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Today, pictures from valued commenter Wag.
My wife, Beth, and I have made it a tradition to celebrate our anniversary in August by climbing 14,000 ft tall peaks in our home state of Colorado. This year we ventured to the Sangre de Cristo range to climb in an area called the Crestones. Crestone Peak and Crestone Needle are two of the more rugged peaks in Colorado, and were the last two 14er’s to be climbed, with respective first ascents on July 23 and 24, 1916. The team that climbed them, Eleanor Davis and Albert Ellingwood, were an amazing pair of mountaineers.
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A view of the west side of the Peak and Needle. We climbed the trough
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Approaching the Peak
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Crestone Needle and Peak As seen from nearby 14er, Mt Humbolt
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We woke at 4:30 on the day of our climb and climbed our first objective, Broken Hand Pass, in the dark. We then descended the west side of the Pass to Cottonwood Lakes.
Taken on 2018-08-31 00:00:00
We had hoped to climb the Needle after the Peak, but it began to hail as we re-ascended Broken Hand Pass, forcing us to give up that plan. We will return next season to climb the Needle.
The next morning, we climbed Mt Humbolt, another 14er across the valley from the Crestones, giving me a chance to take the photo that opened this series.
Thank you so much Wag, do send us more when you can.
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David Evans
Wow. Just..wow. The panorama is stunning.
raven
Sweet.
Amir Khalid
There is a big rectangular block obscuring picture No. 4. The mountains in the other pictures are awesome.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: It’s snow, Amir.
HinTN
Alain @ top
That’s because I used the widget to ask if you still had the pix we worked so hard to be sure you had just before OTRIYB went on hiatus.
Mary G
Love the orange and yellow lichen on the rocks and the view of the valley.
gbbalto
@Amir Khalid: In Firefox, I right-clicked on the visible edge of the photo, and got “View Image”. Clicking that got me the whole thing.
Amir Khalid
@gbbalto:
And it too is an awesome mountain, but this is the first slip-up of its sort tht we’ve had here.
JPL
What a wonderful tradition, and wonderful pictures.
debbie
@gbbalto:
That didn’t work for me on a MacBook Pro. I think it’s a separate photo and it’s blocking the photo behind it.
Alain the site fixer
@HinTN: oh. I didn’t review the content, I’ll look this pm to see what I’ve got and email you. Sorry!
@Amir Khalid: I’ll go fix right now, it looked fine last night…sigh
arrieve
@debbie: I got it to open on my MacBook by control-clicking on the visible part of the picture and choosing open image in new tab.
Argiope
@debbie: Hmmmm. Same browser? Worked for me on a MacBook Pro, but in firefox. Thanks for the tip, gbbalto–it’s a great photo. Wag, what a cool anniversary tradition. Probably a good reminder of all the teamwork in the past, and all that’s still to come.
Amir Khalid
@Alain the site fixer:
Sometimes these supposedly inanimate things just get in a mood to give you a hard time.
MomSense
Amazing.
Steve in the ATL
Great tradition and great pictures! I most of the pictures anyway. One is just edges with a big white box over it (iPhone X with iOS 12 and Brave browser, but seems to be an issue across all platforms).
Mart
Awesome tradition. My daughter has been completing similar 14K climbs this summer. One thing missing from her pictures is the helmet. I am going to get on her to wear one..
Wag
Thanks all for the nice comments. It was a great trip. This pasta Saturday we returned to the Crestones and climbed another pair of 14ers. I’ll submit photos soon.
@Mart:
For most 14ers a helmet isn’t needed, only the more technical ones with a risk of falls or rockfall.
Wag
Thanks for fixing picture four!
Amir Khalid
@Wag:
I take it a fourteener is a 14,000+ foot tall mountain?
raven
@Wag: Many years ago we were about 200 yards shy of the summit of Mt Quandry when a storm blew in and we di-di’d off the ridge.
Wag
@Amir Khalid: Yes. Colorado is home to 58 of them, the most in the country. I have now climbed 35 of them.
stinger
@Wag: So, you have to stay married another 23 years. Think you can do it?
;-)
sgrAstar
@Wag: beautiful shots! I’ve done the Crestone Peak to Crestone Needle traverse- your photos brought back some great memories. Berg heil.
Miss Bianca
My God, you were going to try the Needle? I can see it from my deck. Every year we hear about climbers getting stranded or killed attempting the Needle, so while you may feel disappointed, I find I am rather relieved to hear that you weren’t able to make it!
Great photos, btw!
J R in WV
When I was first in Colorado to rockhound, we climbed a 14er, but in a little 4×4 Ford Ranger truck – they built a road up Mt Antero because there was a molybdenum mine (The Climax Mine) on top of Mt White, next door. I still have a little smoky quartz from about 13000 feet. You get stupid for lack of oxygen up there, so be really careful. We only realized how stupid when we drove back down the mountain, much snow, icy cold water rushing, late June.
Wag
@sgrAstar:
That’s great. I wanted to do the traverse the day were climbed, but the 40 mph winds were too intense. We elected to try going from Broken Hand Pass, but the weather didn’t hold by the time we descended the Peak and climbed the Pass. I summited the Needle 30 years ago, and am anxious to get back…
@Miss Bianca:
… but no so anxious as to take unnecessary risks! Thanks for your concern. If you can see the Needle I presume you live in the Wet Valley? The area around Westcliffe is amazing You live in a beautiful part of the state.
Wag
@J R in WV: @J R in WV:
Did you find any aquamarines when you were on Antero?
Tenar Arha
@Wag: these are beautiful, thank you
debbie
Ah, I can see them all now. Amazing photos!
@Argiope:
Guess I forgot that important detail. I’m on Chrome, a version Google tells me is about to be updated. That might have been the issue.