I hadn’t hiked with the CMC for two months, but a scheduled hike of Longs Peak via the Loft route attracted my interest. Longs was a peak that I wanted to attempt, but I hadn’t been excited about taking the normal Keyhole route up and down the mountain. We left the trailhead around 5:30a, something [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Loft Route on Longs
Posted in climbing, Colorado 14ers, hiking, Lord of Pain, tagged Colorado 14ers, Colorado Mountain Club, Loft Route, Longs Peak on August 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Citadel to Pettingell
Posted in climbing, hiking, tagged climbing, hiking, Pettingell Peak, the Citadel on August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was a little nervous approaching the Citadel to Pettingell Peak traverse. Most the route has a technical difficulty of Class 3-4 which is in line with what I’ve been doing lately. However, there’s one cliff on the ridge traverse that is rated 5.4 (technical climbing) that I’d have to downclimb or rappel. I was [...]
Grander Traverse
Posted in backpacking, climbing, hiking, tagged backpacking, climbing, Gore Range, Grand Traverse, Grand Traverse Peak, hiking, North Traverse Peak on August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Grand Traverse is a classic ridge scramble between North Traverse Peak and Grand Traverse Peak in the Gore Range. The most common way to approach this climb is to hike up Bighorn Creek to reach North Traverse Peak, perform the traverse then descend into the Deluge Lake valley for the hike out. Doing this [...]
Cataraft on the Gunnison
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cataraft, Gunnison River on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Davin, Grant and I shuttled some cars around the Gunnison area and ended up with Davin’s cataraft ready to launch on the Gunnison River opposite Garlic Mike’s at the put-in. Davin hadn’t run this section of the river before, but we knew we’d pass through the whitewater park in Gunnison. After he swept the bow [...]
Poverty Gulch
Posted in hiking, tagged hiking on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Grant and I had a late start to our day, but decided to drive to the upper end of the Slate Creek drainage at Poverty Gulch and try to hike to Mount Augusta. We followed an old road to the site of the Augusta Mine, then scrambled up rocks to the basin above. We had [...]
US Grant Peak
Posted in backpacking, climbing, hiking, tagged backpacking, climbing, hiking, US Grant peak on August 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My brother Grant has wanted to climb “his” peak, US Grant Peak, for some time. When I researched it and discovered that there was a technical section, I offered to help him reach the summit. So we met up in Crested Butte and made the drive down near Silverton. Grant and I arrived at the [...]
Capitol Peak
Posted in backpacking, climbing, Colorado 14ers, hiking, tagged backpacking, Capitol Peak, climbing, Colorado 14ers, hiking on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The rain in the Vail area stopped by the time I drove past Edwards. In Glenwood Springs, a store clerk told me it hadn’t rained there at all today. So I continued to Capitol Peak’s trailhead and started my hike in under clearing skies. Capitol Peak at first stayed hidden by the clouds, but soon [...]
West Partner Peak
Posted in backpacking, climbing, hiking, tagged backpacking, climbing, Gore Range, hiking, West Partner Peak on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Plans kept changing on me until Saturday morning. After a lazy start I made the drive up to Vail and hiked a few miles into the Gore Range on the Booth Creek Trail. The were cloudy and threatened rain the whole way. After 45 minutes of hiking through pretty aspen forests I reached Booth Creek [...]
Oh-be-joyful trail
Posted in hiking, tagged hiking on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I won’t go into all the reasons why Grant and I didn’t start hiking until noon today. Suffice to say it involved more beer than is healthy for an alpine start and a scrappy, back-alley game of Four Square that nearly came to blows. So we borrowed a 4×4 vehicle again and headed to the [...]
