Back 2 Colorado?

“I'm headed up to Colorado and hope someone will will join me.”

“we're going back in a year and spend the entire time in the sangres. you should go with us again”

“who's "we"?

I talked to jim.
He said he'd not know of any plans yet”

“I could get into some peak baggin!”

“so far, we is jim and i. did i not send a link to the trip page?”

“precision, i sent you an email but it bounced back”

“My Collegiates recommendation is either backpack up Pine Creek toward Missouri Basin or car camp near the ghost town of Winfield.

So you went to Lake City, p? I love that place. Climb any mountains?”

“thanks CB

The gmail accounts the one I'm using.

I've not had the time to get away from the Steambath State so far this year.... so it's Lake City FL.

Geeeze I hope one of ya's'll come along. It's just not so much fun as it once was when going alone.”

“I should be able to make at least part of the days, but likely only on the weeekends.”

“like the last time, right roam?

;-)”

“yeah yeah yeah, hopefully work won't explode on me this time adn I'll actually be able to ENJOY living in CO.

:)

one can dream, right?”

“Hear dat

I'm looking at the the 14ers book

any suggestions? want-to's?

CB: check your aohell. thnx
last edited: 7/11/09 4:25:54 AM”

“Hey precision! Like Roam, I may be able to join you on the weekend at some point. I'm dying to do some more 14ers!”

“precision, crash only told me about this trip in 2010 about a week ago.”

“That's fine. Thanks, J.

CB's gonna get the 411 for me.”

“precision, tried to send an email to the addy in your profile, got a 'delivery delayed' message.

you can email me at pharris937 at msn dot com”

“will do.... let me get back to my machine at home....”

“any ideas jim & roam?”

“several. We've been talking about a climbing trip (roped climbing) the weekend immediately following Labor Day - but those dates aren't set in stone. I've got reasonable flexibility at least with weekends and can get one or two days off in the week to get a nice long weekend.

You two should plan your trip and I'll work with your schedule.

I'd love to do Capitol and Snowmass, but I'd equally enjoy the Collegiates.”

“Capitol's big on my want-tos.

And it's so pretty 'epecially as you get to the pasture”

“i was planning on the labor day roped climbing trip. since i would be in the area and acclimated doing some stuff in the collegiates and/or capitol would be super cool. as usual, i am easy.”

“From roam's and your time slots the climbs are looking to be 'round labor day....”

“roam posted a backpacking trip on the other thread that sounded good.

You could make a really nice backpacking trip, with a little off trail bushwhack/exlporation/route finding :) and camp in the "Pierre Lakes Basin". I'm not sure exactly what the access to the standard routes on Capitol or Snowmass would be from there, but i'm sure it'd be 'doable somehow'. That's a trip I've had my eye on for a while - I've seen pics taken from in there and its rather spectacular - check it out on a map of the area. If I recall, the Pierre Lakes area is due east of Capitol and Snowmass.

obviously this could/would involve some climbing.”

“i think that route is in the roach book”

“sounds fine to me too

I'll check the roach book.... wonder about the "hike in"”

“i'll look into it as well.”

“hmm... I didn't see it in the book.

Just by looking at the thumbnails at 14ers.com and nothing else my shortlist for peak pics might be something like:

Elbert
Massive
Holy Cross
Maroon Peak
Snowmass
Conundrum Peak
Pyramid Peak
North Maroon Peak
Ellingwood Point
Mt Sneffels
Capitol Peak and Knife Ridge
Wetterhorn


Can we nail down the dates a little more in the next week to 10 days? I'm using air miles so I gotta get them set up with a flight plan.”

“i am good for pretty much anything but i really had my heart set on roped climbing with roam and company as my local guides this september.”

“definitely Yogi. It really depends on how long you can stay out here and how you want to allocate your time. I didn't mean to ever imply that i was trading peak bagging 14er's for roped climbs.

We've talked about your climbing trip for a while.”

“in addition to next years peak-bagging trip, theres this dunes and mountains trip

http://www.thebackpacker.com/trips/trip/1746.php”

“Yogi, what's you guys schedule like?

I'm loolking at the calendar and see that if I leave the week of or after you-and-roam's get-together that it might be a better schedule than my original dates. Maybe I could spend a few days on your tips too?”

“i am flying in on the 9th arriving in the early evening and flying out on the 14th late in the afternoon. i don't know what the plan is (it's roamaround's trip) but i do know the focus is roped climbing. i am totally stoked about the trip... climbing in places i have only seen in photos! i still have a bum finger, but i'll tape it up and climb on!”

“Rock climbing, Eldorado Canyon and Lumpy Ridge (RMNP) mainly. With perhaps a day spent on a technical climb of a 14er, or nearly 14er. We'll spend the first couple of days in Eldo and then move up to Lumpy Ridge to help with dealing with altitude. The alpine day is an option for the tail end pending how good we feel.”

“oh man, i am chuckling as i am reading this. that is all sounding way good to me!”

“so's it alright to join in with you two for some of it? Roped climbs sound fun to me too (roam)?

I'd get out there on the 7th or 8th and then meet up with yoos somewheres on the 9th.”

“Well, here's the thing, some of what I've been planning to do with yogi would be ok with a beginner climber, but a good bit of it wouldn't necessarily be great to do with a beginner, or with a 3 man team.

Our first day I'd sort of planned to be on milder stuff just to give us a chance to get comfortable working as a team and become accustomed to each other's belay and get our communication dialed in.

I think it'd be fine for you to hook up with us for that day - which would be thursday the 10th.

The rest of our days though, I've been planning on bigger multi-pitch routes (3 or 4 rope lengths) which, while doable with a three man team, are much simpler (and safer) with a two person team. Chances are I could round up a 4th person for Sat or Sun to join us though.

Also, on either Sat or Sun, I'd thought we might either do a route on a big mountain - which I would not want to do in a 3 man team, or - and this depends on how strong we feel - we would do a more laid back Clas 3 or 4 route on a big mountain - this would be fine to do in a 3 man team.

< disclaimer > Now - I am not a guide, nor do I play one on TV. Climbing is dangerous and you could die, or worse. If you decide to come do some of this, your responsible for your own safety and decision making. < /disclaimer >

But, i also have another buddy out here that would most likely be up for scrabling up a 14er, or a near 14er somewhere and he's a real good dude to hike and camp with. If you don't spend the whole time with us, i could hook you up with TMac (if he's available), I'd told him you were coming out and he was open to doing something.

-edit- oh yeah - gear - i do have an extra harness or two and a couple pairs of shoes - depends on what size shoe you wear. I think i have a pair of (mens) 9, 10 and 10.5 So long as they fit reasonably well, you could get by for a day or so in them.
last edited: 8/18/09 7:27:38 AM”

“You're not a guide. I'm responsible for my own safety. But as a fellow climber/hiker it'd svck if anything happened to any one of us. So I really get that you want to do things the right way.

So I'll keep the plans flexible--but plan to meet up with you and yogi on the 9th or 10th. Where can I meet up with one or both of you on one of your arrival days?”

“Yes - any sort of accident with injury or worse would really just ruin the whole trip for all involved.

Well, I live here. :) yogi is arriving the evening of the 9th, around 7:00 pm. You could plan to meet us that night - I live in Longmont - or probably better, we could meet up the morning of the 10th before we head into Eldo.

Eldorado Canyon State Park http://www.mountainproject.com/v/colorado/boulder/eldorado_canyon_sp/105744246

Located just southwest of Boulder, off Hwy 93. Email me at pharris937 at msn dot com and I can give you some better details.
last edited: 8/18/09 11:34:54 AM”

“I finally got around to changing the trips page

10.5's likely be what I'll need--shoe wise--and bring the extra harness too, if you will please

I'll check with you in a few days 'bout the eldo”

“Wonderland Trail 2010.. you game?

Where the hell have you been?

'32oz”

“sorry i missed a few posts here precision. roam knows the story. i am basically riding shotgun on this one. crash's trip is next year.”

“Hey Precision, to get a sense of some of the routes we could do that first day, take a look at this page - http://www.mountainproject.com/v/colorado/boulder/eldorado_canyon_sp/105744711 any of the routes there graded 5.6 or lower would be the sort of thing i'd put you on for your first time out.

I've got a spare pair of 10.5 shoes as well.

I must have lost your email address - send me a message and I'll send you some guide book pages in pdf as well. pharris937 at msn dot com.”

“RoamAround, you got mail”

“packed and totally stoked! baking prosecutor bars this evening... a week worth of lunches in bar form. yum! i have way too much junk. adding a trip up longs peak + the possibility of an overnight added up in terms of gear. well, better to have it and not use it than the other way around.

flight leaves ORD at 5pm. very excited!”

“At DIA waiting for my flight home. I want to thank RoamAround for putting together such a great trip and especially his hospitality during my stay. He and his girlfriend (no trail name yet so I won't post her real name) made me feel totally at home. Roam set up 5 days of tough climbing that really pushed me to my limits both physically and as climber. A lot of doors opened for me this week and it was a huge boost to my confidince. I am whipped and it will take me a week to physically recover... but I will never recover from the views I saw from my free-hanging rappel in Eldorado Canyon or my struggle with "Knee Catcher" clmbing on lead WAY above me highest lead yet. What a week!”

“you bet!!! had a blast, and feeling it today - being sore is a good thing.

Hope Precision had fun with his day of getting way above level ground too.”

“Sure did... After I left Boulder I went to Evans. I got most of the way up put was pelted with serious hail, which was ok, until the lightening started cracking rocks around me... you know you're too close when you hear "szzzit" and the flashes are yellow rather than white-ish.

Thanks again for the great climb... I think I'll do fine with more sustained climbs with a tad more experience... looking to the past weekend I guess I was pretty strong at the easier trads... I was pretty much humbled and surprised yet confident at the same time... it felt good-- the work to get up there...

PS I didn't think to mention it at lunch but...
On my way back down from Capitol I met a climber going up. I after I talked with him for a while and we parted, it occurred to me that the hiker/climber I had been talking to was the well-known Alan Arnette ( http://www.alanarnette.com/ ). He's posted with pretty pictures about his climb on 14ers.com... Had I realized it was Alan soloing up the Cap while I was speaking with him at the road-part of the trail I think I'd-a turned around and gone back up if it was ok with him. What a geat opportunity to learn that was missed.... goes to show me you never know who you'll meet out on the Colorado trail. Anyways, he was really friendly. And it was a treat to talk with him, if only ever-so briefly.

Also thanks to Jesse for the picture http://www.14ers.com/images/trips/capi/29_2009091118140329_l.jpg”

“Looking forward to more stories & pictures. Glad you got out of Florida again, p.

I also had my first hair-raising lightning experience on Mt. Whitney last week. Freaky.”

“sadly, i won't have any photos. since i "lost" my camera on capitol peak last year i have not replaced it. i sort of don't miss it that much anyway. i might start using those little disposable cameras. no batteries and a lot lighter. a lot less to lose if you drop the darn think too... :)”

“I took a few, I'll get around to posting them in a day or so.”