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| chicagotransplant | Standard Route  Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2009 | |
| Climbed with Colin, Scot, Craig and Amanda. Good snow in the gully still, but there was some rock on the snow and you can tell its been getting some rockfall, bring a helmet. The ridge was nice, closer to the crest had a few easy class 3 sections, but its mostly class 2. There is a nice trail through the talus in the basin, its a little tricky to find, but worth it! | |
| Posted Jun 29, 2009 10:16 am | ||
| Britette | Skied the Pearl Date Climbed: May 15, 2008 | |
| Climbed to top of Pearl. Sun super heated snow so turned around before summit. Skied the Pearl. Rough snow. | |
| Posted Nov 5, 2008 11:38 pm | ||
| heather14 | East Face Couloir Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2008 | |
| With a 3am start I was feeling a little sluggish, but once above the lake and eyeing the couloir.... Ended up being a great day! | |
| Posted Jun 24, 2008 1:32 am | ||
| SarahThompson | With "Electric Pass Peak" Date Climbed: Jun 17, 2006 | |
| This was my first snow climb and it was a blast! Traversed on to "Electric Pass Peak" on the gnarly, rotten ridge. The rock was falling apart and the scree was extreme. I wouldn't recommend this unless you have a lot of experience on serious junk rock and scree. It is dangerous, especially on the Cathedral side. | |
| Posted Mar 28, 2008 8:29 pm | ||
| altitude14er | Route Climbed: South Couloir Date Climbed: Jun 9, 2007 | |
| Climbed this peak w/asphazell. A great snow climb and white-knuckle down-climb. I had to face-in due to the slick snows steep grade...mucho fun. | |
| Posted Jun 15, 2007 12:29 am | ||
| Ryan Kowalski | First Snow Climb Date Climbed: Jun 10, 2007 | |
| My first snow climb was a smashing success, a great route on good snow and great weather. | |
| Posted Jun 12, 2007 5:48 pm | ||
| Asphazell | South Couloir Date Climbed: Jun 9, 2007 | |
| Climbed with Altitude14er. Great snow climb in one of my favorite ranges! | |
| Posted Jun 11, 2007 12:37 am | ||
| sdhager | Route Climbed: South Ridge Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2006 | |
| My first solo climb, and I'm glad I was alone. The rock fall in the gully is no joke!! The gully was free of snow and the dirt was very soft. I did not see anyone until my return to the lake. Unless you count the deer that was stupid enough to run out in front of my car in mile 8 of Castle Creek Road! | |
| Posted Aug 12, 2006 10:32 pm | ||
| seth@LOKI | Cool Peak and Lake Date Climbed: Oct 19, 2004 | |
| Climbed in Fall with stud cuz Ross Schnell adn brother Dirk. | |
| Posted Jul 26, 2006 8:25 pm | ||
| shanahan96 | east couloir Date Climbed: Jun 20, 2006 | |
| fun couloir! the snow was very hard in the top half requiring solid kick steps and front pointing with the ice axe for safe forward movement. this is an awesome peak! jamie | |
| Posted Jul 1, 2006 12:28 am | ||
| xskier77 | I love my Ice Axe Date Climbed: Jun 17, 2006 | |
| My first big mountain of the season and wow what a day it was! I went solo and made great time to the lake. 1.5 hours. Climbed the steep snow gully to the south ridge. The snow was very hard and difficult to get my ice axe into very far. After reaching the summit I admired the views and then headed back down the same route. The snow in the gully was still very hard and due to the steepness of the gully I didn't feal comfortable glissading. I opted to pludge step my way down and about half way down my boot slipped out and I started to slide out of control. This really freaked me out as the gully was so steep. Thank god I had my ice axe as I used it to self arrest successfully. Hate to think of what could have happened had I not arrested. | |
| Posted Jun 19, 2006 12:06 am | ||
| shknbke | via south ridge Date Climbed: Jun 10, 2006 | |
| A very rewarding climb, probably one of the most scenic I have been on in CO. There's the steep climb on a nice trail to Cathedral Lake, the routefinding, the boulder hopping, and the sweet snow climb up the gully to the ridge. I wouldn't do this peak without snow cover in the gully though. Incredible views! | |
| Posted Jun 13, 2006 10:50 pm | ||
| kalet | East Face Date Climbed: May 28, 2006 | |
| Skied from the summit! | |
| Posted May 30, 2006 4:28 pm | ||
| PeterD. | Route Climbed: standard Date Climbed: July 22, 2004 | |
| The top half of the gully was "snow" filled, if you want to call it snow. It was a granular, miserable mix of wet, icy slush which provided adequate but not great footing. An ice axe was absolutely essential, not only on this stuff, but also in the soft dirt and mud in the bottom half. The fall risk was real. I stuck (excuse the expression) as much as possible to the right wall of the gully, using whatever hand holds I could find as I negotiated my way up. I used my axe like an ice climbing tool going up, digging into the snow for purchase. Getting up to the summit from the saddle was nothing compared to getting up the gully. Just before descending the gully a boulder the size of a small desk let loose from the saddle, going straight down and not stopping for anything. Anybody who would have been unfortunate enough to have been in its path at the time would have been creamed. Anyhow, the effort it took to ascend the gully made the climb most rewarding. This is a great mountain. | ||
| Posted Jul 24, 2004 12:54 am | ||
| Kane | Route Climbed: East Ridge. Date Climbed: 8-12-2002 | |
| I absolutely love my hikes in the Elks. This was a quite eventful day. It started with a weird experience before the sun had come up. At 4:00 a.m. I was hiking with my headlamp on and remember almost tripping on some guy that was sleeping directly on the trail about 2 miles up from the TH. It spooked the hell out of me. Some old man just laying there in his nasty sleeping bag out in the wilderness. "Persistance" seems to be a fitting word to describe this day. If your interested here is my trip report. | |
| Posted Jun 16, 2003 10:45 pm | ||
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