Started a very frontcountry weekend in Breckenridge with a walk through the annual snow sculpture competition. The international field was spending their last night finalizing their art work for judging. I hadn’t ridden a chair lift all last winter, but that’s mostly what I spent Saturday doing. That, and enjoying spending some time in the [...]
Archive for January, 2011
Breckenridge
Posted in skiing, tagged Breckenridge, skiing, skinning, snow sculpture on January 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
More secret ice
Posted in climbing on January 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What can I say, it’s nice having your own (nearly) private ice flow. This time John and I came out to the secret ice with nearly the same agenda as yesterday. Feeling better with every outing, like I’m about back where to where I was at the end of last season.
Return to Secret Ice
Posted in Uncategorized on January 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Had the weather forecast not deteriorated on us, this might have been titled “Return to Garden of the Gods”. However the winds and increased chance of rain or snow had us convinced the reasonable option was ice climbing. (Hint: If ice climbing ever seems reasonable – you’re beyond help.) Having been given the keys to [...]
Moffatt Tunnel
Posted in climbing, skiing, tagged ice climbing, Moffatt Tunnel, ski touring, winter on January 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »
It’d been over two years since I’d been ski touring in the Moffatt Tunnel’s East Portal, and when Jenn suggested a Boulder Multisport day of ice climbing and ski touring, I was excited. New skis that were begging to get out and be put to use were certainly part of the reason. During the snowy [...]
Morrison Bouldering
Posted in climbing, tagged Bouldering, Helicopter, Morrison, Tendonitis Traverse on January 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I’d never been bouldering before. I knew I would try it eventually, but maybe like joining Facebook, it’s just something I’ve been delaying as long as possible. No alpine starts today, I could sleep in, make a large breakfast, clean and do some shopping before carpooling down with Jenn and Josh to nearby Morrison and [...]
Castlewood Canyon
Posted in climbing, tagged Bat Wing, Castlewood Canyon, Crack Up, Darys' Crack, rock climbing on January 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I hadn’t seen Ryan since we met on the Crestone Traverse, but he decided to take a break from the high peaks and join me for some low-land rock climbing. With the wind forecast the most reasonable place seemed to be Castlewood Canyon so we parked at a less-than-ideal spot and found ourselves walking a [...]
Secret Ice
Posted in climbing, tagged ice climbing on January 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Derek said he’d take me to a secret ice climbing spot so details in this post will be rather vague. After meeting somewhere and carpooling somewhere else we maybe hiked for a ways, possibly involving a bushwhack, but maybe not. There was ice and no one else was there. After rappelling down the climb we [...]
Garden of the Gods
Posted in climbing, tagged Garden of the Gods, Grey Rock, rock climbing, South Gateway Rock, Three Graces, White Twin Spire on January 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »
45 degrees? Sunny? No wind? If this is January I’ll take it. Taking advantage of a few extra degrees of warmth further south, Pete and I drive down to the Garden of the Gods. 2011 climbing permits acquired we start out with a warm-up on South Gateway Rock. And it does indeed warm us up [...]
Windy Peak
Posted in hiking, tagged Lost Creek Wilderness, Windy Peak on January 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
After a few days of sloth encouraged by the cold and windy weather I joined a small group for a hike/snowshoe up Windy Peak (11,970 feet) in the Lost Creek Wilderness. Starting at the Rolling Creek Trailhead the four of us hiked along the Colorado Trail for nearly 3 miles to a signed junction. The [...]
