from Climber's Blog
(Back to: North America, Contiguous USA, Colorado) Longs Peak, Hearts and Arrows. By Chris Weidner, AAC Bruce Miller and I spent nine days on Longs Peak between July 27 and August 26 establishing Hearts and Arrows, a free route up the center of the Diamond. We climbed the first four pitches of the Enos Mills [...]
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from Climbing Narcissist
DPM reports on Nick Duttle doing the 4th ascent of Tommy Caldwells Sarchasm (5.14) located high in RMNP, CO on the Ships Prow near Longs Peak: After breaking a few holds during his efforts at what he calls, “the first fat guy ascent,” Nick felt the line warranted the 5.14b grade. He also noted that it [...] Nick Duttle Repeats Alpine 5.14 from Climbing Narcissist Become a fan of ClimbingNarc.com on Facebook Related posts: DPM Interviews Nick Duttle Nick Duttle Getting It Done Out East Nick Duttle
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from The Alpinist - newswire
Last weekend was an active one for Colorado's Longs Peak. On Friday Alpinist Contributor and Mountain Standards Reviewer Blake Herrington completed the "Quadruple Lindy." The next day Josh Wharton made the first free ascent of the Diamond's Dunn-Westbay formerly graded at 5.10, A3, 1000 feet. Conceived by Bill Wright and Kelly Cordes in 2003, the "Triple Lindy" climbs the three biggest rock faces in RMNP, the Diamond (Longs Peak East Face), Chief's Head North West Face, Mount Alice East Face in a day ...
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from The Alpinist - newswire
Bruce Miller and I spent nine days on Longs Peak between July 27 and August 26 establishing a new free route (not yet named) up the center of the Diamond. We climbed the first four pitches of the Enos Mills Wall (V 5.11 A3), already freed at 5.10, with a short new leftward traverse to a stance. We then added a new 45-foot face traverse pitch that climbs leftward into a prominent right-facing corner on Jack of Diamonds (V 5.10c A4). We added two bolts and one pin on this 5.11+ traverse. The route overhangs
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from High Places
dear steph, i am a 62 year old man that tried hiking up longs peak at 20 on the 100th anniversary of first recorded climb.left too late, was too cold and couldnt find the cables. to my dismay, several years later went back to try again and learned cables were removed. tried to go keyhole [...]
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from Outdoor Habit
Looking up at Longs Peak (center) from the Jim's Grove/Battle Mountain junction. Mt Meeker (left) and Mt Lady Washington (right) are also pictured. I've been planning on doing a fast ascent of Longs for quite a while and it finally came together last weekend. I ended up staying in Estes Park on Saturday night before getting up at 5am and heading to the trailhead with Dave. We hit the trail right at 6 and made fast progress up through the trees, quickly hitting the Jim's Grove/Battle Mountain junction. We
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from Outdoor Habit
Yesterday I went up to Chaos Canyon with a few people to do some bouldering. I had never been up there before and it turned out to be a pretty good day. It's definitely an awesome setting for a day outside, but unless you climb harder than I do, it's probably not an area you'd want to visit a lot. Great views of Glacier Gorge and Longs Peak on the hike in. Lake Haiyaha and Upper Chaos, taken from atop the Gobot Boulder The strong people were out in force yesterday as well. We saw Chuck Fryberger, Brion ...
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from Outdoor Habit
The Diamond, Longs Peak (photo from August '08) Yesterday was a beautiful day out, the finish to a week of awesome weather on the Front Range. After spending the morning doing some work inside I decided it was too nice outside to miss out on. I quickly stuffed some extra clothes in my pack, grabbed some water and drove up to the Longs Peak trail head in RMNP. The goal for the day was to get well above treeline and spend several hours at altitude in one of the most beautiful places on earth. I didn't bring
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from Outdoor Habit
The weather in Boulder has definitely been warming up as we've had several days of near 90 degree temps over the past couple weeks. As the temps go up, my motivation for climbing typically goes down. On the other hand, I'm pretty psyched on hiking and trail running right now. My route (traced in black) So far this year I've only been out hiking a few times, but I got out for a nice long hike/run last Sunday. Parked at NCAR and headed up the trail at 12:03 with the intention of hitting Bear Peak and South
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from Outdoor Habit
I decided it would be cool to post a bunch of my favorite pictures I've taken over the past ~6 years. Nothing too spectacular, and all taken with my Canon Digital ELPH, but I'm definitely proud of some of them and they're all good shots. FYI, clicking on the images will bring up a larger image (necessary for the panoramas). The first image is from Rib Mountain State Park in Wisconsin. I spent a Fall day in 2003 bouldering there (before bouldering was banned , effective this year due to State Natural Area
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