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 [...]
I did not take pictures on this trip, but there have been a few trip reports written:
Trip report #1
Trip report #2
This loops includes doing Democrat, Cameron, Lincoln and Bross from the Kite Lake trailhead. When the snow melts, you can drive right up to Kite late, however since the road was snowed in, we backpacked in the 2.5 miles and set up camp at Kite Lake. After a not so great night of sleep due [...]
I attempted Evans via Guaenalla pass on 3/9/09 with another 14ers.com member. After making good time up the road, we got to the willows and postholed in snowshoes most of the way to the gully. The gully did not look stable and we decided to go to the left. Making it up about half way [...]
The Princeton trip started off very well but myself and another person decided to deviate from the rest of the group and take the “easier” summer route instead of going up and over Tigger peak. Problems arose when we had to cross a number of avalanche-prone snow fields. We nervously crossed two of them and [...]
This was fairly straight forward. Took most of the summer route but decided to take a shortcut and go up a steep 30-40 degree snow and talus covered side of Sherman. We hit 30-40 mph winds on the ridge that were knocking us down from the left side of the ridge where the actual trail [...]
This was my first ever 14er since I moved to CO. I won’t bore anyone with the details because this is the most popular and one of the easiest 14ers. Just some pictures attached.
Climbed on 10/25/09