May 16th 200914er & Climbing & Snow
Princeton is a strange mountain. On paper, it is a very easy easy (relatively speaking) hike up a pile of rocks in the Sawatch range, however I’ve heard stories from other people of it never turning out so easy, me included. Something always happens, my first attempt was foiled by bad route finding, this one [...]
My first attempt on Longs was flawed from the beginning. I got food poisoning on Tuesday and have no been able to eat a single meal until Friday; we were supposed to leave on Saturday. On Friday morning, still feeling terrible, I sent an email to everyone I was supposed to go with that I [...]
We arrived at the Shavano trailhead around 6pm and found a few more of our party already set up camp and were hanging out and drinking beer. The beauty of car camping is that you can take everything and the kitchen sink with you, which is what we did, we had 4 people in the [...]