Pikes Peak Climber's Log

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HeatherF

HeatherF - Jul 25, 2005 6:01 pm

Route Climbed: Pikes Peak Ascent from downtown Manitou Springs Date Climbed: August 22, 2004  Sucess!

Ouch.

pjenson05

pjenson05 - Jul 25, 2005 12:07 pm

Route Climbed: Bar Trail Date Climbed: August 2000  Sucess!

This is a long Climb. Carried a 50 lbs. pack up it as well. We camped at Bar camp. Great climb.

alpine master

alpine master - Jul 24, 2005 5:03 pm

Route Climbed: East slopes Date Climbed: Sept. 5th 2002  Sucess!

12 hours round trip including a one hour lunch at the summit. Alpine Master ate chili on the summit and about crapped himself on the way down. Devil Dog Dudeman was a hard charger. Great day!

CWFry

CWFry - Jul 15, 2005 5:00 pm

Route Climbed: Barr Trail Date Climbed: February 2003  Sucess!

Only person on top that day! Great feeling despite the cold and windy conditions. Started 1AM, finished 5PM. Couple hours sleep behind some logs half-way. It's depressing approaching at night, as the light on top of the summit buildings seems to stay equally far away no matter how many miles you cover. A truly excellent training mountian! 26 Miles, yeah!

Old Ickabod

Old Ickabod - Jul 14, 2005 10:37 pm

Route Climbed: Barr Trail Date Climbed: August 2003  Sucess!

12 hours round trip including a one hour lunch at the summit. Alpine Master ate chili on the summit and about crapped himself on the way down. Devil Dog Dudeman was a hard charger. Great day!

doumall

doumall - Jul 13, 2005 3:07 pm

Route Climbed: Barr Trail Date Climbed: July, 3 2004  Sucess!

20th 14er!

cornfed97

cornfed97 - Jul 12, 2005 12:27 am

Route Climbed: Barr Trail Date Climbed: August '04  Sucess!

1 day, round trip, first fourteener, what a day!!

Midlife Mountaineer

Midlife Mountaineer - Jun 25, 2005 11:18 pm

Route Climbed: Barr Trail Date Climbed: August 2001  Sucess!

I had been to the summit a few times via train ride but this was far more satisfying.

powstash

powstash - Jun 23, 2005 6:29 pm

Route Climbed: Barr Trail - Run Date Climbed: Aug 17, 2003  Sucess!

This was the second time I had run the Pikes Peak Marathon - certainly the strangest motive I've ever had to "climb" a peak. The Barr Trail is pretty straight forward. Just long and sustained, particularly the last 3K vert.. If I were hiking it, I'd bring along a water filter as there were a couple of seasonal streams that were still running in Aug which would provide water without having to carry it from the bottom. Past A frame it's wide open and typically windy up the last 3K vert.



I'll be back to run this but unless I really had to tick this peak on my list, I would opt for a more remote peak or a different route on Pikes, something on the southeast side.



georgbetsy

georgbetsy - Jun 18, 2005 11:35 pm

Route Climbed: Barr Trail Date Climbed: June 18th, 2005  Sucess!

Beautiful, hot weather. Great views. Exhausting, long hike. Interesting climate/scenery. Summit is an ugly parking lot! --> But I knew that beforehand.

Definitely a worthwile hike. Lots of very nice people on the trail. + several "confused" tourists that had no idea what it meant to hike 25+ miles and 7400 ft.

jrviel - May 28, 2005 9:10 pm

Route Climbed: Barr Trail Date Climbed: May 29, 2004  Sucess!

Last 3 miles had about 15% snow cover which made hiking a challenge.

myrone

myrone - May 23, 2005 4:40 pm

Route Climbed: From Crag's Campground Date Climbed: Sunday May 22,2005  Sucess!

Started up at 6:35AM with hard snow pack on the trail all the way up to tree line and beyond. I went up the ridge to the left of the saddle due to heavy snow. Crossed more snow going thru the notch at the rock wall near Devils Playground. Saw several race cars and motorcycles when crossing the road. Summited at 10:30AM stayed a half hour then back down, the warm weather made all the snow soft and postholing created more work heading down. Back to the car at 2:13PM, my 9th 14'er and another beautiful Colorado day, sweet!

ktiffany22

ktiffany22 - May 15, 2005 9:50 pm

Route Climbed: Barr Trail Date Climbed: May 31, 2004  Sucess!

Great day, hard work! ...but kinda makes you sick when you climb 7,400 feet in elevation, 13 miles in a day, and you get to the top only to find fat tourists eating hotdogs! ....dumb drivers!

csmcgranahan

csmcgranahan - Apr 2, 2005 8:39 pm

Route Climbed: Barr Trail Date Climbed: May 31, 2005  Sucess!

I saw relatively few people on this mid-week hike (at-least until the summit). Summited in about 6 hours after a pre-dawn start. Caught a ride down with my wife and her family who had driven up.

PikesPeak14110 - Feb 26, 2005 11:29 pm

Route Climbed: Road Date Climbed: July 9, 2004  Sucess!

We drove up. It was a scketchy way to get up but hey it's the highest ive been in my short lived 12 years on earth. My first 14er and 12th peak. My sisters 1st ever mountain. My dad was also with us, his 2nd time up the ole Pike.

pebblehopper - Feb 21, 2005 4:09 pm

Route Climbed: Barr Trail Date Climbed: August 1998  Sucess!

Pike's Peak Ascent....figure it counts as a first 14er. Cured my desire to run...permanently.

ColoradoScott

ColoradoScott - Feb 4, 2005 11:45 am

Route Climbed: Northwest Slopes from Crags Campground Date Climbed: August 4, 1985  Sucess!

I needed a nice long hike to prepare for Kit Carson the following weekend, so a buddy and I chose this one. I was surprised how remote and isolated we felt leaving the CG and hiking up a 14er on a very sketchy trail (it was almost 20 years ago). The solitude disappeared above timberline when we encountered the road and began climbing the tundra above it. Even stranger was the summit, where tourists from other states looked at us like Hillary and Tenzing!!! Oh, to be a flatlander with such low aspirations!

Rob A

Rob A - Jan 31, 2005 11:51 am

Route Climbed: Took the tram Date Climbed: Aug 1994  Sucess!

My first taste of the mountians. i was in grade school on family vacation. it was awsome. it was what got me hooked on the mountains.

Paul Morrill

Paul Morrill - Jan 12, 2005 4:21 pm

Route Climbed: Road from Cascade Date Climbed: September 1994  Sucess!

Scarry !!!!!!! No gardrails.............

F Bomb

F Bomb - Jan 5, 2005 11:01 am

Route Climbed: Barr Trail from Manitou Date Climbed: 7/15/00  Sucess!

My first fourteener and I thought I was climbing Everest. Got off trail a little bit and had to do some scrambling. Got to the top and expected the band to start, but it was just a bunch of old people asking me to move my feet. Not a very enjoyable fourteener for this reason. Done.

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