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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Crestone Needle and Peak visible behind Humboldt, the "larger" mountain left of center.
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Trippel40
Social climber
CO
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Nice thread! Im assuming some of you have climbed the Prow as well? I always thought it to be a much more *classic* climb both in quality and position not to mention the lack of people. Anyone else think so?
As for Ellingwood, the direct start sure adds some value. I seem to remember it being rated 5.4 and feeling a tad harder?
Tarbuster: Thanks for the info on the N Buttress direct finish! I hope it becomes useful to me some day soon!
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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Oh, snap! Now we gotta get Mike to make another flight? Damn the bad luck!
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the museum
Trad climber
Rapid City, SD
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So Tar in the pic I posted the Ellingwood Route is around the corner a bit farther? Sorry my bad.
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Nice shots Larry! (and everyone else)
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Tarbuster:
Chiloe said:
"Anyone recall the Karrimor Whillans rucksack?"
Buddy, I lust after that rucksack...You still got it?
Sadly, it went the way of well-used rucksacks many years ago. My pals and I all had them,
for a while.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Denver, Colorado
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Picture taken from the top of the Ellingwood Arete (climbing the Ellingwood Ledges) in winter, late 70's. Picture given to me by Bob Dickerson after doing the winter ascent with John Rosholt (The Gambler, great climber that is sadly missing). They had some great stories of using the old spit-on-the-wool-mitten and let it freeze to the rock handholds. Bob did the whole thing in fingerless wool gloves and got a little frostbite to remember the climb by.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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So good, so very good...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there all.. say... bump for great stuff!...
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Anyone got pics or stories from the Blanca group? I never got farther than Mt. Lindsey,
but the north side of Blanca/Little Bear looks cool.
Seen distantly here from the Crestones:
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nature
climber
Santa Fe, NM
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bump - great thread!
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Nov 15, 2008 - 08:47am PT
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Found a few more Crestone photos -- from a 1971 summer romp up the Ellingwood. Bob Wright climbing:
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Nov 16, 2008 - 02:16pm PT
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Feb 24, 2009 - 01:38pm PT
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SANGRE BUMP
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Feb 24, 2009 - 01:45pm PT
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I had a couple of those Karrimor sacs. . .
no suspension, but great sacs just the same. . .
Too many miles on them . . .
If I ever get the chance, I'll dig out some slides and
scan them . . .
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boognish
Trad climber
SF
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Feb 24, 2009 - 02:57pm PT
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If you include Ellingwood Peak in the Blanca group I can recommend the SW ridge. Fun 3rd class scramble that stays on the ridge proper for most of the way, and the rock was reasonably solid. Unfortunately the weather crapped out before I could get over to Blanca and Little Bear. That would be a great circumnavigation.
La Plata’s Ellingwood Ridge is fun for getting off the beaten path for a more popular 14er, but the climbing and rock are not all that classic. I remember is as a pretty loose route and spending more time following Mtn Goat trails close to the ridge than actually up on the ridge itself. The class 3 was traversing around gendarmes.
The pictures are all buried who knows where and I haven’t been to CO in 10 years, so take the memories with a grain of salt.
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SGropp
Mountain climber
Eastsound, Wa
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Feb 24, 2009 - 04:16pm PT
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I still have a dent in my skull from getting hit with a rock near the top of the Ellingwood Arete in 1973. I remember lots of blood.
About that time I realized my partner had some kind of lung condition and every breath he took at that altitude gurgled like he was drowning. We had to get down by going over the top. I remember we could see sand dunes in the sunset distance from the summit.
In our reduced condition and falling dark we almost glissaded down the wrong gully on the descent. By the time we got sorted out and back to camp it was pitch dark.
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Feb 25, 2009 - 02:25am PT
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bumpday begins
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