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Gary making progress on the traverse from Little Bear to Blanca. Little Bear loams in the backgroung. Photo taken on June 5th, 2004
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[ Post a Comment ]| RyanS | incredible perspective... | | 
Voted 10/10 | ... of Little Bear. We saw you guys climbing up the Hourglass in the afternoon while we were descending, good job with the traverse! | | Posted Jun 7, 2004 11:03 am |
 | | xskier77 | Re: incredible perspective... | | 
Hasn't voted | Thanks, the traverse was incredible and loaded with exposure. Looking forward to see how the Bells traverse compares. | | Posted Jun 7, 2004 11:43 am |
| | RyanS | Re: incredible perspective... | |
Voted 10/10 | I've done the Bells traverse from south-to-north, and difficulty-wise, I don't see how it could compare to the LB-Blanca traverse. For one thing, it's a much shorter ridge traverse, and judging from your pics, the exposure is less and the moves are easier. It's great fun, though, with a spectacular position between those excellent peaks! | | Posted Jun 7, 2004 1:08 pm |
| | xskier77 | Re: incredible perspective... | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks for the info on the Bells traverse. I am planning on going up the Bell Cord couloir if snow condtions permit. Then ring South and do the traverse to North. I'll be sure to post pics after the trip :) | | Posted Jun 7, 2004 3:18 pm |
| | truchas | Re: incredible perspective... | | 
Voted 10/10 | I like the Little Bear Blanca traverse better. As far as sustained climbing, Little Bear outdoes the Maroon Bells traverse by a mile. But, the two cruxes on the Maroons traverse are more difficult than anything on the Little Bear traverse. Since you are doing the route from South to North you can do it without rope. The second crux is mid 5th class but there isn't much exposure. It's only about 20 ft. tall. | | Posted Jul 16, 2004 4:19 pm |
| | xskier77 | Re: incredible perspective... | |
Hasn't voted | Yeah I did the Maroon Bells traverse a few weeks ago. We climbed the Bell Cord Couloir and then did the traverse South to North. It was alot of fun and we did it without a rope. Just got back from doing Capitol this weekend. Now I just have Culebra and Pikes left. | | Posted Jul 19, 2004 1:08 am |
| | truchas | Re: incredible perspective... | |
Voted 10/10 | I was able to do Culebra before Pei bought it. Good luck. | | Posted Jul 19, 2004 8:09 am |
| | xskier77 | Re: incredible perspective... | |
Hasn't voted | Yeah hopefully I will get lucky with the CMC lottery....they have yet to announce details but the dates are going to be Aug 27,28, and 29 | | Posted Jul 19, 2004 8:38 pm |
| Diggler | Great shot! | | 
Voted 10/10 | I would love to do this traverse some day. Those clouds on a traverse like that in Colorado would have made me really uneasy- kudos for pushing through that! What is "loams?" | | Posted Jun 17, 2004 8:44 pm |
| | xskier77 | Re: Great shot! | |
Hasn't voted | The clouds didn't make me uneasy until I saw some lightning about .5 miles away. We climbed down off the ridge a bit and sat there until the storm passed and luckily it wasn't too bad at all. As for loam that was a typo that was supposed to say Looms. Whoops. | | Posted Jun 21, 2004 3:03 am |
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