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| Seth Maciejowski | Northeast Ridge Great Peak!  Date Climbed: Jun 16, 2008 | |
| An awesome peak! Amazing views and a beautiful hike up the northeast ridge. I can't say enough about how awesome of a hike this one is! | |
| Posted Jun 24, 2008 10:17 pm | ||
| jhodlof | First 14er Date Climbed: Jul 6, 2007 | |
| My first 14er, but no longer the highest I've been. A great mountain thats as easy as it is charming. Second summit in August of 2008 was not as exciting as the first. Go figure. | |
| Posted Jun 10, 2008 12:38 pm | ||
| panhandler | First Colorado Summit! Date Climbed: May 8, 2006 | |
| Summitted on my birthday in pretty nasty weather. 50 - 60 mph winds and whiteout, but kept on to the summit. Fun climb, but not much more than a long snow slog/hike. | |
| Posted May 16, 2008 7:57 pm | ||
| Sam Page | Cold! Date Climbed: Feb 15, 1994 | |
| I forget the exact date. All four of us suffered some degree of frostnip/bite. | |
| Posted Apr 19, 2008 8:37 pm | ||
| TMF | no snowshoes Date Climbed: Mar 17, 2008 | |
| Failed to summit due to water freezing and dehydration | |
| Posted Apr 19, 2008 6:02 pm | ||
| Bluebell08 | October solo climb Date Climbed: Oct 8, 2006 | |
| Weather was overcast and even snowed a bit, was tough to make out the trail, postholed quite a bit. The false summits are a real killer! | |
| Posted Apr 16, 2008 1:12 am | ||
| ryan_tx | Snowy Date Climbed: Apr 2, 2008 | |
| Attempted with two other friends. Even with snowshoes, we were still sinking to our knees every step in the trees. We set up camp below tree line, but ended up coming down 1 hour later due to a friend's worsening sprained ankle and mild altitude sickness setting in. We will come back! | |
| Posted Apr 15, 2008 10:54 pm | ||
| dswink | Soloed with the summer time crowds Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2006 | |
| This climb has the most false summits I have experienced to date! Very satisfying climb with great views. | |
| Posted Mar 10, 2008 12:45 am | ||
| ChaddBragg | Long Day Date Climbed: Jul 8, 2007 | |
| This was a great hike from the South trailhead. There were tons of people up there, but there usually is ona 14er. Took us quite a while because the friend that went with me was a little sick that day and started to feel worse and worse on the way down | ||
| Posted Mar 6, 2008 2:40 pm | ||
| jimegan | MT ELBERT Date Climbed: Jul 13, 2004 | |
| CLIMBED THE BLACK CLOUD TRAIL OVER S MT ELBERT 3 1/2 HRS UP AND 2 HRS BACK. MY FIRST CO 14ER AS PART OF MY WESTERN STATES HIGHPOINTS TRIP | |
| Posted Feb 6, 2008 7:55 pm | ||
| habaceeba | A Hail of a Time Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2007 | |
| Started from the Black Cloud TH. I wouldn't climb Elbert any other way. For solitude, this route can't be beat as I didn't see anyone else until I reached the summit. I took Variation 1 down (which descends the bowl between Bull Hill and South Elbert. No trail to be found and it was talus and scree until treeline. A storm blew in and I got hailed on for about an hour. | |
| Posted Jan 27, 2008 10:49 am | ||
| ClimbandMine | Elbert Date Climbed: Sep 7, 2002 | |
| Another Sawatch hike | |
| Posted Jan 14, 2008 5:51 pm | ||
| Peter Gram | Standard Route | |
| Climbed the standard route of Elbert back in '94 or '95. | |
| Posted Jan 13, 2008 11:32 pm | ||
| MountainHikerCO | # 7 Date Climbed: Nov 17, 2007 | |
| This was my 7th climb of Elbert. Standard route. Although we had snow, there was little coverage for this late in the year. | |
| Posted Jan 9, 2008 12:14 am | ||
| MountainHikerCO | First Time Date Climbed: Aug 16, 1987 | |
| This was my first time climbing Mount Elbert. It was from the old trailhead that shared parking with Mount Massive. Most of my climbs of Elbert have been on this standard route. Although on one climb we approached from the Independence Pass road and went over South Elbert and on the return Bull Hill. | |
| Posted Jan 9, 2008 12:12 am | ||
| mjroche | standard route | |
| Did this the first weekend I moved to Colorado. Lots of snow and had the summit to myself. | |
| Posted Jan 6, 2008 4:02 pm | ||
| Kenneth.alone | Alone in the snow Date Climbed: Mar 4, 2004 | |
| I had great time up there by myself. Wicked bad snow storm on the way down! Awesome mountains of ours! | |
| Posted Jan 3, 2008 10:10 pm | ||
| johnmnichols | Elbert summit party Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2004 | |
| Summited via standard East Ridge route. Wife and I were the #2 and #3 people on the summit. Within 45 minutes, there were no fewer than 30 people and 6-8 dogs on top. Glad we started early! | |
| Posted Dec 26, 2007 10:20 am | ||
| Kenneth.alone | Beautiful place Date Climbed: Apr 10, 2004 | |
| I climbed it the snow, not another person on the peak. good times. | |
| Posted Dec 16, 2007 5:51 pm | ||
| AltitudeSickness | South Mt. Elbert Trailhead Date Climbed: Sep 15, 1994 | |
| 2nd 14er. Again climbed with my neighbor, friend and guide Scott Arnett. My memories of this climb are having Scott yell up to me saying " Slow down you goat" as I left the trail at about 12,500 feet and went straight up to the summit through boulders and snow fields. I felt very strong. After an enjoyable hour and a half on the summit mother nature let us know it was time to retreat by dumping a large amount of snow on us turning it into a white out within about 20 minutes. | |
| Posted Nov 26, 2007 11:18 pm | ||
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