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| shknbke | Square Top/Argentine  Date Climbed: Mar 24, 2006 | |
| Climbed Square Top & Argentine from Guanella Pass on a stellar early spring day. This was the most snow I have seen up here in 3 visits to the area. I climbed the east ridge to avoid any avy danger. The traverse across the willows wasn't bad. | |
| Posted Mar 27, 2006 4:54 am | ||
| Kiefer Thomas | square top Date Climbed: Mar 21, 2006 | |
| The morning stared out beautiful and sunny with plenty of fresh powder from the previous nights storm. It clouded up in the afternoon and got cold. I went from a t-shirt and no hat or gloves in the morning to a full Burton ski jacket, gloves, fleece hat AND hoodie & ski goggles by 2:00pm. It was a good, long, strenous day though. | |
| Posted Mar 23, 2006 2:40 am | ||
| Mountain Jim | From Guanella Pass Date Climbed: Apr 19, 1967 | |
| Total ascents = 5. Good early season 13'er, as long as avalanche condtions are minimal. | |
| Posted Mar 4, 2006 9:09 pm | ||
| markhyams | from Guanella Pass Date Climbed: Sep 7, 1998 | |
| Short and sweet. My buddy even went swimming in one of those alpine tarns you pass on the way. | |
| Posted Mar 3, 2006 4:42 pm | ||
| Larry V | Route Climbed: northeast ridge, Guanella Pass Date Climbed: January 14, 2006 | |
| Climbed with fellow SP member, Woodie. There were two other climbing parties on the mountain besides us. Nice views of Grays and Torreys. It was an unusually warm day, with record high temps in Denver, and about 25F on the summit at 10:45 a.m. | |
| Posted Jan 15, 2006 10:02 pm | ||
| Woodie Hopper | Route Climbed: Guanella Pass Date Climbed: January 14th, 2006 Date Climbed: Jan 14, 2006 | |
| Climbed with Larry V during winter Colorado SP outing. Great hike- we couldn't have had better luck with the weather. Snowshoes would have been helpful but not necessary. | |
| Posted Jan 15, 2006 12:14 am | ||
| chicagotransplant | Route Climbed: West Ridge via Argentine Peak Date Climbed: July 4, 2005 | |
| Want to avoid the crowds on the 4th? Climb Square Top, I didn't see anyone else the entire route. | |
| Posted Jan 9, 2006 8:58 pm | ||
| smudge | Route Climbed: Guanella Pass Date Climbed: Oct. 4, 2005 | |
| NIce hike, but at 13k a system moved in and the visibility dropped to about 20 yards. I went on to the summit but will have to save Argentine/Wilcox for another day. I wish I could have seen the great views! | |
| Posted Oct 4, 2005 4:03 pm | ||
| shanahan96 | Route Climbed: Guanella Pass Loop Date Climbed: September 20, 2005 | |
| Another easy day in the mountains. Really surprised to see a trail so much of the way, but that was great. My first bicentennial. jamie | |
| Posted Sep 20, 2005 5:29 pm | ||
| Steven Cross | Route Climbed: Guanella Pass Date Climbed: Sep. 5, 2005 | |
| Had a short day at work, got off at 12:00 so I headed up to Guanella Pass. Started the hike at 2:19 and made it to the top at 4:38. Great views, wonderful hike. | |
| Posted Sep 10, 2005 11:32 pm | ||
| filmgaffer | Route Climbed: East route Date Climbed: August 7 2005 | |
| Another beautiful day in Colorado. Enjoyed this trail and mountain | |
| Posted Aug 7, 2005 5:32 pm | ||
| Foxy Long Bottoms | Route Climbed: Guanella Pass Date Climbed: 2/03 | |
| Fun winter slog. | |
| Posted Jun 21, 2005 1:19 pm | ||
| belexes | Route Climbed: Guanella Pass Date Climbed: June 2, 2005 | |
| I hiked this with the Colorado Mountain Club. The weather looked pretty bad from Denver, but it cleared up a little when we got to the trailhead. It was pretty windy and cold above Square Top Lakes, and there were some ominous clouds over Evans and Bierstadt. We were only on the summit for a few minutes when the leader ordered us back down: he had seen lightning around Bierstadt, so we boogied back down as fast as we could. | |
| Posted Jun 2, 2005 9:09 pm | ||
| altitude14er | Route Climbed: From Guenella Pass Date Climbed: 05/2004 | |
| Me and asphazell dawned our cramp ons on the final stretch of the North East Ridge in route to the summit | |
| Posted Mar 20, 2005 8:18 pm | ||
| Asphazell | Route Climbed: Guanella Pass Date Climbed: April 2004 | |
| What a great spring climb! We camped at roughly 11,800...melted snow for our dinners, shared a cigar and watched the sunrise. Awoke early to crampon up the north-eastern ridge and were met with perfect snow conditions. | |
| Posted Mar 1, 2005 3:24 pm | ||
| ColoradoScott | Route Climbed: ESE Ridge from Square Top Lakes Date Climbed: May 25, 1986 | |
| A nice high altitude mountain that has safe routes and easy access year round. | |
| Posted Feb 8, 2005 5:22 pm | ||
| miztflip | Route Climbed: Northeast Ridge Date Climbed: December 12, 2004 | |
| The word of the day was "Lenticular", extremely high winds and cold temps did nothing to take away from an exceptional hike with my wife. The NE ridge provided uniterrupted views all around, the snow was almost non-existent except in the willows. We encountered an upclose herd of mountain goats numbering over 35. All in all a great winter hike. | |
| Posted Dec 12, 2004 5:48 pm | ||
| CharlesD | Route Climbed: ascent from Guanella Pass of NE ridge, descent of SE slopes Date Climbed: October 30, 2004 | |
| A beautiful, easy hike made much harder by sustained 30 mph winds and sub-zero windchill. Reasonably hard snow meant no snowshoing. The Divide was cloud-shrouded all day and tendrils of that cloud kept blowing in over and through. Square Top, however, was sufficiently east that everything except the summit itself was crystal clear. Great mountain with spectacular scenery, good access and a little bit of everything. | |
| Posted Oct 31, 2004 9:05 am | ||
| granddeity | Route Climbed: Southeast ridge from Guanella Pass Date Climbed: June 13, 2004 | |
| I got to the trailhead at 0730, to the lower lake at 0815 and the summit by 1000. Hung out on the summit and searched for the summit register until 1045. Arrived back at trailhead by 1230. The willows were not a problem. It was a beautiful day, perfect for hiking. | ||
| Posted Jul 15, 2004 3:11 pm | ||
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