03 am | ||
| Lips74 | Route Climbed? Mountain Climbed? Date Climbed: Jan 1, 2009 | |
| This was an interesting trip wherin we got screwed by our taxi driver and had to walk up the 17 kilometer road. This put us badly off our schedule and camping in the backcountry. Matt and I forced a route through a nightmarish rockfield and summited a subpeak along the ridge around 14,900ft. Matt summited Pico Aguila 15,157ft. | |
| Posted Feb 3, 2009 5:00 am | ||
| ChristianRodriguez | route climbed Date Climbed: Dec 31, 2006 | |
| From refuge to the crater's border, wind was intense. so strong by moments impossible to stand up... so a hours later wheater change, clear, fresh and really nice views. We climbed the 3 highest peaks: Aguila, Marquez and Fraile. | |
| Posted Sep 28, 2008 1:24 pm | ||
| ChristianRodriguez | Amazing place - views are fantastic Date Climbed: Dec 31, 2006 | |
| We climbed mostly of peaks surrounding the crater of this huge volcano. sometime with ice, sometimes with snow but mostly of time just rocks. Amazing views of Laguna del Sol (Sun's lagoon) and Laguna de la Luna (Moon's lagoon). Totally clear sky, a little bit cold but nice. | |
| Posted Sep 8, 2008 1:36 am | ||
| dswink | Pico de Fraile Date Climbed: Jan 20, 2007 | |
| Summitted 1/20/2007, 2/5/2008 and 2/12/2008. This is a fun acclimatization climb. | |
| Posted Mar 9, 2008 7:51 pm | ||
| utclimber | Pico de Fraile | |
| As I recall, the most difficult part was convincing a taxi driver with my limited Spanish speaking ability to take us up there and wait for us to climb the peak. A nice outing. | ||
| Posted Jan 12, 2008 7:41 pm | ||
| MountainHikerCO | Interesting Place Date Climbed: Jan 13, 2006 | |
| This was an acclimation climb for Orizaba. We are sure it helped. | |
| Posted Dec 30, 2007 7:35 pm | ||
| emilie | Normal - Pico de Fraile Date Climbed: Dec 9, 2007 | |
| Acclimatization hike for Orizaba. We stayed at a hut and then drove up to the trailhead. Very fun. We went straight up a couloir that looked impossibly steep from across the crater lake but was actually a nice soft scree slope with some good snow. Some light bouldering at the top and a big sense of exposure on the peak. There was some slippery in the snow that made me a bit nervous as we headed down but the rest was uneventful. | |
| Posted Dec 17, 2007 12:20 pm | ||
| Peak_Bagger | Epic Date Climbed: Jan 1, 2002 | |
| It was an epic journey of 36hrs in my buddy's old nissan from Madison, WI to Toluca for New Years 2002. But we pased out before midnight beacsue we were so exhausted, then we decided to climb the peak the next day. We drove up to 13000 or so and parked the car, then ate a big meal of mac and cheese and gatorade. I was pretty sick by the time we made summit and by the time I reached the car I was puking a lot and felt pretty sick. I wasn't a smart climber back then, not enough experience. I'll never forget that one , you live and learn. | |
| Posted Apr 17, 2007 5:13 am | ||
| weeds19 | Pico de Fraile Date Climbed: Dec 28, 2006 | |
| We stayed in the upper hut for two nights and had a great climb of Pico de Fraile. The climb was meant as an acclimatization hike, but it was a worthy objective in its own right. Trip report at http://www.summitpost.org/trip-report/259825/toluca-pico-de-fraile.html | ||
| Posted Jan 13, 2007 7:31 am | ||
| Nyle Walton | Easy climb Date Climbed: Feb 15, 1957 | |
| As a student at Mexico City College (now the University of the Americas) in the good old days, I remember driving from Mexico City westward to the capital of the state of Mexico. The three of us drove as far as we could into the crater whence we hiked uphill through bunch grass and some snow patches in a broad traverse and reached the highest poiint on the rim of the Nevado's wide caldera. After having climbed Popo and Orizaba, I did not regard this volcano climb as any great achievement. | |
| Posted Aug 10, 2006 3:13 pm | ||
| tjbst47 | Nevado de Toluca Date Climbed: Mar 23, 2006 | |
| I did the tranverse. A dog came with me. | |
| Posted Mar 30, 2006 3:05 pm | ||
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