Mounts Lincoln, Cameron, & Bross
September, 1984 - Quartzville Creek Road
Mount Lincoln was my first 14’er and I was not out to climb all of them at that point, in fact, I was just a tag along on someone else’s school field trip. Roger, Dan and I took off early from the School of Mines in Golden to check out Mount Lincoln in connection with a hypothetical mine design project Roger had selected as a senior project. Lincoln was seriously mined in the past century and we were headed there to scope out the remains of an aerial tramway that Roger was incorporating in his mine plan.
We found the Quartzville Creek Road and headed up for the top. We were well prepared, in fact, we were Cottoneers. We got a nice late start, we were dressed in jeans and tennis shoes, we had a few sandwiches in a sack, and we were off for the summit. We walked, and walked, and walked and were even passed by a mine haul truck that was involved in some mineral venture near the top of the peak. We scoped out the mine ruins and made it to the top and it was neat. We then wandered over to Cameron and then around the bowl to the wide flat summit of Bross, before heading down the flank of Bross to the Volkswagen “Thing” that I called transportation during my college years.
We had two, maybe three, 14’ers under our belts and we did not even know that nearby Democrat was one too. Yes, that was the cherry climb in which I began as an earnest and unknowing Cottoneer!