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| Kane | Crags Campground Date Climbed: Mar 23, 2008 | |
| Windy day. Saw two people up there on Easter Day. | |
| Posted Mar 13, 2009 1:34 am | ||
| MattK | From Crags  Date Climbed: Mar 2, 2009 | |
| Wife, dog and I. | |
| Posted Mar 5, 2009 8:24 am | ||
| HokieJim | West Fork Date Climbed: Feb 7, 2009 | |
| Loved it, beautiful scenery on this route | |
| Posted Feb 11, 2009 11:56 pm | ||
| shknbke | Via West Fork/descend Crags Date Climbed: Feb 7, 2009 | |
| I have a goal of climbling Pikes in every month via a variety of routes. The West Fork is a gem. I would say it is the most scenic approach next to Bottomless Pit. We took advantage of the dry winter with a long winter day. I would highly recommend this as a loop route with descent of the Crags, but there is some private property to avoid. See TR. | |
| Posted Feb 11, 2009 4:47 pm | ||
| Wiktoria Plawska | Rocky Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2007 | |
| Rocky snd Rubbly, was not the most pretty mountain i haave seen. The devils playground was much better and the rock formations were beautiful. Wiktoria | |
| Posted Jan 24, 2009 2:51 pm | ||
| jdm2lpm | Cheated Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2002 | |
| I cheated and drove to the top when I was stationed at Peterson AFB, CO. If I were there again, I would hike Barr Trail. | |
| Posted Dec 8, 2008 1:20 am | ||
| kavak | Via Devils Playground Date Climbed: Oct 24, 2004 | |
| I took a friend from Idaho up the road to Devil's Playground. Since the rocks in that area are the high point of Teller County, we did that first and then on up to Pikes Peak. It was fitting first 14er for her. | |
| Posted Oct 31, 2008 9:59 am | ||
| silversummit | Been up there 2x | |
| on the cog rr. The first trip was with my son who was too little to hike up and the second was this past summer when I was with a group and we only had three hours to spend there. I am determined to hike the next time I am in Colorado Springs even if it takes me two days! | |
| Posted Oct 4, 2008 12:04 am | ||
| HokieJim | Y Couloir Date Climbed: Apr 19, 2008 | |
| Right branch, exciting finish, great friends to climb with! | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2008 3:45 pm | ||
| Pivvay | Summit from Crags in the clouds Date Climbed: Aug 10, 2008 | |
| This was our 3rd trip to the mountain (2 winter attempts, 1 summit for me) and our first summit with Chris and Marni together for #15 (and Turbo #13). Low clouds all the way made the Devil's playground really cool although we hurried for the 3 miles or more above treeline before storms started booming. Long day as we hiked 5 miles extra at the start up to Crags and on the dirt road because I'm an idiot. | |
| Posted Aug 21, 2008 11:13 am | ||
| Pivvay | First Winter 14er Summit Date Climbed: Feb 22, 2007 | |
| Climbed with Rob. Started Friday night late after work and topped out early Saturday AM via the Barr Trail in plenty of new snow and wind. Lots of fun in a small storm. Weather started to clear out on our way down and the sun came out. | |
| Posted Aug 21, 2008 10:52 am | ||
| Brandon Fuller | Epic Marathon Date Climbed: Aug 17, 2008 | |
| Ran the Pikes Peak Marathon for my summit. Snow was flying at the top in August! | |
| Posted Aug 19, 2008 6:32 pm | ||
| Clark_Griswold | Dissappointed on a 14er Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2008 | |
| I took the Devils Playground approach from the Crags Campground. I like the trail, the mountain and the views, but the summit experience left me displeased. I'm not used to all the people and it felt like Disney World on top. | |
| Posted Aug 11, 2008 10:00 pm | ||
| chicagotransplant | Last ranked 14er Date Climbed: Aug 9, 2008 | |
| Climbed solo via the Crags with "Devils Playground Peak". Met my family (who drove) at the summit to celebrate my final ranked 14er in Colorado. We had taken the Cog up when I was 16 months old, so this was a fitting ending to this chapter of my climbing. Definitely the weirdest summit experience with all of the tourist facilities up top. | |
| Posted Aug 11, 2008 9:49 am | ||
| Dean | With my wife Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2008 | |
| My wife's first 14'er and we also picked up the Teller County highpoint to make the day a two fer (county highpointing) and the second ultra for me in two days as I did Elbert the day before. | |
| Posted Aug 2, 2008 6:43 am | ||
| Sierra Ledge Rat | 1991: N Face Couloir | |
| Early season ascent of the N couloir with Duane "Buzz" Inderdahl | |
| Posted Jul 18, 2008 12:37 am | ||
| tomlauren | Barr Trail Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2008 | |
| Hiked the Barr Trail with an overnight in national forest near Barr Camp with my friend Keith. Had a cheeseburger and hot pretzel on the summit. | |
| Posted Jul 14, 2008 9:48 pm | ||
| thehans | LONG Date Climbed: Jul 6, 2008 | |
| Hiked up the Craigs and then descended the Barr Trail. The Barr trail lasts forever and most of it is in the trees. Very bad descent. I hate the Barr Trail. | |
| Posted Jul 12, 2008 7:10 pm | ||
| BeginnerClimber | Crazy day at altitude Date Climbed: Jun 29, 2008 | |
| For the first time in seventeen 14er summits, I got altitude sickness, and I got it BAAAAD. Was feeling horrible, getting very sick on trail above 13000ft, and actually collapsed on the trail. Eventually made it up with the help from some friends (THANK YOU!!!) Not surprising, though, I summitted Huron Peak the very next week and had no issues whatsoever. Soooo, hiking Pikes for the second time (first time back in July, 05) and getting altitude sickness must've been a fluke. | |
| Posted Jul 5, 2008 1:49 pm | ||
| friday | My Daughter and I's first 14'er Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2008 | |
| I climbed this with my 11 y/o daughter from the parking lot at the Devil's Playground. We got off to a very late start, after 1 PM. Since both her and I were not acclimated to this altitude, we were moving a slow pace. Whenever we did take breaks, I was usually occupying myself with fixing/enlarging some of the rock cairns. But when we noticed lightning starting to crack off in the distance, we attempted to make a lot faster pace. With lightning seemingly getting closer, we were very delighted to see my wife's SUV waiting in the parking lot. | |
| Posted Jun 28, 2008 1:12 am | ||
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