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| jef80 | NE Ridge  Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2009 | |
| Pretty fun climb for my first visit to RMNP. Can't wait to get back. | |
| Posted Sep 27, 2009 3:47 pm | ||
| kalet | NE Ridge Date Climbed: Sep 7, 2009 | |
| Soloed the last of 5 pitches. | |
| Posted Sep 7, 2009 8:09 pm | ||
| dswink | NE Ridge Date Climbed: Aug 15, 2009 | |
| Nice hike in followed by a boulder scramble and slipping across some hard snow slopes. The rock climbing was fun and easy. We had a rare RMNP day with no rain or clouds. | |
| Posted Sep 1, 2009 12:50 am | ||
| chrisferro | Summer 2004 Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2004 | |
| Dave Crowther and I did the Northeast Buttress (or Ridge, whatever you want to call it). The road was closed due to construction, but the busses were running. We took the first bus of the day at 5am or so to the trailhead. The hike in was beautiful, but you have to pay attention at one point right after you cross a creek because the trail isn't visible on the slabby rocks. That's close to the end where you break right to go the Shark's Tooth as opposed to going straight to get to the Petit Grepon. Once you get up into the valley where you can see the Shark's Tooth, the apporach goes up the grassy ledges to the right. We went left (wrong and scary). The route itself is 6 pitches, but 2 of them are half length because of a drop that would give you terrible rope drag. The first pitch is easy, but then the next pitch has 2 distinct cruxes with sustained climbing throughout. The third pitch is a little easier to a huge ledge. Fourth goes up to a little notch where you have to stop because of rope drag. The 5th goes up a full pitch with huge exposure. Then the 6th is a short pitch that takes you to the top. The summit is plenty big. The rap station is down to the left (looking from where you came up), and there are 2 or 3 raps down to where you can scramble down into the gully behind the Petit Grepon, then down the gully to where you started. Don't leave any food in your packs, because the marmots or pikas or whatever they were will tear your pack apart (we climbed with one pack and left one pack at the bottom, which was torn into). A great climb - never too hard but those cruxes make you think. | |
| Posted Nov 11, 2007 11:13 am | ||
| jennakate | Northeast Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 2, 2006 | |
| Beautiful day for my first lead ever! A marmot got into our packs, but the incredible climb made up for it! | |
| Posted Jul 19, 2006 2:03 am | ||
| f360driver | North Face Direct Date Climbed: Jul 13, 2006 | |
| Amazing. Climbed North Face Direct. It was dark, wet and a bit rotten. Made for some interesting climbing. Pitty that someone removed the rubber shark from the register though. | |
| Posted Jul 15, 2006 3:11 am | ||
| Andy | Northeast Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2006 | |
| Excellent climb with brenta. Route finding was a bit tricky at the bottom and we did two and a half odd, meandering pitches before finding the true ridge proper. We got rained on a bit during the rappel but otherwise had a great time. | |
| Posted Jul 5, 2006 4:43 am | ||
| NanitaD | East Gully Date Climbed: Jul 25, 1995 | |
| We started at in the dark and ended in the dark. A long rewarding day highlighted by a rewarding climb on Sharkstooth with friends. | |
| Posted Apr 15, 2006 7:48 am | ||
| markhyams | NE Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 2, 1997 | |
| This is the 5-pitch 5.6 route described in various guidebooks. One of the best outings in RMNP, in my opinion. | |
| Posted Mar 3, 2006 6:14 pm | ||
| Mountain Jim | Route Climbed: East Gully Date Climbed: August 1966 | |
| Sharkstooth is probably the most difficult of the named summits in Rocky Mountain National Park, comparing all by the easiest route. The other summit that comes close is Haydens Spire. There are, of course, several summits that have climbers names, such as the "Petit Grepon", that are more difficult than Sharkstooth. | |
| Posted Feb 8, 2006 12:10 am | ||
| Foxy Long Bottoms | Route Climbed: Not Sure Date Climbed: 8/04 | |
| We were shooting for the Direct North Face but ended up on some chossy, run out, slabby mess of a climb. I doubt it is even a route. Regardless, we watched the Petit get smaller and smaller. The climb was a tad dangerous but the crux of the day proved to be missing the shuttle on the way out. Hiking the road back to the shuttle lot after a day like that totally sucked. | |
| Posted Aug 29, 2005 2:39 pm | ||
| brandon | Route Climbed: Direct North Face Date Climbed: Fall 2001 | |
| Not quite sure of the route Nanda and I did. Something more or less 50 meter to the right of the NE Ridge. I wouldn't recommend it. | |
| Posted Feb 7, 2004 11:56 pm | ||
| Josh | Route Climbed: East Gully (5.4) Date Climbed: Summer, 1996 | |
| I was working on RMNP trail crew for the summer, and we spent a week below Andrews Glacier (?) fixing up the trail. One afternoon we quit working a bit early and scrambled over to the Sharkstooth. Three of us simul-soloed up the East Gully and then rappelled the route. | |
| Posted Feb 5, 2004 12:16 am | ||
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