Liba
Thank you for your kind words and voting on my trip report & pix,
much appreciated. Congrats to you as well, very impressive list of climbs and also nearly complete. I will vote on your items as well.
Your friend,
Myrone
Definitely relished that all day adventure in between the frequent stops in search of more oxygen and pain relief. That fellow who did the traverse caught up to me shortly after you and I parted. He said he had met up with the trio that we had climbed with and that they took a different route down that they had previously scoped out.
I didn't get back to the car until 5:45 pm. Thirteen hours on the go, half of it a slow go up and down that slope. Took two days off and then did Crestone Peak from S Colony Lakes and finished up with a hike to Kit Carson using a route similar to one you posted. While I was laboriously making my way from Kitty Kat to Kit, I observed a fellow by the name of Wesley run up the avenue to tag Challenger and seemingly moments later he was running down past me having just summitted Kit Carson. Very impressive.
And so is your trip report. I actually enjoyed reliving the pain.
Nice report; your times, and experience with this route, are very similar to mine last month. (We got a bluebird day, too!) At 60, I feel right at home on peaks like this, and it sounds like you do to. BTW, that broken sign doesn't say "14,000." The top is missing, but it used to say "14,156," the topo map elevation of Maroon Pk. Climb on!
Please refrain from including me in your "Old Guys" group.....
The "plaque" was what we did........Climb, summit, descent.
14000-14156.......whatever, appreciate your details.
Su amigo,
Myrone
Liba Kopeckova - Sep 15, 2009 11:43 pm - Voted 10/10
congratsCongrats, great accomplishment and almost done with all 14ers.
myrone - Sep 16, 2009 9:47 pm - Hasn't voted
CongratsLiba
Thank you for your kind words and voting on my trip report & pix,
much appreciated. Congrats to you as well, very impressive list of climbs and also nearly complete. I will vote on your items as well.
Your friend,
Myrone
erial - Sep 18, 2009 8:13 am - Hasn't voted
took two days offDefinitely relished that all day adventure in between the frequent stops in search of more oxygen and pain relief. That fellow who did the traverse caught up to me shortly after you and I parted. He said he had met up with the trio that we had climbed with and that they took a different route down that they had previously scoped out.
I didn't get back to the car until 5:45 pm. Thirteen hours on the go, half of it a slow go up and down that slope. Took two days off and then did Crestone Peak from S Colony Lakes and finished up with a hike to Kit Carson using a route similar to one you posted. While I was laboriously making my way from Kitty Kat to Kit, I observed a fellow by the name of Wesley run up the avenue to tag Challenger and seemingly moments later he was running down past me having just summitted Kit Carson. Very impressive.
And so is your trip report. I actually enjoyed reliving the pain.
cftbq - Sep 20, 2009 11:49 pm - Hasn't voted
Old guys on mountainsNice report; your times, and experience with this route, are very similar to mine last month. (We got a bluebird day, too!) At 60, I feel right at home on peaks like this, and it sounds like you do to. BTW, that broken sign doesn't say "14,000." The top is missing, but it used to say "14,156," the topo map elevation of Maroon Pk. Climb on!
myrone - Sep 26, 2009 10:18 pm - Hasn't voted
I'm not old....are you?Please refrain from including me in your "Old Guys" group.....
The "plaque" was what we did........Climb, summit, descent.
14000-14156.......whatever, appreciate your details.
Su amigo,
Myrone