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| Smithman123 | Route Climbed: Angel of Shavano Date Climbed: May 2002  | |
| This was a very dry year so the angel of shavano was more like the angel of scree. We ascended along a trail to the north of the angel of shavano. Ended up badly spraining an ankle at about 14,000' on the way down in a thunderstorm. Took about 8 hours to limp back to the car, but made the summit! | |
| Posted Aug 20, 2005 8:28 pm | ||
| coloradoiceclimber | Route Climbed: Blank Gulch Date Climbed: August 14, 2005 | |
| Pretty wild weather today... Bobby, Jeremy, the dogs and I had a good time even though we didn't make both summits. | |
| Posted Aug 14, 2005 9:00 pm | ||
| shanahan96 | Route Climbed: Angel Snowfield Date Climbed: May 10, 2005 | |
| excellent, snow climb! i would definitely recommend this for someone who has never completed a snow climb. one of the best glissades in Colorado! jamie | |
| Posted Aug 14, 2005 4:49 pm | ||
| kilimanjaro1 | Route Climbed: East Slopes from Blank Gulch TH Date Climbed: July 21, 2005 | |
| Climbed with a group of men from my church. | |
| Posted Jul 31, 2005 9:46 pm | ||
| HeatherF | Route Climbed: Blank Gulch Trailhead-Shavano Trail Date Climbed: August 25, 2002 | |
| Great day. | |
| Posted Jul 25, 2005 5:56 pm | ||
| dacunto | Route Climbed: Blank Cabin TH Date Climbed: 16 July 2005 | |
| Trailfinding can be an issue throughout. Very rocky tracks can be lost when underbrush opens out on lower slopes. If you climb to the saddle before turning toward the summit, be aware that there is a prominent track visible on the left and if you follow that, as we did, you will have some balance climbing before the summit. I suggest you turn toward the visible summit about 200 meters before the saddle and just scramble up from there. This both shorter and easier than going all the way to the saddle. | ||
| Posted Jul 25, 2005 1:33 pm | ||
| Cortez | Route Climbed: Jennings Creek Date Climbed: June 7, 2003 | |
| WE climbed Shavano via the Jennings creek trailhead. Shavano was a relatively difficult mountain, though one of the more spectacular in the Sawatch the Angel was in full flutter during our hike. Hiking Party: Michael Booker Jennifer Booker Don Nalley Sarah Billy Boy Shiloh | |
| Posted Jul 24, 2005 1:20 pm | ||
| Helga | Route Climbed: Blank Gulch Date Climbed: July 17th, 2005 | |
| Solo, VERY early so to be able to take my time. Summited Mt.Shavano early enough ( 9:50) to procede to Tabeguache with not a cloud in the sky! Too much time consuming talus, but not as bad as La Plata, I thought.. Took many photos of all the different kinds of pretty flowers I'll need to look up their names...Will try to post them. This was a long hot day without sunglasses, nor sunscreen....so much for starting out in the dark! Evident haze still in the horizon from the recent forest fires. Great, great day! | |
| Posted Jul 18, 2005 11:34 pm | ||
| scvanm | Route Climbed: East Slopes from Blank Gulch Date Climbed: July 15th 2005 | |
| #12..... Saw Mountain Goats and Bighorn Sheep. Great day!!!! | |
| Posted Jul 17, 2005 9:37 pm | ||
| doumall | Route Climbed: Angel of Shavano Date Climbed: July, 1 2004 | |
| 18th 14er! | |
| Posted Jul 13, 2005 2:47 pm | ||
| Chris | Route Climbed: Blank Gulch / East Slopes Date Climbed: July 4, 2005 | |
| Did this with Mike and Marella. Beautiful day to be out in the mountains, and a great way to spend the 4th! Traversed over to Tabeguache and and back... that 2nd time up Shavano sure hurt. By the way, the Angel is essentially completely melted out, and not worth doing anymore... | |
| Posted Jul 5, 2005 6:36 pm | ||
| sisyphus | Route Climbed: Blank Gulch Date Climbed: June 28, 2005 | |
| Went over Shavano on the way to Tabeguache. I glissaded the Angel (what was left of it) on the way down for a quick descent. Some storms caused many of us that day to run off the summit. | |
| Posted Jun 29, 2005 4:07 pm | ||
| bdewoody | Route Climbed: Angel of Shavano Date Climbed: May 2005 | |
| A great snow climb with an even better slide down. | |
| Posted Jun 26, 2005 5:34 pm | ||
| jhansen007 | Route Climbed: Blanks Gulch Trailhead Date Climbed: June 18, 2005 | |
| Perfect day for a climb. Left trailhead around 630am. Summitted Shavano, then hiked the saddle to Tabeguache. Met Mark and Myron (see below) on the summit. Spent lots of time on top Tabeguache waiting for the rest of our group to summit. Awesome weather to take a nap on top of a 14er...very warm and virtually no wind while we were up there. Glissade down the angel was great too. | |
| Posted Jun 19, 2005 2:56 pm | ||
| mrkgrysngr | Route Climbed: Shavano / Tabaguache Trail Date Climbed: 6/18/2005 | |
| Hey saw Myron on the trip! also MoJo the big beautiful golden Lab w/ owner. The glissade down the Angel was Wild! | ||
| Posted Jun 19, 2005 10:31 am | ||
| myrone | Route Climbed: From Blank's Gulch Date Climbed: Saturday June 18, 2005 | |
| Started up at 7:04AM on an excellent trail, just a very little snow coming out of timber line, high winds at the saddle, reached summit at 10:00AM after losing the trail and scambling some. Rested 25 mins. then over to Tabeguache in about 45 mins. Rested about another 30 mins then retraced my steps down and glissaded down a snow field on Tabeguache and another much larger one on Shavano, way fun!! Back to the car at 2:36, my 10th & 11th 14'ers and another beautiful day in Colorado, sweet!! | |
| Posted Jun 19, 2005 8:49 am | ||
| chef007 | Route Climbed: South East Slope a.k.a Purgatory gulch Date Climbed: June 16 2005 | |
| Did this mountain as well as Espirit Point and Tabequache. Saw some mountain goats on the saddle and a few marmots at the top. | |
| Posted Jun 17, 2005 12:57 pm | ||
| James C | Route Climbed: the angel Date Climbed: May 28 2005 | |
| The Angel was totally awesome...better than hiking on talus, it made the climb a whole lot better, especially when glissading, the summit is nice too | |
| Posted Jun 11, 2005 1:44 pm | ||
| bc44caesar | Route Climbed: East Slopes Date Climbed: 4 Jun 2005 | |
| Left at 5:45 in the morning and stayed on the trail until about 11,000' where we put on crampons. Above here everything was covered in fresh snow, but just a little covering the firm snow underneath. Took the first arm of the angel up until it ended then headed straight for the summit on tundra & rock. Reached the summit after four hours in very strong winds and cold. My partner went down and I traversed over to Tabeguache and back in 1hr 45min. By then the snow had already melted and I made my way back to the trailhead from Shavano in two hours. | |
| Posted Jun 8, 2005 6:10 pm | ||
| Foxy Long Bottoms | Route Climbed: Pack Trail with a descent of the Angel Date Climbed: June 06, 2005 | |
| Fun mellow 14'er. The glissade down the angel was a blast. Don't feed the marmot on the summit. He'll beg for your food and practically crawl into your lap but be strong. :-) | |
| Posted Jun 8, 2005 2:51 pm | ||
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