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| thebeave7 | Purgatory Dayhike  Date Climbed: Aug 22, 2008 | |
| Dayhike run from the Purgatory trailhead. 42miles and 12000ft gain/loss over a beautiful route. Perfect weather and a great day out, though the trail was busy. The orange chute is miserable, but the scrambling along the ridge was fun. The final mantle onto the summit block is way over hyped in my opinion. | |
| Posted Aug 27, 2008 10:33 am | ||
| MollyL | Standard Route Date Climbed: Aug 17, 2008 | |
| Great trip from the train, to camping at Chicago Basin and a great climb up Sunlight - one of the best climbs yet! | |
| Posted Aug 22, 2008 2:36 pm | ||
| cftbq | Standard Route, partly cloudy Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2008 | |
| Five hours from a campsite in lower Chicago Basin. Every bit as nifty as advertised! Only partial clearing of the clouds, so views were limited, but still a great climb and a great summit. Stood on the actual summit boulder. | |
| Posted Aug 10, 2008 2:17 am | ||
| spannring29 | 12 of 14 Date Climbed: Jul 19, 2008 | |
| Twelfth of 14 14ers in 11 days. A lot of fun scrambling on this peak. We got a bit off route, but that only increased the fun of it all. Nice hop to the summit block, but the jump down gave me pause. | |
| Posted Aug 9, 2008 4:18 pm | ||
| MountainHikerCO | Third Time Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2008 | |
| We were fortunate with the weather. No rain the day we hiked in. The following day we started at 2:45 am. We lost the trail to Eolus for a stretch in the moonless dark after passing Twin Lakes. We got N Eolus first, then Eolus. It was then over to Sunlight. I have stood on that summit block before so this time I was content to tag the top. On the way down Sunlight we had some rain with hail. It cleared up though for our climb of Windom. We were back to camp at 11,500' at around 5:30. The goats were waiting for us! | |
| Posted Aug 5, 2008 10:37 pm | ||
| Kiefer Thomas | Standard Route Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2008 | |
| The scree march sucked. The ridge run and summit pitch were pretty exciting. Great views of the grenidiers. | |
| Posted Jul 25, 2008 5:06 am | ||
| chicagotransplant | Slab Alternate Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2008 | |
| Climbed with Jamie Nellis, we decided to skip the "leap of faith" and climb the slab on the left. I guess it is considered technically harder, but if you are comfortable slab climbing it is less committing than the "leap" route. | |
| Posted Jul 8, 2008 10:34 am | ||
| MountainHikerCO | Lightning Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2001 | |
| This was my second climb of Windom, Sunlight & Eolus. More significantly this group represented my wife finishing climbing all the fourteeners. We climbed N Eolus & Eolus first, then Sunlight and finished with Windom. There was lightning as we headed back into the valley. | |
| Posted Feb 25, 2008 9:45 pm | ||
| MountainHikerCO | From Silverton Date Climbed: Sep 4, 1994 | |
| This was my first climb of Windom, Sunlight & Eolus. I took the train from Silverton to save a day. After getting off the afternoon train at Needleton, I hiked up to treeline and made camp. I was hiking at first light the next morning. I did Windom first, then Sunlight, N Eolus and then Eolus. I climbed onto the summit rock twice. First I smeared up the side & took my own picture. Then some others arrived and I saw the step over move from the next rock. I climbed up again. This time I stood for a picture. After tearing down camp I hiked most of the way to the trailhead before sundown. I then caught the morning train to Silverton and drove back to Denver that afternoon. | |
| Posted Feb 25, 2008 9:42 pm | ||
| tomlauren | Windom - Sunlight - Eolus in a day Date Climbed: Aug 21, 2005 | |
| From camp in Chicago Basin, climbed the Northwest Face of Windom Peak, the South Slopes up to Sunlight Peak, and then the Northeast Ridge of Mount Eolus with my friend Jason. I didn't think that the jump/scramble to the summit of Sunlight Peak was that bad, but I also have a rock climbing background. | |
| Posted Jan 29, 2008 10:30 pm | ||
| GerryS | A classic Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2003 | |
| Beautiful day. The summit block in your back yard would be fun to play on. The summit block two hundred feet in the air is a bit scary. | |
| Posted Dec 1, 2007 11:41 pm | ||
| cacheshier | West Ridge (Class 4) Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2007 | |
| I climbed the West Ridge bypassing the 5th class climbing on the lowest portion of the ridge by traversing from the Red Couloir Route. What a great summit and mountain! | ||
| Posted Nov 21, 2007 3:33 pm | ||
| gremlin | normal route | |
| summit block is fun, but having a lightning and snow storm move in wasn't so fun | |
| Posted Oct 24, 2007 4:18 pm | ||
| s_tuning@msn.com | My Best 14er Yet! Date Climbed: Sep 8, 2007 | |
| Camped at 11,000 feet. This was the best peak I've done yet! The top 200 feet was fun and the move onto the summit block was great! | |
| Posted Sep 16, 2007 11:02 pm | ||
| dr_gonz | beautiful | |
| Ever looked down from the summit at the geo-marker? go try it. the rock was great up high. wonderful scramble. | |
| Posted Sep 5, 2007 1:46 pm | ||
| bernardhohman | Wow! Date Climbed: Jul 30, 2007 | |
| Fantastic place--all it was made out to be. Too bad the monsoon weather forced us to descend before we really wanted to leave. | |
| Posted Jul 31, 2007 11:03 am | ||
| Mike Mc | S. Slopes Date Climbed: Jul 21, 2007 | |
| Spectacular summit! The S.Slopes are a bit grungy, but well worth the final 100 feet. | |
| Posted Jul 29, 2007 6:38 pm | ||
| Scott Rogers | NICE!!! Date Climbed: Jul 6, 2007 | |
| My favorite climb so far. The last 20 feet is the coolest! The snow conditions were great as well. I wish the exposure got to me more... | |
| Posted Jul 11, 2007 9:59 pm | ||
| goat14er | South Slopes Date Climbed: Jul 27, 2006 | |
| I took the famous picture of TalusMonkey doing his 14ersJihad Captain Morgan shot here on the summit block. What a moment. Fun scramble! | |
| Posted May 24, 2007 6:19 pm | ||
| shknbke | South slopes Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2006 | |
| I was not looking forward to the climb of the summit block, so I didn't think about it for too long. I basically bear hugged the summit, spun around and hopped back down. I kept one hand on the block I hopped off of over the gap, but don't think about it for too long! | |
| Posted Sep 5, 2006 4:02 am | ||
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