With a weather forecast that was far more winter-like than the previous couple weekends, I decided to stay a little lower. Around 8,000 feet I found portions of the Ben Tyler trail leading into the Lost Creek Wilderness bare. Soon the trail headed into the woods and a sheltered valley. Snow was no consistent, but [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Ben Tyler Trail
Posted in hiking, tagged Ben Tyler Trail, Lost Creek Wilderness on January 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
South Sheeprock Group
Posted in climbing, hiking, tagged Cheesman Overlook, South Sheeprock on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
After four days of squinting at snow crystals, wrapping my brain around crystal metamorphism and digging pits in the snow, I was ready to look at something dry and non-white. Pete and I formulated plans to hit some of the ranked and un-ranked peaks just south of Sheeprock and invited Kevin to join us. While [...]
Avalanche Level Two
Posted in skiing, tagged Alpine World Ascents, avalanche, Avalanche Level Two, backcountry skiing, Loveland Pass, No Name Basin, Pass Lake on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of my goals for 2010 was to complete an AIARE Level 2 Avalanche Course. Alpine World Ascents offered a course that fit my schedule so I found myself in Boulder spending a Thursday with 4 backcountry skiers and our instructor, Tim Brown, reviewing a few concepts from our Level 1 courses and laying the [...]
Lake City Ice Park
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ice climbing, Lake City, Lake City Ice Park on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dwight and I drove from Golden to Lake City on Friday evening looking for a weekend of ice climbing. Ouray’s much larger ice park would be packed this weekend with their Ice Festival, so we choose the smaller and much less well known Lake City. There we met up with Jean and Ken and planned [...]
Mount Columbia
Posted in backpacking, Colorado 14ers, hiking, tagged Horn Fork Basin, Mount Columbia, winter backpacking on January 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
After the evening light faded on Harvard it chilled off quickly. Water bottles and thermoses were topped off with hot water slowly derived from melted snow (our well had drifted in during the day) and tested before leaks before being crammed into sleeping bags. Trying to pass 10 hours in a sleeping bag can be [...]
Mount Harvard
Posted in backpacking, Colorado 14ers, hiking, tagged Horn Fork Basin, Mount Harvard, winter backpacking on January 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
New Year’s Eve was celebrated about two hours early by a group of mountaineers more concerned with early starts than ringing in 2010. Our host, Ken Nolan, departed for La Plata Peak about an hour before the rest of us woke and ventured out. Our destination was treeline in Horn Fork Basin, about 11,600 feet. [...]
