Pete’s unfortunate collision Friday morning with a deer meant a slight delay of our weekend plans. So, with a Saturday morning free for once I made my first visit to Golden’s Farmer’s Market before Pete arrived in a rental that definitely wasn’t going to make it up to the Music Pass Trailhead. We hoped my [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Tijeras Peak and Music Mountain
Posted in backpacking, climbing, hiking, tagged Lower Sand Lake, Music Mountain, Music Pass, Sangre de Cristo Wilderness, Tijeras Peak on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cheesman and Montezuma’s Tower
Posted in climbing, tagged Cheesman Mountain, Garden of the Gods, Montezuma Tower, North Ridge on June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Pete and I were out to make up for our past failure on Cheesman Mountain in Jefferson County. This time we were coming prepared with a 60 meter static line, prussiks and some thinner cord to toss over the summit formation. We hiked up the shady side to Cheesman and were soon back under the [...]
Peak C
Posted in backpacking, climbing, hiking, tagged Gore Range, Peak C, Southwest Couloir on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The last forecast I’d seen for this area promised an overnight low near 37 degrees at 12,000 feet so I was excited to wake up a few times during the night and see 33-35 degrees on my thermometer here at 10,500 feet. About 6am John, Renata, Pete and I started up the now familiar trail [...]
Mount Powell
Posted in backpacking, climbing, hiking, tagged Gore Range, Kneeknocker Pass, Mount Powell, Upper Piney Trail on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
John, Renata, Pete and I made plans over a month ago to spend this weekend backpacking into the Gore Range via Piney Creek to attempt Mount Powell and Peak C. Saturday morning found us enjoying a beautiful day at the Piney River Ranch and setting off on a trail that pointed right at our objectives. [...]
Dreamweaver
Posted in climbing, tagged Dreamweaver, Mount Meeker on June 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Having missed celebrating National Trails Day on Saturday I sentence myself to an alpine start on Sunday and make plans to attend the huge alpine cathedral that is Chasm basin in Rocky Mountain National Park. 1:30am and the alarm wakes me from sleep. Thankfully, the radio wasn’t playing a certain pop song by Gary Wright [...]
Savage Couloir
Posted in climbing, tagged Savage Couloir, Savage Mountain on June 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The forecast wasn’t ideal for a snow climb – cloudy and not cold enough to really freeze up the route. 35 degrees at nearly 12,000 feet was the guess from NOAA. So I was understandably happy when the 4:50a alarm went off and I read 35 degrees at our 10,000 foot camp. I was less [...]
