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The most recent site wide upload was August 27, 2010.
2010 Additions:
August 22, 2010 > I've added a page for Bridge Day 1985 . . . a day of rappels and single rope ascents on West Virginia's New River Gorge Bridge. Not exactly a mountain climb but an interesting read about an out of the ordinary activity.
August 16-20, 2010 > A week in Chicago Basin yielded rain, hail, sun, Jupiter Peak and North Eolus, completing soft 14'ers and adding a Centennial to the tally.
July 25, 2010 > A second, and this time successful, run at Grizzly Peak, however via the East Ridge and McNasser Gulch trailhead in lieu of the now melted out Grizzly Couloir.
July 18, 2010 > A weekend of sightseeing in southern Colorado includes the summit of Huerfano Peak along the way.
July 11, 2010 > Added some photos to the pages for my climbs of Redcloud/Sunshine and Handies Peaks back in 2000. Photos are from 2010 trip to the same area but illustrative of the climbs and peaks.
July 10, 2010 > Two peaks for the price of 1.5 was the moral of the story for a long day climb of Point 13,832 and its not so close neighbor, Point 13,811.
July 9, 2010 > The first day of a two day trip to the San Juans to climb Centennials yielded Half Peak, a bit of an unusual summit at the end of a 6 mile hike to and beyond Cataract Lake
June 26-27, 2010 > An overnight to Willow Lake, a climb of Kat Carson via the Outward Bound couloir and a cast of new characters make for a great weekend climbing trip.
June 6, 2010 > A mile of rotten snow made for a climb of Grizzly Peak that was not to be but the attempt was by no means uninteresting given the other traffic on the trail and opportunity to see part of the Sawatch I had never visited before.
June 5, 2010 > A "not in the guidebook" route up a snow filled couloir on the eastern face of French Mountain. We were able to climb snow without the hassle of a snowy approach, but the crossing of halfmoon Creek made the start and finish of this climb one to remember.
May 22, 2010 > A short day day out was the name of the game and Lackawanna Peak's south slope route promised exactly that . . . 3400 feet of vertical over a short 3.4 mile course in 4.5 hours with just enough wind thrown in up high to make for chilly fingers and firm snow.
May 1, 2010 > The name of the game was taking each false summit as an individual victor in our climb of California Peak in the still snow bound Sangre de Christo Range
April 11, 2010 > Close but no summit on Mount Adams in the Sangre de Christo Range. A short but daunting avi primed snowfield stood between us the the summit of Mount Adams on one of the nicest bluebird days that I've ever experienced.
April 3, 2010 > A very snowy attempt of Mts. Arkansas and Tweto. Warm temps and snow below but some serious wind and bad visibility higher up made for a 5 mile physical conditioning exercise and no chance of a summit
March 21, 2010 > We missed a winter summit by a day or so when we climbed Mount Sherman on the 21st, barely 24 hours after the equinox. A long approach led to snow covered slopes shakingoff the cold of winter under a warm spring sun.
January 9 - 25, 2010 > Argentina 2010 - A two week expedition to Argentina's Valle de Colorado and the Ramada Range. Two weeks of travel, adventure, climbing topped off by a 21,000 foot summit without another climber in the whole valley. It is a long report of 25+ pages but if you have an interest in a non Aconcagua climb in the high Andes of Argentina, from start to finish, it might be worth a read.
January 2, 2010 > A tale of two mountains, a glimpse at a bluebird day on Mt. Bierstadt and the harsh reality of a winter storm blowing in on the same mountain . . . we got our money's worth on this favorite 14'er.
2009 Additions:
December 19, 2009 > A long day out, mostly above 13k on North Star Mountain. Blue skies brought on bitter cold and harsh winds to make this the longest ridge we've done is a very long time.
December 13, 2009 > One very cold attempt of Mt. Bierstadt on a dead of winter day. We found lots of snow, miles, cold, wind and acclimatization in preparation for our upcoming Andean adventure.
November 22, 2009 > Cercle de Silverheels - enter the wind stage west . . . A chilly morning depart from Hoosier Pass becomes a long walk to the summit and an even longer walk back as the winds of winter remind us of the season.
October 24, 2009 > Winter is here, at least it was when we climbed Casco Peak from the Halfmoon trail head. We found plenty of snow and wind but we scored the summit of this high 13'er, regardless of the weather.
October 17, 2009 > After a month out of the mountains, we make a climb of Mount Buckskin for a bluebird day tour of the peak's summit ridge and neighboring Loveland Mountain as well.
September 20, 2009 > Following our climb of the Bell, we moved over toward Castle Creek and summitted Cathedral Peak. We climbed the "mud" couloir in spitting snow, summitted in the clouds and barely beat the serious rain to the car. But, the colors were dead on and we just about had the place to ourselves.
September 19, 2009 > Ed needed to ring the bell, the South Maroon Bell, that is. It was time for our annual fall color climb and we took on the South Bell's South Ridge route. The colors were perfect and we managed to get the climb in between bursts of snow.
August 30, 2009 > An unusual event, an August climb on a Colorado 14'er . . . but I'd been out of town and itching to get out. G and Bob were of similar itch so off we went to Longs Peak to score a new route . . . The class 4 Northwest Couloir that cuts from the midpoint of the "Ledges" portion of the Keyhole Route to the sloping northerly ridge leading to the summit plateau.
July 19, 2009 > The G man returns to climbing with a mellow debut on Mount Oklahoma. An old school camping trip and a non guidebook ascent made for the eprfect day out in the mountains.
July 12, 2009 > Someone left the Refrigerator door open so Bob and I climbed the steep snow Refrigerator Couloir on Ice Mountain. We descended Ice's class 3/4 Northeast Ridge and then picked up the North Apostle via its Class 2 Southwest Ridge before calling it a day.
July 4, 2009 > I took the "*ABC" ("All But Culebra") notation off my 14'er climbing experience by climbing Culebra Peak and neighboring Red Mountain, a Centennial 13'er on a bluebird Saturday.
June 2009 > Added a few photos to the Mount Antero page.
June 14, 2009 > Almost 26 years after my walk up the Baldwin Creek road, I repeated the trip, this time by 4WD to summit North Carbonate Peak, a.k.a. Cronin Peak on a blue sky morning.
June 13, 2009 > A trip through the fields and high meadows of post hole hell delivered me to the summit of Crystal Peak from the Mayflower Gulch trail head.
June 7, 2009 > Steep was the guidebook description of the climb and the book was right on. A good trail leading to a short summit snow climb made Mount Hope a delight.
June 6, 2009 > An incredibly windy June climb of Horseshoe Mountain with 60 mph gusts making what should have been a tourist climb into a test of endurance.
May 16, 2009 > A climb of the couloir leading up the southwest face of Traver Peak from the Climax Mine/Fremont pass hairpin parking. Once atop the summit, Bob and I hiked the connecting ridge to McNamee Peak and then continued on to Clinton Peak, a ranked Centennial
May 9-10, 2009 > Two days of snow in Colorado's San Juan mountains. Ed and I spike camped the Matterhorn Basin to score snow climbs to the summits of both the Wetterhorn and Uncompahgre Peak.
May 1, 2009 > After a lapse of about 9 weeks, I made a solo climb of Quandary Peak's Christo Couloir, a 2500 foot conditioning climb more than anything else.
April 26, 2009 > The weather did not cooperate, hence a brief blurb as to an attempted climb of the Dragontail Couloir on RMNP's Flattop Mountain.
April 5, 2009 > G and I took a siesta from work to study Spanish in Antigua, Guatemala and during the stay, we did a group climb of Pacaya volcano to see the lava flow. Not exactly our typical climb but how often do you get to toast marshmallows over molten rock?
March 2009 > While sorting slides on a cold cheyenne afternoon, I came across shots from climbs of Mt.Yale and Mts. Tabeguache and Shavano from 1988. I've added them to the pages for those Sawatch peaks.
March 2009 > I added Expedition pages for a trip to Mexico's Copper Canyon. We did Copper Canyon "back in the day" (1987) before there was eco tourism and somehow we found our way to the bottom of this spectacular canyon.
February 22/23, 2009 > An overnight camp planned for Kelso Ridge turns into a snowy fogbound climb to the summit of Grays Peak.
January 10, 2009 > A climb of Dyer Peak in Colorado's Mosquito Range. We did it Bolivian style and though the elevation may have been a little shy of 14k, I think Bob might have joined the Club on this climb.