bc44caesar - Feb 16, 2004 1:13 pm Date Climbed: Mar 26, 2002
Route Climbed: Standard Route Date Climbed: 26 Mar 2002
21 Mar 2005 - Standard
First hike of my 13 day vacation to Central Mexico. Flew into Mexico City, stayed the night in Tlaxcala, took a bus to Apizaco the next day, and a cab up to the resort (cost me $180 pesos). Reached the summit after 3.5 hrs with about five or six dogs. Left my fleece hat and gloves on the mountain which made things unpleasant on the later volcanoes!
26 Mar 2002 - Standard
Nice day - lots of folks on the mountain - first "14er" and first time I reached a summit!
Route Climbed: Standard Route Date Climbed: January 2004
This was my eleventh attempt on Malinche and the first time i did not summit. We were going for a night hike, planning to summit at about midnight. We were moving very slowly due to some people in our group not used to the mountains. One of my friends drank two and a half liters of gatorade all in one rest stop and immediately got sick and vomitted a lot, but he still pushed on. We made it to the treeline (about 13,000 feet), and it started snowing. It was beautiful. In ten minutes the ground was white. I really wanted to go on then, but now we had two sick people in our group, so we turned around. It was still a very enjoyable trip. =-)
Route Climbed: Standard Route Date Climbed: Jan. 12, 2004
Camped at the IMSS resort. (Nice place, way too many stray dogs barking all night!) Good hike. The trail was easy to follow. Climb got a little loose at around 13,000 with several hundred feet of scree. Perfect views from the summit of Orizaba to the east and Izta/Popo to the west.
Route Climbed: Standard Route Date Climbed: January 3, 2003
It was a beautiful climb again. I think this was my tenth summit on Malinche and my twenty-third time over 14,000 feet. The hike was made a little more challenging this time, because a couple days prior to the trip, i was give a tetanus shot, and i had a very bad reaction to it. It gave me a fever, and my arm swelled up and hurt quite a bit with very little movment in my left arm. Also, the night before, i stayed at some friends' house and played cards till 5 in the morning and got up at about 5:30 A.M. Nevertheless, another great trip in my Creator's beautiful creation. I plan to post some photos when they are developed. =-)
Route Climbed: Standard Route Date Climbed: May 18 2002
This was a very difficult climb for me (my 1st for such a short period of time - 4 hours), but with determination I completed it. It was a cloudy day, and couldnt see much, but the clouds were flowing like a waterfall over the ridge - it was beautiful. My boyfriend and I took the local bus back to Puebla that night.
Route Climbed: Standard/North Date Climbed: March-16-2003
After attempting Izta with bad weather a day before, we climbed La Malinche in beautiful weather as part of our acclimatization for Pico de Orizaba. I greatly underestimated this mountain: at the end I realized that it is not as easy as I first thought. We had great views of Orizaba from the summit.
Route Climbed: Standard Route Date Climbed: February 22, 2003
This was my ninth time up Malinche and my twentieth time over 14,000 feet. It was a fun slow climb with a bunch of friends. 18 out of the 21 of us who started out in the morning summitted. For many, it was their first time above tree line and at considerable altitude. It was a pretty clear day, and we could see the surrounding mountains well. Popocatepetl looked very quiet despite an early morning eruption that rattled doors and windows and woke up me and many others. Just when we had descended below tree line (where you can no longer see Popo), we heard another explosion and soon the ash cloud came right over us. It was too bad that we didn't see that eruption when we were on the summit.
I took some nice photos, and if they develop well i'll post them. =-)
Route Climbed: Tourist Route Date Climbed: December 31, 2002
Climbed with ScottyS, left just before dark and ascended via headlamp, made the 4500' and the 12 or so mile roundtrip in about 4.5 hours. Being new years eve, we enjoyed viewing the fireworks below. There were a couple of tourists setting up camp just below the summit
Route Climbed: Standard Route Date Climbed: December 11, 2002
This was my 8'th time up Malinche, and i think it was my 18'th time above 14,000 feet. Great hike, a lot of fun and a great way to get energy out. Met some very nice people from Canada on the summit. Climbing is a great way to meet nice people.
The weather was perfect (as most consider perfect; i always prefer climbing in snow, but today was the next best thing). Malinche is a fun day-hike all around. =-)
Route Climbed: Standard Route (North Ridge) Date Climbed: November 25, 2002
Started out from our IMSS cabin at 4:07am. Got off route while in the forest and ended up climbing the left north chute of the thumb rock that you see from Puebla. This was where the 3 dogs that followed me stopped. After the thumb rock I had to downclimb towards the saddle on the north ridge. Picked up the correct trail and got to the summit at 8:33am. Clear day, but windy. Left the summit at 9:07am and was back at our IMSS cabin at 10:50am.
Route Climbed: standard route Date Climbed: May 18 2002
I enjoyed this climb immensely, it was a cloudy day with intervals of hiking in dense clouds followed by periods of clear blue sky. The hike lasted about 4 hours and was the first serious summit scramble for my girlfriend. I have to say that I was disgusted with the graffiti adorning the summit, but overall for both an enjoyable day hike and as a tune up for Izta it is well worth the trip as climbing 4000 vertical feet in such a short time up to almost 15000 is a challenging task to say the least!
Route Climbed: Standard Route Date Climbed: January 20 ,2002
We climbed the standard route with about a thousand locals that day. The presence of snow had brought out the crowds to enjoy a nice day in the snow. Definitely an experience. We saw everything from elderly ladies with dresses and low sided shoes to groups roped together with electrical cord. (All of which were moving faster than we were.) We summited with a local dog that had decided to attach itself to us. See my trip report.
Route Climbed: Normal Route Date Climbed: December 30, 2001
Reached the summit in about 5 hours from the IMSS resort. The hike up through the forest was quite nice and there was much more snow on the mountain than I expected. Since we were there on a weekend, the resort and the mountain were flooded with people and I posed for lots of pictures with Mexican climbers on the way down. The mountain is perfect for acclimatization and is a good climb in its own right as well. For more details of my climb on La Malinche, check out my Trip Report.
Route Climbed: Standard Route Date Climbed: February 22, 2000
Started from the government camp, (IMSS) with girlfriend, made up in 2:30 hrs. The trail is easy to find. This is a good acclimation hike for Izta and Orizaba.
bc44caesar - Feb 16, 2004 1:13 pm Date Climbed: Mar 26, 2002
Route Climbed: Standard Route Date Climbed: 26 Mar 200221 Mar 2005 - Standard
First hike of my 13 day vacation to Central Mexico. Flew into Mexico City, stayed the night in Tlaxcala, took a bus to Apizaco the next day, and a cab up to the resort (cost me $180 pesos). Reached the summit after 3.5 hrs with about five or six dogs. Left my fleece hat and gloves on the mountain which made things unpleasant on the later volcanoes!
26 Mar 2002 - Standard
Nice day - lots of folks on the mountain - first "14er" and first time I reached a summit!
climber21 - Jan 24, 2004 2:56 pm
Route Climbed: Standard Route Date Climbed: January 2004This was my eleventh attempt on Malinche and the first time i did not summit. We were going for a night hike, planning to summit at about midnight. We were moving very slowly due to some people in our group not used to the mountains. One of my friends drank two and a half liters of gatorade all in one rest stop and immediately got sick and vomitted a lot, but he still pushed on. We made it to the treeline (about 13,000 feet), and it started snowing. It was beautiful. In ten minutes the ground was white. I really wanted to go on then, but now we had two sick people in our group, so we turned around. It was still a very enjoyable trip. =-)
chasej - Jan 22, 2004 10:20 am
Route Climbed: Standard Route Date Climbed: Jan. 12, 2004Camped at the IMSS resort. (Nice place, way too many stray dogs barking all night!) Good hike. The trail was easy to follow. Climb got a little loose at around 13,000 with several hundred feet of scree. Perfect views from the summit of Orizaba to the east and Izta/Popo to the west.
climber21 - Jan 6, 2004 1:00 pm
Route Climbed: Standard Route Date Climbed: January 3, 2003It was a beautiful climb again. I think this was my tenth summit on Malinche and my twenty-third time over 14,000 feet. The hike was made a little more challenging this time, because a couple days prior to the trip, i was give a tetanus shot, and i had a very bad reaction to it. It gave me a fever, and my arm swelled up and hurt quite a bit with very little movment in my left arm. Also, the night before, i stayed at some friends' house and played cards till 5 in the morning and got up at about 5:30 A.M. Nevertheless, another great trip in my Creator's beautiful creation. I plan to post some photos when they are developed. =-)
Rachel - Dec 11, 2003 4:14 pm
Route Climbed: Standard Route Date Climbed: May 18 2002This was a very difficult climb for me (my 1st for such a short period of time - 4 hours), but with determination I completed it. It was a cloudy day, and couldnt see much, but the clouds were flowing like a waterfall over the ridge - it was beautiful. My boyfriend and I took the local bus back to Puebla that night.
jasonconnell - Sep 26, 2003 3:49 am
Route Climbed: Normal Date Climbed: April 1997Only summit I actually did get on this trip to mexico.
Great day hike from the resort.
Brice Neugebauer - Aug 30, 2003 9:31 am
Route Climbed: Standard from IMSS Date Climbed: 09 Feb 2003-
pacojgarza - Mar 27, 2003 1:17 am
Route Climbed: Standard/North Date Climbed: March-16-2003After attempting Izta with bad weather a day before, we climbed La Malinche in beautiful weather as part of our acclimatization for Pico de Orizaba. I greatly underestimated this mountain: at the end I realized that it is not as easy as I first thought. We had great views of Orizaba from the summit.
For more details, check my Orizaba trip report.
climber21 - Feb 24, 2003 7:58 am
Route Climbed: Standard Route Date Climbed: February 22, 2003This was my ninth time up Malinche and my twentieth time over 14,000 feet. It was a fun slow climb with a bunch of friends. 18 out of the 21 of us who started out in the morning summitted. For many, it was their first time above tree line and at considerable altitude. It was a pretty clear day, and we could see the surrounding mountains well. Popocatepetl looked very quiet despite an early morning eruption that rattled doors and windows and woke up me and many others. Just when we had descended below tree line (where you can no longer see Popo), we heard another explosion and soon the ash cloud came right over us. It was too bad that we didn't see that eruption when we were on the summit.
I took some nice photos, and if they develop well i'll post them. =-)
ScottyS - Jan 11, 2003 3:04 am
Route Climbed: Standard Route Date Climbed: 12-31-02Climbed with bearbnz New Year's Eve with headlamps. Only 2:49 to summit from the Nat'l Park campground. Nice view.
bearbnz - Jan 8, 2003 10:11 pm
Route Climbed: Tourist Route Date Climbed: December 31, 2002Climbed with ScottyS, left just before dark and ascended via headlamp, made the 4500' and the 12 or so mile roundtrip in about 4.5 hours. Being new years eve, we enjoyed viewing the fireworks below. There were a couple of tourists setting up camp just below the summit
climber21 - Dec 11, 2002 8:23 pm
Route Climbed: Standard Route Date Climbed: December 11, 2002This was my 8'th time up Malinche, and i think it was my 18'th time above 14,000 feet. Great hike, a lot of fun and a great way to get energy out. Met some very nice people from Canada on the summit. Climbing is a great way to meet nice people.
The weather was perfect (as most consider perfect; i always prefer climbing in snow, but today was the next best thing). Malinche is a fun day-hike all around. =-)
forjan - Dec 4, 2002 2:35 pm
Route Climbed: Standard Route (North Ridge) Date Climbed: November 25, 2002Started out from our IMSS cabin at 4:07am. Got off route while in the forest and ended up climbing the left north chute of the thumb rock that you see from Puebla. This was where the 3 dogs that followed me stopped. After the thumb rock I had to downclimb towards the saddle on the north ridge. Picked up the correct trail and got to the summit at 8:33am. Clear day, but windy. Left the summit at 9:07am and was back at our IMSS cabin at 10:50am.
edouet - Oct 26, 2002 2:19 am
Route Climbed: Normal Route Date Climbed: 10 / 11 Dec 2001Escorted by a dog from IMSS Resort to the summit .
Wonderful sunset on POPO .
Slept under a cave at about 4100 m, then climbed back in the following morning ( all the time with the dog ) .
The sun rose just beside the Orizaba, and POPO smoke towards IZTA : magic !
El Tigre Valderrama - Jun 15, 2002 9:50 pm
Route Climbed: Normal, from ISMS Resort Date Climbed: DEcember 30 2001At the top in more or less 6 hours with my wife Annica and Tom Fralich who was ahead. Nice mountain, for aclimatization.
patow - May 24, 2002 3:51 pm
Route Climbed: Standard route Date Climbed: October 2001Great weather, not one speck of snow.
tlogan - May 20, 2002 2:02 pm
Route Climbed: standard route Date Climbed: May 18 2002I enjoyed this climb immensely, it was a cloudy day with intervals of hiking in dense clouds followed by periods of clear blue sky. The hike lasted about 4 hours and was the first serious summit scramble for my girlfriend. I have to say that I was disgusted with the graffiti adorning the summit, but overall for both an enjoyable day hike and as a tune up for Izta it is well worth the trip as climbing 4000 vertical feet in such a short time up to almost 15000 is a challenging task to say the least!
Hammer - Apr 23, 2002 3:36 am
Route Climbed: Standard Route Date Climbed: January 20 ,2002We climbed the standard route with about a thousand locals that day. The presence of snow had brought out the crowds to enjoy a nice day in the snow. Definitely an experience. We saw everything from elderly ladies with dresses and low sided shoes to groups roped together with electrical cord. (All of which were moving faster than we were.) We summited with a local dog that had decided to attach itself to us. See my trip report.
Tom Fralich - Jan 30, 2002 9:14 am
Route Climbed: Normal Route Date Climbed: December 30, 2001Reached the summit in about 5 hours from the IMSS resort. The hike up through the forest was quite nice and there was much more snow on the mountain than I expected. Since we were there on a weekend, the resort and the mountain were flooded with people and I posed for lots of pictures with Mexican climbers on the way down. The mountain is perfect for acclimatization and is a good climb in its own right as well. For more details of my climb on La Malinche, check out my Trip Report.
Guilty - Nov 16, 2001 3:35 pm
Route Climbed: Standard Route Date Climbed: February 22, 2000Started from the government camp, (IMSS) with girlfriend, made up in 2:30 hrs. The trail is easy to find. This is a good acclimation hike for Izta and Orizaba.