RMNP Need Help With A Plan B For This Weekend! HELP.
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:34 pm
Based on the comments in this thread http://www.summitpost.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=52386&sid=8ae6e2efa690bf89a63f3b1a8d862ce5 it appears we should be coming up with a Plan B. As we are headed out to CO TOMORROW at noon'ish we could use some help picking a new objective.
The plan was to climb the Shark's Tooth via the 5.4 route normally used as the descent and then climb the 5.7ish NE Ridge Route the following day. IF we can't get up there w/o exposing ourselves to avalanche danger (alternate approach route maybe?) then we need a Plan B.
Ideas should be no harder than the climbs we planned but don't have to be in RMNP as long as they are not a ton further.
One plan floated was Notch Top via http://www.summitpost.org/route/166074/sprial-route.html but I am not clear that there is lower avy danager here either.
The plan was to climb the Shark's Tooth via the 5.4 route normally used as the descent and then climb the 5.7ish NE Ridge Route the following day. IF we can't get up there w/o exposing ourselves to avalanche danger (alternate approach route maybe?) then we need a Plan B.
Ideas should be no harder than the climbs we planned but don't have to be in RMNP as long as they are not a ton further.
One plan floated was Notch Top via http://www.summitpost.org/route/166074/sprial-route.html but I am not clear that there is lower avy danager here either.