from Colorado MoJo
Mrs. Mesa will be melting away the pounds soon, but last weekend she was still fat and gorgeous. Western Slope climbers Jason Adams and Matt Cova put in an epic 14-mile, 13-hour effort on Saturday to reach this classic ice route atop Grand Mesa. The two climbers, along with Douglas Lossner, who did the first [...]
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from The Mountain World
Keywords:
road,
Hero Traverse,
Pikes Peak,
hour,
13,400 feet,
toll road,
Total Abandon,
tire,
ice,
day
After several false starts due to illness and road closures, Jack Roberts and I made it to Pikes Peak yesterday and climbed the classic ice route Total Abandon. This climb forms occasionally in the fall on the right side of a dramatic granite buttress on Pikes' north face, starting about 900 feet below the 14,115-foot summit. The approach is more akin to a Chamonix cable-car lift than the usual American wilderness slog: To get to the route, you drive up the Pikes Peak toll road ($10/person), park at 13,400
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