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Sawatch Range > Emerald & Iowa Peaks > Climber's Log|
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| strudolyubov | Missouri/Iowa/Emerald  Date Climbed: Sep 26, 2009 | |
| Climbed Iowa Peak and Emerald Peak after summiting Missouri Mountain from Missouri Gulch. After climbing Emerald descended to the lakes in Pine Creek Basin and returned back over Elkhead Pass. Nice hike, gorgeous weather, great views. | |
| Posted Sep 28, 2009 12:46 am | ||
| shknbke | South slopes from Rockdale 4WD Date Climbed: Jul 25, 2009 | |
| Combined Emerald with Silver King from the Rockdale 4WD TH below Clohesy Lake, which is by far the shortest route for this remote peak. The loose scree on the south slopes was annoying, but there is a remnant of a miner's trail to follow here and there. | |
| Posted Jul 26, 2009 6:58 pm | ||
| heather14 | Missouri Gulch Date Climbed: Nov 1, 2008 | |
| Over Elkhead Pass to E & I then on to Misery...I mean Missouri and down the standard route which was snowy and slippery. | |
| Posted Nov 2, 2008 8:27 pm | ||
| Kiefer Thomas | Via Missouri Gulch Date Climbed: Oct 27, 2008 | |
| Tagged these en-route from Missouri Peak. A nice, long, satisfying day with great weather. Tagged Mt. Belford on the way out. | |
| Posted Oct 28, 2008 2:49 pm | ||
| shanahan96 | birthday jaunt up the southwest slopes Date Climbed: Sep 14, 2008 | |
| stretched the legs out the day after our west apostle fiasco with a winter recon of emerald. enjoyed the nice trail to the pass and survived the steep, scree slopes to the summit ridge. a fine mountain! jamie | |
| Posted Sep 14, 2008 10:33 pm | ||
| miztflip | Triple Crown from Missouri Gulch Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2008 | |
| Started from the Missouri Gulch TH at 6AM. I made good time to Elkhead and forgot how beautiful upper Pine Creek is. Climbed Emerald, which had great views of some seldom visited areas, and then on to Iowa before returning via Missouri. Returned to the TH at 10:58AM for 4:58 RT. The trail on Missouri is much improved over when I did it 9 years ago. | |
| Posted Aug 12, 2008 9:54 pm | ||
| Peter Gram | Nice Peak Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2008 | |
| Climbed Emerald and Iowa from Missouri Gulch. Still lots of snow, and took 7:15 round trip. | |
| Posted Jun 28, 2008 8:29 pm | ||
| SarahThompson | Emerald & Iowa from Rockdale Date Climbed: Oct 16, 2005 | |
| New snow made for slow going. Long day. | |
| Posted May 23, 2008 3:03 pm | ||
| MountainHikerCO | Missouri Gulch Date Climbed: Aug 28, 1993 | |
| This was my second climb of Iowa & my first climb of Emerald. We climbed Missouri first and then over Iowa to Emerald. Then back through Elkhead Pass to the Missouri Gulch trailhead. My first climb of Iowa was 8-5-89 along with Missouri. My third climb of Iowa, also with Missouri was 8-17-96. I got Emerald a second time by itself on 5-26-02. | |
| Posted Mar 2, 2008 3:34 pm | ||
| HylianHero | Only Iowa Date Climbed: Jun 18, 2003 | |
| Climbed with Missouri. The weather kept us off Emerald. I'll have to go back and make it again. | |
| Posted Sep 17, 2007 9:17 pm | ||
| Woodie Hopper | From Missouri- West Ridge to Iowa and Emerald Date Climbed: Sep 13, 2007 | |
| Nice hike from Missouri. The views of the surrounding peaks and the golden aspens in the valley below were stunning. I'm glad I did these two. 6hrs RT from below Clohesy Lake TH. | |
| Posted Sep 14, 2007 12:14 am | ||
| Brad Snider | Bel-Ox-Emarld-Iowa-MO Date Climbed: Aug 23, 2007 | |
| Over 8,000 vertical ft. and a lot of miles, but the scenery made it worthwhile. | |
| Posted Aug 24, 2007 2:36 pm | ||
| dsnalley | Elkhead Pass to the Triple Crown Date Climbed: Oct 1, 2006 | |
| Great day in the snow. Good weather allowed us to peak Missouri at one. | |
| Posted Oct 4, 2006 2:38 pm | ||
| jrf | Triple Crown (kind of) Date Climbed: Sep 3, 2006 | |
| We hiked over from Missouri to Iowa and Emerald. Took about 90 minutes to reach Emerald from Missouri. Beautiful views and you really feel as if you are all alone up there. We decided to descend Emerald to the southwest as shown in Roach's book towards some mine ruins above Pear Lake. This was absolutely terrible. That side of the mountain is nothing more than a pile of slag. There is nothing solid. Everything moves. We had to be very careful on the way down not to get hurt. If I had to do it again I would never descend this way. I'd either go back to Iowa and descend the West Ridge or even back to Missouri. | |
| Posted Sep 6, 2006 5:31 pm | ||
| kalet | Emerald (South Slopes; ascent) to Iowa (West Ridge; descent) Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2006 | |
| 6 hours roundtrip from 2WD Rockdale Trailhead. | |
| Posted Sep 5, 2006 4:12 pm | ||
| doumall | West Ridge Iowa to Emerald Date Climbed: Aug 19, 2006 | |
| Lightening at 9 am, then on an off all day made this an interesting outing in the mountains. The west ridge requires a short class 4 move if you dont avoid a notch near the summit. You can avoid it and keep the route class 2. Ran from Iowa to Emerald and back to the Iowa Missouri saddle in 45 mins to beat a storm. Ouch! | |
| Posted Aug 28, 2006 11:09 pm | ||
| crzyjt | Triple Crown + Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2006 | |
| Climbed these two after Missouri, then headed over to Oxford and Belford. Long day. I'll agree with the comment below, Emerald may have been the most fun of all 5 peaks climbed today. Some nice scrambling in spots that the other peaks were lacking. | |
| Posted Jul 17, 2006 3:20 am | ||
| hhsilleck | Route Climbed: Via Missouri Gulch / Elkhead Pass Date Climbed: Jun 7, 2006 | |
| Emerald is a very nice peak - off the beaten path and in a fine setting. The slopes up to the Missouri-Iowa saddle from the basin were not ideal - heading up to the Iowa-Emerald saddle might be a better idea. | |
| Posted Jun 10, 2006 5:14 pm | ||
| Ryan Kowalski | A Sawatch Jewel Date Climbed: Sep 21, 2002 | |
| Did Mizz, Iowa, Emerald, Belford, and Oxford, and I have to say that Emerald was probably my favorite of the day. Great views and solitude, definitley worth a repeat visit some day. | |
| Posted May 20, 2006 3:14 am | ||
| chicagotransplant | Route Climbed: Triple Crown Date Climbed: August 21, 2004 | |
| Pushed my luck a little, but managed to beat the storm... is that lightning on Harvard! | |
| Posted Jan 9, 2006 8:29 pm | ||
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