A rare forecast for light winds around Longs Peak just happened to coincide with a trip to the Cables Route that John and Ed were planning. I begged my way into the group and 4am found us leaving the trailhead. John had measured 8 inches of new snow in Rollinsville so we were surprised how [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Cables Route
Posted in climbing, Colorado 14ers, tagged Cables Route, Longs Peak, North Face, Rocky Mountain National Park on February 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Sheep Nose
Posted in climbing, hiking, tagged Sheep Nose on February 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of us should have said something. 3 inches of new snow here in Golden and I was going to meet Pete for a couple 8-9,000 foot peaks in Douglas county. We knew there would be scrambling involved so we anticipated some increased difficulties. We should have slept in and visited Clear Creek Canyon for [...]
Clear Creek Ice
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Clear Creek Canyon, Coors Ultra Light, ice climbing on February 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Given the ton of snow falling in the high country I decided to stay closer to town on Saturday. Darin and I meet up at 6:30am for the short ride 4 miles up Clear Creek Canyon to hit the ice flows. We started on Mickey’s Big Mouth, with Darin taking the first pitch, then lowering [...]
Valentine’s Day Ice
Posted in climbing, tagged ice climbing, Lincoln Falls on February 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Sunday morning I carefully motored up I-70 through fresh snow and met John in Idaho Springs. Since he had 4wd, he agreed to drive and we were soon at the Montgomery Reservoir and gearing up for a morning at Lincoln Falls. The gated road in was icier than I’d ever seen it before, but we [...]
Waterton Canyon
Posted in hiking, tagged Bennett Mountain, Waterton Canyon on February 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
After a week of being sick I was feeling just well enough to try and hike up a couple easy peaks, even while less than 100% I couldn’t let a decent weather day pass. Given a need to stay low, I decided to fill in a couple slots on a silly list I’ve been keeping: [...]
Eagle Rock
Posted in hiking, tagged Eagle Rock, Tarryall Road on February 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Pete was recovering from 2 weeks in Dallas, so we made arrangements to climb a couple lower peaks in the morning. First up was 9,111 near the Spruce Grove Trailhead on Tarryall Road in Park county. We brought a small rope and rack but the only really steep faces were on the cold north side [...]
Clear Creek Canyon Ice
Posted in climbing, tagged Clear Creek Canyon, Coors Lite, ice climbing, Mickey's Big Mouth on February 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
After following up on a post on Mountain Project looking for partners for an after-work ice climbing session I met Chris and Darin at the mouth of Clear Creek Canyon and we carpooled a couple miles up to the ice flows. Our first objective was the series of falls known as “Mickey’s Big Mouth”, with [...]
Ouray Ice
Posted in climbing, tagged Bear Creek Falls, Horsetail Falls, ice climbing, New Funtier, Ouray, Ouray Ice Park, Pick o' the Vic, Shithouse Wall, South Park on February 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It had been far too long since I’d visited Ouray in the winter. Jeremy, Rudy and I loaded up my SUV to the gills and headed out via a slightly less than optimal route taking us through Breckenridge (to pick up some skis) and then on to Gunnison (for dinner and to drop off said [...]
