Standard route up Grizzly Peak D?

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Standard route up Grizzly Peak D?

by JustinShapiro » Sun Oct 04, 2009 11:04 am

Does anyone know the standard route up Grizzly Peak D? I want to climb it this weekend but I am unsure how to approach it. Any advice would be extremely helpful.

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by natethor » Sun Oct 04, 2009 5:59 pm

EDIT:

Oops, wrong peak. Looks like 13ers.com has the wrong info for Grizzly Peak D too then, I looked up "Grizzly Peak D" on there just to make sure we were talking about the same one but apparently we weren't.
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by JustinShapiro » Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:04 pm

Thanks very much but I ment Grizzly Peak D in the Pieplant Quadrange. I should of clarified my self a little bit more, sorry about that.

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by chicagotransplant » Mon Oct 05, 2009 3:29 pm

Actually I think the Grizzly in the Pieplant Quad is Grizzly E, as it is the 5th tallest of the "Grizzly Peaks" in Colorado. (Grizzly D is the one by Loveland Pass)

I guess the route I descended could be considered the "standard route", but I am not sure how easy it would be to find from the Timberline Trail. I did the route after coming over to Grizzly via traverse with Jenkins and PT 13140. The lower part in the trees had a lot of bushwhacking to get back to the trail.

Basically, hike the Timberline Trail southeast from the Pieplant townsite for about 2 miles or so and then bushwhack up to you left until you reach treeline then ascend the large class 2 talus face above. It would be the south/southwest face of Grizzly. The face was steep, but it wasn't too difficult, just steep class 2 talus.

An alternate would be to bushwhack along the creek between PT 13140 and Grizzly and climb up to the saddle between Grizzly and 13140 and ascend Grizzly via the NE ridge.

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by John Kirk » Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:27 pm

This is a good example of why people should drop the letter suffix when referring to peaks. Referring to the quadrangle is a bit more helpful. This Grizzly isn't really popular enough to have a "standard" route. I did it as part of a six ranked peak traverse up its NE ridge (class 2):

http://listsofjohn.com/PeakStats/ascent ... 2007-07-04

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by JustinShapiro » Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:49 am

Ok guys thanks alot for the help.

It is Grizzy Peak E, I miscounted. Sorry about that natethor, it looks like you had the right peak after all. Very sorry about that.
When I did Jenkins I was figuring out how I could traverse over to Grizzly Peak so yea, I was just curious if there is a more popular route :D

Thanks again


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