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| milan | Climbed  Date Climbed: Aug 4, 2012 | |
| Another class 4, very nice ledges, spicy exposure and I met with new people that become my friends and climbing partners. | ||
| Posted Oct 21, 2012 5:44 pm | ||
| SenadR | NE Ridge Date Climbed: Sep 8, 2012 | |
| Great mountain, fantastic summit, one of the best! | |
| Posted Sep 9, 2012 3:50 pm | ||
| Legpowered | Mountain Goats Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2012 | |
| Great climb. Lots of loose rock and mountain goats everywhere | |
| Posted Sep 7, 2012 8:45 am | ||
| csmcgranahan | First Elk 14er Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2012 | |
| Camped at Crater Lake with a friend and summited around 10:30am. For me going up was worse than coming down above 13,000. Loathed the clmb out of and back into the Amphitheater. Almost hit by a baseball sized missile of a rock. | |
| Posted Aug 19, 2012 12:41 pm | ||
| metalmountain | That Cairn! Date Climbed: Aug 4, 2012 | |
| That GIANT cairn is easier to miss than you think when you are hiking in the dark. Over all not as difficult as I had imagined it would be. There is still quite a bit of lose rock to be found in the Green gully, one of our group took a baseball sized rock to the head. Thank God for helmets! | |
| Posted Aug 15, 2012 3:51 pm | ||
| Kessler | Pyramid Date Climbed: Jun 30, 2012 | |
| 6-30-12 | |
| Posted Aug 1, 2012 9:10 am | ||
| Scott | Pyramid Date Climbed: Jun 30, 2012 | |
| June 29 The plan was to get a late afternoon start to hike up to Crater Lake, but Kim got stuck at work late and we [Kimberly (wife), Shaylee (8 year old daughter), Kessler (10 year old son) and I] didn’t leave the trailhead until after 8 pm. We hurried to the lake with our backpacks and arrived in a pretty quick 45 minutes. It took a while to find an empty campsite and we set up camp in the dark. We me Kevin, his 15 year old son Tristen and his 13 year old Chance who was camped next to us. He knew Kessler and expressed his interest in joining us, so we agreed to do a joint climb of Pyramid in the morning. June 30 Kim and Shaylee stayed behind at the lake, while Kessler and I headed from Crater Lake shortly after 6:30 AM. Once we started up the steep slope we saw the others below and waited for them to catch up. Kessler and Chance were the speedy climbers of the bunch and they had to wait for the rest of us several times. After crossing a few snowfields, we we climbed up to the saddle where I told Kessler to wait for us (they beat us by 25 minutes). Kessler, Chance and I made the rest of the climb to Pyramid. We were ahead while Tristan and Kevin took up the rear. The route up to Pyramid had some fun exposed scrambles, but was easier than expected, especially the route-finding part. We got off route a little once, but other than that the route was pretty obvious and easy to find. We found ourselves at the top in just under 4.5 hours of climbing. After a long lunch to wait for the others we headed back down. At the saddle, Kessler and Chance went on ahead and beat us to the lake by 45 minutes. We then bid farewell to the others before packing up camp and heading back down to the trailhead. It was a great climb and with perfect weather. | |
| Posted Aug 1, 2012 9:09 am | ||
| blueshade | Fun climb, great view Date Climbed: Jul 6, 2012 | |
| Fairly quick and painless climb. Once at the saddle things get a little more interesting. Climbed the short C5 section at the broken tower then walked the ridge to the NE Ridge route, returned by the standard bypass. Amazing views of the Maroons, Snowmass, and Capitol- couldn't see Conundrum or Castle due to the clouds. Rained halfway down, but felt great. | |
| Posted Jul 6, 2012 9:08 pm | ||
| JustinShapiro | Hardest yet Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2012 | |
| For someone with minimal experience on rugged mountains such as this one, I'd say that Pyramid Peak was the hardest yet. | |
| Posted Jun 27, 2012 4:20 pm | ||
| JonW | 2nd Hardest? Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2012 | |
| 14ers.com calls this the 2nd hardest 14er...I thought it was pretty easy. | |
| Posted Jun 25, 2012 9:02 am | ||
| Matt Lemke | Great climb! Date Climbed: Jun 9, 2012 | |
| Climbed the entire Green gully | |
| Posted Jun 13, 2012 6:39 pm | ||
| Kiefer Thomas | West Face Date Climbed: Jan 1, 2012 | |
| New Years Day summit with impeccable weather. Felt more like April really. Climbed with John Prater, Dominic & Sarah Meiser and Dwight. One awesome day! | |
| Posted Jan 2, 2012 12:32 pm | ||
| Ken Dammen | Standard route class 4 Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2010 | |
| Climbed the standard route with Dustin Kelley. This was the second attempt at this peak, due to poor weather on the first attempt. This was a beautiful day. Loose rock very dangerous with other climbers above you. | |
| Posted Nov 5, 2011 6:52 pm | ||
| xpda | Pyramid Date Climbed: Jul 25, 1999 | |
| Solo | |
| Posted Oct 29, 2011 1:10 pm | ||
| Ted Eliason | Indimidatingly easy Date Climbed: Aug 23, 2008 | |
| No other 14er in Colorado so far to me looks as scary from a distance but is so short, and suprisingly accessible close up. Will need to do in snow to see how that goes. | |
| Posted Oct 13, 2011 5:29 pm | ||
| sevenvii | Std Route fun Date Climbed: Aug 26, 2011 | |
| Nice scramble from the Maroon Lake trailhead. We joked that some people miss the giant, easy to find cairn that marks the turn off for the Pyramid trail, but we somehow missed it ourselves. Only lost 10 minutes or so, but no biggy. Overall the route is very enjoyable and I really enjoyed the scramble. | |
| Posted Aug 28, 2011 3:28 pm | ||
| zoomloco | goats! | |
| definitely a little chossy but not difficult. just dont drop rockfall on yr partner. the class 4 crux is solid though. the goat family was fun to hang with. aug 2010 | |
| Posted Jul 16, 2011 5:01 pm | ||
| Stegosaurus | Choss pile Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2009 | |
| Climbed NE ridge variation with Captain McIntosh. Got off route sometime after the saddle and ended up climbing the NE ridge proper and making plenty of moves we did not want to reverse on the way down. Followed the route on decent. Great day on the chossiest pile of a mountain I've yet visited. Million-dollar views of the Maroon Bells, Capitol and Snowmass. Got shut down the previous day at the 13600' saddle by a pissed off hail-and-lightning-spitting mountain and later heard stories (from guys who continued to the summit) of getting ravaged by hail and lightning and crying in the fetal position during their decent through the amphitheater. When the mountain says no, it means NO. Did I mention choss? | |
| Posted May 1, 2011 5:15 pm | ||
| Jeremy Hakes | FANTASTIC Date Climbed: Sep 29, 2001 | |
| One of the best. | |
| Posted Apr 23, 2011 4:37 pm | ||
| climbingfurry | Pyramid! | |
| The Elks are my backyard range and one of my favorites. | |
| Posted Jan 24, 2011 10:19 am | ||
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