It was hotter than we’d have liked and the route was going to be in the sun. Both of us knew that, having been stuck in traffic coming back from the mountains just the day before and passing Lovers Leap right around 6pm. But the 0% chance of rain was an enticement to get out [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Lovers Leap
Posted in climbing, tagged Lovers Leap, rock climbing on July 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Belleview Mountain
Posted in hiking, tagged Belleview Mountain, West Maroon Pass on July 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
After climbing the Guides Ridge on Saturday, Pete and I took another look at the weather forecast and decided to bail out of heading to Telluride and attempting Dallas Peak. We looked about the options and after telling of a “fun class 3 scramble” he read about in a trip report on Belleview Mountain we [...]
Guides Ridge
Posted in climbing, tagged Crested Butte, Guide's Ridge, Mount Crested Butte, rock climbing on July 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Recently the Crested Butte Mountain Guides had posted some photos showing a lot of details of the “Guides Route” that they take clients up frequently. I’d also run into one of their guides on top of Crestone Peak and asked a few questions about the difficultly, approach and gear required. Pete was enthused about the [...]
Humboldt Peak
Posted in backpacking, Colorado 14ers, hiking, tagged Humboldt Peak, South Colony Lakes on July 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Before falling asleep I’d been reading Steven Rinella’s American Buffalo so when a rumbling disturbed my sleep after 11pm I dreamed we were about to be crushed by stampeding bison. Waking up and remembering that bison don’t have headlamps I remembered the Custer Co Search and Rescue vehicles we’d seen drive up the road during [...]
Crestone Traverse
Posted in backpacking, climbing, Colorado 14ers, hiking, tagged Broken Hand Pass, Crestone Needle, Crestone Peak, Crestone Traverse, South Colony Lakes on July 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Three hours after leaving the Denver/Golden area, Helen and I meet Pete for pizza and beer in Westcliffe, on the east side of the Sangre de Cristo range. Somewhat randomly, our friend Kevin is in the same restaurant and joins our table along with Pete’s hiking partner for tomorrow, Brian. After the social dinner, our [...]
Wheeler Mountain
Posted in hiking, tagged Wheeler Lake, Wheeler Mountain on July 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday and Pete’s toe was feeling good enough to risk a hike. We head over Hoosier Pass and pass Montgomery Reservoir and make it only .3 miles from the winter gate before pulling over and admitting that the road is far to rough for Pete’s stock 4wd truck. We quickly pass some old mining building [...]
Boulder Canyon
Posted in climbing, tagged Boulder Canyon, Cob Rock, Empor, rock climbing, Tonnere Tower on July 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It had been about two weeks since I’d been rock climbing when plans for Saturday fell into place to head to Boulder Canyon. Piper (Heather) and I met early and were the first across the tyrolean to Cob Rock. I decided to start on one of the classics, North Face Center, and led the first [...]
Kenosha Peak
Posted in hiking, tagged 11271, Kenosha Peak, Lost Creek Wilderness, Lost Park, South Ben Tyler Trail on July 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
With another day off I decided to hike up two more peaks in the Lost Creek Wilderness. A two hour drive got me to the Lost Park trailhead where I started up the 2 mile hike on the Brookside-McCurdy trail to the Colorado Trail. It had rained overnight and the trail side grasses were holding [...]
Platte and Shawnee Peaks
Posted in hiking, tagged Ben Tyler Trail, Craig Park Trail, Lost Creek Wilderness, Platte Peak, Shawnee Peak on July 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
With Pete still out of commission, our planned San Juans trip was nixed. With a good chance of rain in the forecast, I decided to hit the Lost Creek Wilderness for a couple peaks that were just barely above treeline. Starting from the Ben Tyler trailhead, I followed the trail through forest and some open [...]
Ellingwood Ridge
Posted in Colorado 14ers, tagged Ellingwood Ridge, La Plata on July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A perfect weather forecast (0% chance of rain or storms) enticed me to try the Ellingwood Ridge on La Plata (a 14er I hadn’t yet climbed). Overnight it had rained and snowed at higher elevations, I anxiously noticed which peaks had a light dusting and was happy to see La Plata seemed to be spared. [...]
