Quandary Peak Climber's Log : Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering : SummitPost

Quandary Peak Climber's Log

gimpilator - Sep 15, 2009 12:37 am Date Climbed: Sep 9, 2009

East Ridge

I really wanted to try the west ridge but decided not to since I was solo. Ran into a small family of mountain goats on the way up. See my Trip Report about doing seven 14ers in eight days.

harryquach - Aug 26, 2009 11:41 am Date Climbed: Feb 25, 2007

East Ridge

Hiked the East Ridge. Very cold and windy. Only stayed on top for a few minutes. Coldest day I have had in the mountains

growski - Aug 20, 2009 10:23 am Date Climbed: Aug 17, 2009

east ridge

wonderful views...

mountainzen107 - Aug 10, 2009 8:32 pm Date Climbed: Dec 15, 2008

Winter storm on Quandary

A cold/awesome/windy adventure in the middle of winter at 14,000 ft! very fun, and surprisingly we weren't the only party on the mountain. the winds at the summit must have been at least 80 mph.

Dangers Pop - Aug 9, 2009 2:39 pm Date Climbed: Aug 4, 2009

East Ridge

0900 start with Hootie. Great weather with a little wind on top. Excellent views! Spotted mountain goats on the way down. Easy, straight forward hike.

Ken Dammen - Aug 4, 2009 10:49 pm Date Climbed: Aug 4, 2009

Eastern Ridge

Did this one solo today. 9th Colorado 14er...10th 14er overall. Great day weather wise...lots and lots of other hikers..too crowded for me. Nice trail..easy 14er.

bruceg - Jul 30, 2009 9:01 pm Date Climbed: Sep 3, 1989

Great climb

Ninth peak this week!

Pete Castricone - Jul 27, 2009 5:30 pm Date Climbed: Jul 27, 2009

Standard Route

Well maintained trail.

Chad Couch - Jul 24, 2009 4:37 pm Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2003

A great July 4th...

One of the easiest days I've ever had in the mountains...

Pennington - Jul 24, 2009 1:27 am Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2009

Eastern Slopes. Started 0525, summit 1000. Saw big cat tracks just below treeline. Lots of goats to be seen. Perfect weather. Great day!!

Alex Wood - Jul 19, 2009 2:29 pm Date Climbed: Jul 17, 2009

5th 14er on the day

We decided to do Quandary after doing Democrat, Lincoln, Cameron and Bross. We started late for that combo so we started Quandary at 4:00pm. We made it down by 8pm. Lots of mountain goats and great views. Almost everyone was off the mountain so it was kinda nice to have a 14er to yourself

belexes - Jul 12, 2009 4:03 pm Date Climbed: Jul 11, 2009

Quandary Trail

I led this trip with 4 other hikers through meetup.com. The place was a madhouse. We arrived at the trailhead just after 6AM, and there were already a whole bunch of cars parked along McCullough Gulch Road, and more coming in behind us. We reached the summit around 8:45 and there was a good sized crowd up there. There is still some snow up on the summit ridge. Weather was great, a little windy up top, but it was sunny, with great views. When we got back down to Point 13146, we could see a great big conga line of people headed up to the summit. We saw a couple of mountain goats hanging around the trail on the way down. A great day all in all.

Liba Kopeckova - Jul 8, 2009 4:18 am

Nice winter climg

One of the easiest winter forteeners. Great glissade on the way back.

er185005 - Jul 3, 2009 6:58 pm Date Climbed: Dec 15, 2008

Winter is the best

Short climb only about four hours but very cold and windy. Could only see about ten feet in front of me the entire way. Went with a friend but we both were out of each others site for most of the climb. thank god for GPS.

Steve Larson - Jul 2, 2009 8:59 pm Date Climbed: Jul 2, 2009

East Ridge

Nice, easy hike. Spectacular view. Wish I had my dog along--she would have loved it!

dakotaconcrete - Jun 30, 2009 3:25 pm Date Climbed: May 4, 2009

Close but no cigar!

Came to within a hundred feet of the summit via the standard eastern ridge. The wind was oppressive and limited visibility to approximately 20 or 30 feet. Very worth while though as it proved extremely gratifying have made it as far as we did!