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| sdhager | Route Climbed: NE Ridge  Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2007 | |
| Awesome day! Great climb! | |
| Posted Aug 2, 2007 12:02 pm | ||
| stardrivin | South to North Traverse Date Climbed: Aug 24, 2006 | |
| Did south to north traverse. Epic day. Took rope but never used it. Sketchiest part was the downclimb into the notch, otherwise not too bad. Could easily be made more dicey by forcing another line. | |
| Posted Aug 1, 2007 6:11 pm | ||
| mtnhiker13 | NorthEast Ridge Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2006 | |
| I can't believe I hadn't already signed this summit log! I loved this mountain. We had attempted it in Sept of 2005 and had to turn back due to snow and ice. This time we climbed the mountain - we climbed in the fog. My only regret is that we had no view from the top but the climbing was great fun! This might be one of my favorite 14ers! | |
| Posted Jul 27, 2007 8:14 pm | ||
| Kiefer Thomas | NE Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 26, 2007 | |
| A pretty dam direct route to the summit. Some nightmarish route-finding at times but was with good friends all day. Unexpectingly, I enjoyed this mountain. Everything was wet or muddy from the deluge/downpour from the previous night. The first crux cliff wasn't as bad as I was expecting. | |
| Posted Jul 26, 2007 10:32 pm | ||
| altitude14er | Route Climbed: Northeast Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2007 | |
| Climbed with my friend Mike B. Due to the routes name, we expected to be on the ridge top proper most of the way; Instead the route ascends two long gullies. Still an incredible scramble! | |
| Posted Jul 15, 2007 12:27 pm | ||
| thebeave7 | Bell Cord and the Traverse Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2007 | |
| Did the "real" traverse, following the ridgeline almost the entire way across. A few class 4 sections, 1 5-easy(as Andy dubs it) section. Rock was pretty good along the ridge, better than the ledges on the sides. Descended the standard route(NE ridge), nice views but loose and crappy. Two in our party roped up for a few spots, I didn't find it necessary if you are comfortable with C4. | |
| Posted Jul 6, 2007 12:58 am | ||
| Dan Dalton | Traverse Date Climbed: Jun 24, 2007 | |
| Did the traverse, which is fairly exposed and totally awesome. Route finding is pretty easy and rock is much better than most describe! Dan | |
| Posted Jun 24, 2007 2:45 am | ||
| mow10 | Peak experience Date Climbed: Oct 16, 1999 | |
| Last day of non-snowy season. After departing N for S peak blizzard conditions followed me. 9 hours car to car. 18 hours Leadville to Leadville including 6 in South Canyon Hot Springs. I love Colorado. | |
| Posted Mar 17, 2007 6:52 am | ||
| Greg Iafeliece | North to South Traverse Date Climbed: Aug 9, 2004 | |
| Saw the same dead mountain goat off the summit of North Maroon that others saw. Bandaged up some 'guide' showing off for his client. Loved the downclimb to the traverse and the long hike out. Beautiful weather and a good time.. | |
| Posted Feb 18, 2007 12:26 am | ||
| boisedoc | Hard 14er Date Climbed: Jul 21, 1989 | |
| Climbed this in wet weather. Could get in trouble if you get off route. There were painted bulls eyes at the time I climbed it.Would wear a helmet if I did it again. | |
| Posted Dec 17, 2006 5:35 pm | ||
| lilmantis | The Bells Traverse Date Climbed: Sep 12, 2006 | |
| About that time where you should have crampons. There was about 3-4" of snow on the North sides of each Bell. Made the traverse slow and the day long. Glad I got to do them though!! | |
| Posted Sep 15, 2006 10:12 pm | ||
| shknbke | traverse from South Date Climbed: Jul 29, 2006 | |
| Did S to N traverse on an awesome day. The weather held the whole day. Stayed on west side of ridge to avoid class 5 stuff and regained the ridge past the difficulties. Followed a couple women down N. Maroon who had done the route. The dihedral was a little tricky downclimbing. | |
| Posted Sep 15, 2006 6:32 pm | ||
| DudeThatMustHurt | WoW! Date Climbed: Sep 12, 2006 | |
| WoW!. These mountains without snow are no joke, last time I climbed them there was tons of great snow pack and everything was solid. this time it was a whole different animal. route finding was a bit of a problem, mostly because there was fresh powder and ice on both north facing slopes. 2 people turned around back, Mike and I were the only ones to sunnit this day (I wrote the wrong date on the registers though LOL) The Traverse was not as bad except one route finding problem but still no big deal. | |
| Posted Sep 13, 2006 5:03 pm | ||
| CO PUMA | 14 1/2 hour Traverse Date Climbed: Jun 17, 2006 | |
| We climbed the Bell Cord Coulior and then went over to South Maroon. The weather was in no way threatening so we headed over to North Maroon which was pretty challenging. There was still quite a bit of snow on the ridge. Those few class 5 pitches were no joke. But we made it successfully with our brains hurting from all the route finding. I know why its considered one of the Great 14er Traverses now. | |
| Posted Sep 9, 2006 9:20 pm | ||
| Brad Snider | Traverse from South Bell Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2006 | |
| Great day, awesome traverse, but watch out for the loose stuff! Knee-pulping descent of the NE Ridge, worsened by thunderstorms which started before I got back to timberline. | |
| Posted Aug 4, 2006 2:00 am | ||
| seth@LOKI | We pulled the bell cord and it told death, lightning and end redemption... Date Climbed: Aug 27, 1994 | |
| We climbed the Bells first on August 27 (North Maroon would be my 27th fourteener) | |
| Posted Jul 26, 2006 7:43 am | ||
| jvoss | Standard route Date Climbed: Jul 20, 2006 | |
| Hit the trail by about 5:30am and summited by 10:30am. I have heard you can avoid the crux chimney by going around, but we didn't find that route. Free climbed up and down the chimney - tricky part was getting into the chimney on both up and down. Incredible weather and an awesome summit. Would definitely do this one again! | |
| Posted Jul 25, 2006 6:26 pm | ||
| km_donovan | Route Climbed: South to North Traverse Date Climbed: Jul 1, 2006 | |
| Took 2 hours to make the traverse. The climb out was long, a great day, #50 | |
| Posted Jul 6, 2006 1:37 pm | ||
| TM | nice mountain | |
| Nice tour, pretty surprising route works out well with little difficulty and pretty good rock in summer conditions. Of course a beautiful spot too. | |
| Posted Apr 10, 2006 5:27 am | ||
| markhyams | NE Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 27, 1994 | |
| This was my 5th 14er, and I definitely had no idea what I was doing. I went and scouted out the approach a couple days before, and it seemed straightforward enough, but when I did it, I got off-route a bit toward the top and scared silly. I always thought this is the hardest 14er, but I wasn't sure, so I went back in 2002 to try the route again, and it was just as hard (but not as scary), although we didn't summit because of a hail storm the night before, as the last couple hundred feet were covered in verglas. | |
| Posted Mar 5, 2006 6:00 pm | ||
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