For Sunday’s hike Pete and I selected Kenosha Pass because it had the best forecast of anywhere within a two hour’s drive. Plus, I’d driven over the pass the day prior and saw no snow so we guessed we’d have an easy hike. “Cone Master” is guidebook author Gerry Roach’s name for the 3-peak link [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Cone Master
Posted in hiking, tagged Cone Master, Kenosha Pass, Lost Creek Wilderness, Mount Blaine, North Twin Cone Peak, South Twin Cone Peak on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
McCurdy Park peaks (again)
Posted in climbing, hiking, tagged 11460, 11762, Brookside-McCurdy Trail, Lost Creek Wilderness, Twin Eagles Trailhead on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
John, Renata and I originally planned to go after the peak 11180, which had a small technical section and resided just NE of McCurdy Peak in the Lost Creek Wilderness. However, new snow in the last week meant the long approach from the Twin Eagles trailhead meant we had to shorten our objectives. I’d already [...]
Wigwam Peaks
Posted in hiking, Lord of Pain, tagged Goose Creek Trail, Lost Creek Wilderness, The Wigwam, Wigwam Park Peak, Wigwam Trail on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Armed with a perfect weather forecast I decided to take a Monday off and go into peak-bagger mode. For a goal, I chose 5 peaks on the southeast side of the Lost Creek Wilderness, all unnamed. A bit after 7am I left the Wigwam trailhead, walked the Wigwam trail for nearly 2 minutes, then headed [...]
Whitney Peak
Posted in hiking, tagged Fall Creek Pass, Fall Creek Trail, Holy Cross Road, Holy Cross Wilderness, Seven Sisters Lakes, Whitney Peak on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At 4:35am in a Walmart parking lot Pete and I squared off in a strange tactical game of blinking and yawning. The object was to convince the other person that we were the more tired so that they’d volunteer to drive. Our yawning match proved a stalemate and Pete broke protocol by blatantly suggesting I [...]
Redgarden Wall
Posted in climbing, tagged Eldorado Springs, Icarus, Redgarden Wall, Swanson Arete, Zot Face on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Original plans to travel far from town for the weekend broke down and Jeremy and I decided to hit some several pitch trad classics in Eldo. He’d recently climbed Rewritten (5.7) on the Redgarden Wall so directed us back to that area. We were looking at a couple easier climbs, but first had to reach [...]
McCurdy Park peaks
Posted in climbing, hiking, tagged Brookside-McCurdy Trail, hiking, Lost Creek Wilderness, McCurdy Park, Twin Eagles Trailhead on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The weekend on the front range had been cold and wet with forecasted sun and higher temps never arriving. Not knowing what to expect in the Lost Creek Wilderness, I had way too much in my pack as we left the Twin Eagles Trailhead. The curving Brookside-McCurdy trail led us around private property and through [...]
White Ranch Park
Posted in hiking, tagged hiking, White Ranch Park on October 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve become a weather wimp since moving to Colorado. Over-endowed with sunny days, the climate leaves me unprepared for those rare wet weekends. After excusing my way out of any hikes Saturday, I made plans with Helen to hike on Sunday so I wouldn’t back out. With just a morning available we headed to White [...]
Elevenmmile Canyon
Posted in climbing, tagged Arch Rock, Arch Rock Route, Armaj Das, Elevenmile Canyon, Hollow Flake, Jaws, Jolly Jugular, Pine Cone Dome, rock climbing, Staircase, Turret Dome on October 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Friday evening driving through Colorado Springs and west on US 24 eventually produces the traffic thinning we were looking for. Pink granite boulders sprout out of hillsides as we near Lake George and we know we’re close, even before the iPhone told us so. Light fades as we setup tents in the Riverside campground and [...]
