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| coljayms | Crusing the Flats  Date Climbed: Jun 20, 2004 | |
| Several tops and Sprague made for a really long day | ||
| Posted Oct 31, 2008 12:58 pm | ||
| jwclimbs | East Face Ice Date Climbed: Nov 11, 2007 | |
| East Face in perfect AI/WI conditions! Sweet Climb! | |
| Posted Nov 28, 2007 2:01 am | ||
| Jim Clarke | East Face Primo Alpine Ice Date Climbed: Nov 13, 2007 | |
| Full Value alpine classic in RMNP with Tim "The Bulldozer" Pearl who "plowed" through the deep stuff for hours up top like some super-human Super Slog Maestro!!! Great "thunker" ice pitches. Highly recommend! | |
| Posted Nov 15, 2007 7:48 pm | ||
| Timothy Pearl | East Face Rules Date Climbed: Nov 13, 2007 | |
| What a route in prime alpine condition! Couldn't help but share it now that I've seen it. With Jim C. Descended south via Flattop. | |
| Posted Nov 14, 2007 9:02 pm | ||
| brandon | some 5.8 route | |
| fun stuff, removed a couple scary rap stations on the descent. | |
| Posted Jan 5, 2007 9:33 pm | ||
| miztflip | Spiral to the Divide Date Climbed: Aug 23, 2006 | |
| My wife and I took advantage of the great weather today. We climbed the Spiral Route, traversed to the divide and peak bagged along the divide before returning via Flattop trail to Bear Lake. The Spiral route was fun and easy. It made for a great outing in an outstanding setting. We roped for two pitches and found the rock to be solid. The hanging meadow was an awesome place for a snack. We had intended to finish with mornin' but someone else was on it. The traverse to the saddle was a breeze (not sure what all the fuss is about) and we finished on a great ledge leading to the divide. | |
| Posted Aug 24, 2006 1:41 am | ||
| tdoughty | SE Gulley Date Climbed: Aug 8, 2006 | |
| Chinook winds kept us from the sprial. We did traverse out from the top of the gulley 5 pitches to the summit. Then climbed to the divide walked south to flatop mt. and descended via its trail. nice day's outing with P. Dowdy and C. Sanford | |
| Posted Aug 14, 2006 5:12 pm | ||
| heather14 | Southeast Gully Date Climbed: Aug 5, 2006 | |
| Took the easy route today...would love to try the Spiral someday! | |
| Posted Aug 6, 2006 4:59 am | ||
| Andy | Spiral Route Date Climbed: Jun 25, 2006 | |
| Had a great time on The Spiral Route - fun climbing in a spectacular setting. The summit was one of the cooler ones I've been on - definitely worth the effort to scramble up to it from the notch. | |
| Posted Jun 27, 2006 2:38 pm | ||
| smudge | Spiral Date Climbed: Jun 25, 2006 | |
| Great route and a great summit! | |
| Posted Jun 26, 2006 3:22 pm | ||
| Mountain Jim | Spiral Route Date Climbed: Jul 28, 1988 | |
| Total ascents = 2. Great summit !!! | |
| Posted Apr 7, 2006 2:13 am | ||
| markhyams | Spiral Route Date Climbed: Aug 14, 1999 | |
| Good times on this route. Fun climbing lower down and high up. Middle part is a walk through meadows. Getting up to the notch I think we ended up on some 5.7 variation. Hmmm... | |
| Posted Feb 24, 2006 10:56 pm | ||
| NanitaD | Route Climbed: Southeast Gully Date Climbed: Sep 16, 1995 | |
| We climbed the easy route up the gully. We traversed east from the gully and climbed the summit spire. The summit is only large enough to place your hand over it and the drop below is breathtaking. After leaving the summit we scrambled up to the divide and included Knobtop and Gabletop in our summits that day. | |
| Posted Feb 22, 2006 1:39 am | ||
| jennakate | Route Climbed: ascended via Milner Pass, descended via Bear Lake Date Climbed: July 23, 2005 | |
| Long traverse of many mountains and lots of tundra! | |
| Posted Oct 8, 2005 11:17 pm | ||
| Foxy Long Bottoms | Route Climbed: Spiral Route with a finish on Morning Date Climbed: 8/21/05 | |
| We topped out at the Notch, with no intention of reaching the summit since our route ended here. We climbed the Spiral Route and finished with Morning (5.7). Spiral is a fantastic mountaineering route and one of the best beginner alpine routes I have done. The route presented opportunities to get in some low grade technical climbing, scrambling, hiking and soloing. The route finding was not that bad. The descent absolutely sucked. My partner came very close to having an epic on the S side of the peak due to our ropes being stuck approximately 400' off the deck. We endured rain, snow, thunder and lightning on the way down. We should have opted for the walk-off but declined to do so because it was wet. But given the poor beta that we had on the rap descent, it would have been better. Somehow we missed the true rap line and ended up doing 2 raps (1 set up from the notch by us) and a second rap in a gulley that was protected by a chockstone and a Chinard piton. Approximately 250' below that we spotted some real anchors. After we freed up our stuck ropes byt sheer luck, we worked our way down to the anchors. From that point on, I knew we were home free. What a cool adventure. | |
| Posted Aug 22, 2005 11:50 am | ||
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