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| sarah.simon | Via St. Vrain Trail  Date Climbed: Apr 12, 2009 | |
| So, I hear there are nice views from this summit. I dunno, all I saw was whiteout. The approach is pleasant and we were visited by the Ptarmigan on both the ascent & descent. Not long after leaving the saddle, however, conditions deteriorated rapidly. We didn't spent much time at the summit, and the descent was honestly miserable: Iced over lenses, zero visibility, snow shoes catching on invisible rocks, etc. We rejoiced upon reaching treeline! Partners: Ricardo's CMC trip with Mike. | |
| Posted Apr 12, 2009 11:23 pm | ||
| DanielWandsneider | Decent Climb | |
| Climbed this with my roommate in April. We were caught up in a blizzard, and somehow lost each other in the whiteout. Luckily we found each other and continued our climb. The snow was very deep and pretty physically demanding, considering I left my snowshoes at the base. This winter we will be back with skis for some awesome backcountry that we saw on the hike up. | |
| Posted Dec 9, 2008 7:43 pm | ||
| coljayms | Snowy Date Climbed: May 15, 2004 | |
| I met a friendly, white ptarmigan that followed by around for awhile. Total isolation up there. | ||
| Posted Oct 31, 2008 1:05 pm | ||
| SarahThompson | Std Route with Meadow Mountain Date Climbed: Dec 10, 2005 | |
| A good snowshoe. | |
| Posted Oct 8, 2008 10:50 pm | ||
| argothor | St. Vrain in the rain Date Climbed: Aug 10, 2008 | |
| Hiked up under cloudy skies, but still had a nice view of the Wild Basin and a cloud shrouded Longs Peak to the north and views of the Indian Peaks to the south. It started to rain on the way down and rained much of the way back to the Mount St. Vrain trailhead. | |
| Posted Aug 11, 2008 8:48 am | ||
| Kruck | Good snow travel Date Climbed: Jun 14, 2008 | |
| The final push after a long battle with lingering drifts on the approach was pleasant, with good travel snow from the foot of the hill at the saddle with the UN to the southwest to a few hundred yards below the summit. My wife caught a glisse down half the hill as I tried to foot-ski, for the most part unsuccessfully. Met an interesting fellow, Josh from 14ers.com, whom we climbed to the summit and back with from the saddle. | |
| Posted Jun 14, 2008 9:42 pm | ||
| MattK | Great Views Date Climbed: Jun 1, 2008 | |
| Wife, dog and I. Great views. | |
| Posted Jun 5, 2008 7:57 am | ||
| habaceeba | great views Date Climbed: Jun 11, 2007 | |
| I enjoyed this one. The view of Indian Peaks and Long's is spectacular. | |
| Posted Jan 29, 2008 6:12 pm | ||
| joegrim | via St. Vrain Trail Date Climbed: Aug 13, 2005 | |
| This was a nice late summer hike. | |
| Posted May 1, 2007 6:40 pm | ||
| edlins | Cruiser Winter Climb Date Climbed: Feb 17, 2007 | |
| It was cold and windy, but not difficult. We snowshoed the whole route, including the rocky saddle. It looked like the skiing was amazing. | |
| Posted Feb 26, 2007 5:24 pm | ||
| boisedoc | good early season hike Date Climbed: Jun 15, 1988 | |
| Good in combo with Meadow and nice early season glissade | |
| Posted Dec 19, 2006 5:24 am | ||
| royswkr | Cloudy hike mostly on trail Date Climbed: Sep 10, 1999 | |
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| Posted Oct 2, 2006 2:27 pm | ||
| Mountain Jim | From Elktooth Date Climbed: Jul 12, 1972 | |
| Climbed Elktooth from a camp in the Middle St Vrain, then traversed the ridge to St Vrain, then back down the trail into the Middle St Vrain and camp. Total ascents = 2. | |
| Posted Jul 9, 2006 12:01 am | ||
| roozers42 | Route Climbed: East Slopes Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2005 | |
| This is a wonderful hike with beautiful wildflowers, great views, and not too many people. | |
| Posted May 19, 2006 3:52 pm | ||
| NanitaD | From St. Vrain Trailhead Date Climbed: Oct 27, 1991 | |
| It was cold with some snow on the ground and got colder as the day went on. From St. Vrain we went over to Meadow Mountain. I've been back to summit three more times since then. | |
| Posted Apr 13, 2006 4:05 am | ||
| altitude14er | East Slopes Date Climbed: Oct 23, 2004 | |
| There was a descent amount of snow and wind on this climb - even for late October. I only saw a few other hikers this day and the solitude was welcome. I'd recommend you bag neighboring Meadow Mountain while in the neighborhood. The summit of St. Vrain offers great views south towards the Indian Peaks :) | |
| Posted Mar 17, 2006 4:04 pm | ||
| kalet | East Slopes Date Climbed: Feb 11, 2006 | |
| Skied ~40 feet from the summit! | |
| Posted Feb 13, 2006 7:40 pm | ||
| birdhead | Route Climbed: East Slope Date Climbed: July 2002 | |
| Nice views of the Indian Peaks Wilderness and Long's Peak. | |
| Posted Aug 22, 2005 8:43 pm | ||
| kcmule | Route Climbed: St Vrain Trailhead Date Climbed: July 12, 2005 | |
| A sweeping vista reward at the summit with a great view of the entire northern Indian Peaks wilderness. Plenty of isolation on these not-so-well-travelled summits makes this an ideal hike. | |
| Posted Jul 13, 2005 11:33 am | ||
| Asphazell | Route Climbed: East Slopes Date Climbed: December 2003 | |
| Fun mountain with fantastic views of the Indian Peaks. | |
| Posted Jun 30, 2005 11:21 am | ||
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