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Gore Range > Peak Q "Prisoner Peak" > Climber's Log|
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| markhyams | Loose  Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2006 | |
| I followed the description for the summit block in the "Colorado Scrambles" book, which sounds harder than what is described here. Hmm... Amazing views, great position, but very loose. | |
| Posted Aug 9, 2006 12:23 pm | ||
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| Kane | Re: Loose | |
| Did you feel my description was lacking in any way? Let me know; I'll consider revising it. | |
| Posted Jan 7, 2007 12:33 am | ||
| JonBradford | Route Climbed: East Face Date Climbed: August 22, 2005 | |
| A great mountain. I wish I hadn't gotten sick on the first night of this trip. In any case Kane and Jim provided great company and indeed the incentive to get up this blighter. Jim your help in particular is the reason I did get up this mountain. Thank you. I have admired Q from many vantages and am happy to have made it up it this summer. If I were to guess on the origin of the name "Prisoner Peak" I would say that it represents the feeling of being captive on this mountain. One is so far in the wilderness, on a mountain accessable only by the most remote drainages of a rather inaccessable range... and the mountain itself with its steep loose gullies and boilerplate cliffs seems as if it could keep you if only conditions turned unfavorable. Perhaps it was my drained state and fevered imagination but this mountain cackled like witch and whispered "come to me...". It is a siren. | |
| Posted Sep 7, 2005 6:54 pm | ||
| Colonelpyat | Route Climbed: East Face Date Climbed: August 22, 2005 | |
| Climbed this with Jon and Kane during a three day trip to the area. Above average Gore views up there but sub par Gore climbing do to the looseness and... Congratulations to the asshole(S) who built cairns every twenty feet up the east face. It takes a special kind of dipshit to hike that far to trash a mountain. :( | |
| Posted Sep 7, 2005 2:07 am | ||
| Kane | Route Climbed: East Face Date Climbed: Aug of 2005 | |
| I had been longing for this summit since I first saw it from the summit of West Partner. It's such an impressive mountain. After a nice drenching, the approach to Upper Slate Lake in the dark was very difficult. The lake was a lot larger than I thought it would be. Although loose for the Gore Range, finally achieving the summit was very rewarding, especially getting up there with two of my closest climbing buddies Jon Bradford and Jim Haley. | |
| Posted Sep 6, 2005 3:35 pm | ||
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