Peak(s):	Dallas Peak - 13,812 feet Teakettle Mountain - 13,815 feet Unnamed 13838 - 13,838 feet Unnamed 13820 - 13,820 feet
Date Posted:	09/04/2013
Modified:	09/09/2013
Date Climbed:	09/02/2013
Author:	SnowAlien
Additional Members:	mattpayne11, mtndude3737

Tea with Dallas and Fever Points
After injuring my right knee in mid-August at an obstacle course, I wasn't sure this trip was going to happen. First thought after tearing up my knee: Ski season! Second thought: Labor Day weekend plans! In the following couple of weeks, the knee - partially torn meniscus and some IT band damage - was healing slowly, and I wasn't able to do any training/conditioning hikes or to rock climb. Still, sensing a strong team, I was reluctant to pass up this opportunity. I reasoned that if I am considerably slowing down the group or in too much pain, I'd turn around. With that, I arrived at Mill Creek TH on Thursday night. The rest of the crew arrived 2-3 hours later and we briefly discussed the game plan for the next day. Despite 60% chance of rain in late afternoon, the start time was set at 5am - and I was liking the group already. Confidence! Day 1 - Dallas August 30, 2013 Distance: 11.5 miles (according to GPS) Elevation: ~5,700 ft (according to GPS) Time: 10.5 hrs (4.50 am to 3.20 pm) Team: Rick M, Ben, Matt Payne and Natalie (nkan02) A lot of ground is already covered in other TRs, so I am going to add a few words on route finding. The Roach guidebook correctly describes taking the left turn at 0.4 mile and 3 switchbacks leading to a meadow near 10k, but his map lacks this detail, so I am including a .gpx track which may be useful for groups trying to find the route in the dark. Turn left at the signed junction after about 0.4 miles from the TH. if you pass it and find yourself crossing the bridge, you've gone too far. We didn't take the Stan's shortcut either up or down. The turn off to Sneffels Highline Trail is easy to spot and the trail takes you to the bottom of the Dallas south face near 11'400 ft. Leave the trail and ascend the grassy slopes aiming for the center of the cliff bands. We used the grassy ramps to get higher on the south face Fairly soon we were able to locate a climbers trail which even was marked with cairns. The sky, which was very cloudy earlier in the morning, was starting to look better. Approaching the cliff bands The crew ascending the slopes We hit a short section of Class 3 territory, but even this cripple was able to navigate the terrain without too much trouble Eventually we found ourselves underneath an imposing cliff band near 13,000 ft. We turned right and followed the cairned trail leading to the ridge. Rick traverses under the cliffs and leads the way to the rib crossover. After crossing the rib we found ourselves on the East face. Most of the trail is Class 2+ with a short section of Class 4 Traversing the East face on climbers' trail Looking down at our route The summit pyramid comes into view for the first time Some "hoodoos" on the ridge - and Sneffels Matt is cruising through the Class 4 section There is webbing if needed Approaching the summit tower. This section was confusing. Ignore the "left" and "right" towers and concentrate on the "middle" tower. Its left side, marked with the "car sized chockstone" is the one you'll rapel to from the summit. Keep moving to the right and find the Class 4 chimney. Matt climbing up the chimney Webbing at the top of the chimney The crew studying the route and deciding on the next moves As stated in other TRs and contrary to what Roach says, it is not necessary to do an airy traverse on the ledges. Rick scouted the higher line and we were able to traverse the rib into the North face. The route description again gets confusing. The key words to look for are the downward "sloping ramp". Descend half-way down the ramp, then look to your left and up. You should be at the bottom of the summit pitch, with the pointy chockstone at the top. Summit chimney and crack system Rick did a beautiful job leading the pitch placing just one BD cam #0.75 in the first 15 feet. He declared the rest of the pitch to be Class 4. Maybe, but with daily rains in the San Juans and the pitch being on the North face, the rock wasn't completely dry. Add muddy wet boots and a bum knee which doesn't bend all the way and you can't trust the feet. Long story short, I was glad to have a rope on this one. Matt is getting ready to climb the summit pitch Rick is belaying from above while Matt is trying to find some firm ground on slippery slope (the crux) Close-up of the crux The summit view Ben climbing final steps to the summit as Rick looks on. In his San Juans intro, Roach writes about "diseased, knife-edge ridges with no logical means of support". Looking in the direction of "West Dallas" and "T 0" I saw some ridges that would fit that description. The crew on the summit. Photo credit: Matt's camera With time being around noon, the clouds started to move in. Rick is setting up the rappel under Ben's watchful eye Matt starting on the rappel All smiles at the end of rappel Descending from the "left" gully. "Car-sized" chockstone is seen in the background. Another look at the summit tower. Right gully - route up; left gully - route (rappel) down. Ben descending the East face The descent was fairly uneventful, except for Matt slipping and sliding on one of the ledges and getting a few cuts and bruises. Nothing like a memento from the San Juans! By the time we got down to the treeline, it started raining. We decided not to look for the Stan's shortcut, but to cruise down a familiar trail. And so we did, arriving back at the cars shortly after 3pm. Day 2 - Teakettle August 31, 2013 Distance: 3.6 miles (according to GPS) Elevation: ~2,900 ft (according to GPS) Time: just over 6 hours (6.00 am to 12.00 pm) Team: Rick M, Brad, Matt Payne and Natalie (nkan02) The knee was still holding up, so I was in for the second day of climbing. We car camped at the campground low on Yankee Boy basin road and piled up in Rick's truck around 5.30am. The road got pretty bad after the Camp Bird mine, so we glad we had a 4WD. According to Rick, the road got significantly worse even compared to a month ago. Subarus could probably make it within a mile or two from the 4WD TH. We set off from the truck shortly after 6am and hiked up the road for about 0.3 miles. We then started the direct ascent up the grassy slopes. We reached the upper basin near 12,000ft and surveyed the route ahead Brad, Rick Matt I have a nagging feeling that we didn't ascend the route Roach describes. Instead, we climbed the hellish scree aiming for the saddle between Teakettle and "Coffeepot". About 1,000 ft of pure San Juans scree As we were ascending, I kept thinking that it was a melted out snow slope, if I ever saw one. I recalled CarpeDM (Dave M) telling me something about this nasty scree - I should listen more to you, Dave, you seem to be spot-on on many things. I was also marveling that my knee was holding up so far on this unpleasant slope. Of course, I jinxed it. Suddenly I heard "rock", looked up and saw a boulder rolling towards me at a good speed. I knew I had to jump out of the way, but my knee just froze. Eventually, I yanked it out of the scree and moved right. Ouch. The boulder narrowly missed me, but it took a heavy doze of ibuprofens and about 2 minutes of rest before I could start moving again. Nothing like a reminder that you are a gimp on a steep loose slope. Eventually, the guys in front found the entry to the Black gully - we never had to downclimb to it, our route was straight up. Rick and Brad at the entrance of the Black gully. Coffepot is in the upper right corner. Black Gully looked like a river of mud... Wet loose dirt with loose rocks. I kept thinking it would be much better with snow. I couldn't be happier topping out on the ridge around 8.30am - about half an hour behind schedule, according to Rick, but the weather still looked spectacular. One of those rare blue bird San Juans mornings! After gaining the ridge, the route gets fairly straightforward - just follow the cairns While Matt, Brad and I played with the Teakettle handle posing for pictures, the ever-efficient Rick was already setting up the belay station. Photo by Matt Payne With Brad belaying him, Rick led the pitch and made it look easy. Three pieces of protection was used - a nut/stopper, a sling around a horn and a medium sized hex in the middle of the upper crack. We also used a 30m 8mm rope. Rick is putting a sling on a rock Rick on the upper section In no time, our fearless leader was on top. Next, it was my turn to follow. The rock looked dry and the boots were muddy, so I switched into my rock shoes. I was so glad I did! The pitch, albeit short, was a blast. Since I couldn't do high stepping, I had a lot of fun stemming. Rick said I had good footwork for a gimp. I do what I can. Photo credit: Rick Sneffels and Cirque mountain The Wilsons Dallas, climbed the day before We waited for Matt to climb up with Brad belaying him from the ground, and then I volunteered to switch places with Brad - it would be tough to fit all of us on the tiny summit. Brad climbing up - his 2nd or 3rd 13er. Photo by Rick By the time the last person rappelled down around 10am, the clouds were already building. I was really hoping for at least Coffeepot and maybe even Potosi, but already felt my energy level plummeting - the Teakettle scree definitely took its toll on me. Descending the Black gully For now, we decided to descend the Black gully and then re-evaluate. The ski technique was employed - descending one-by-one and then hiding in a "safe zone". Yep, this terrain would make much more sense with snow. I was driving Matt mad by uttering a word "ski" way too many times... Coffeepot - so close, yet so far away. Somewhere in the Black gully Brad announced that he was suffering from AMS. While we could have split the group with Brad descending with Matt, and me and Rick going for Coffeepot, I was struggling to find enough motivation to ascend (and then descend) additional 400 ft of hellish scree. Coffeepot and Potosi will have to wait for another time. Short Class 3/4 section in the Black gully Carefully picking your own line down the slope Scree surfing is about to commence Once Black gully ended and the slope widened, we were able to fan around the slope and pick our own line. After slipping and falling a few times on my butt, I made it down to the bottom mostly intact. Coming down By the time he got down to more agreeable terrain, Brad was really hurting and was losing remnants of his breakfast at an alarming rate. Again, I was glad we didn't split up, although we couldn't do much except offer the moral support and carry his pack and harness (Rick). Trying to get Brad down as quickly as possible, we took the beeline to the truck. Although there seemed to be a faint trail with sporadic cairns, I thought that our ascent route was more straightforward. We got to the truck soon after 12pm. Day 3 - Points 13,832 and 13,811 September 2, 2013 Distance: ~13 miles Elevation: ~5,600 ft (according to GPS) Time: 7.0 hrs with 30 min on the summit (6.30 am to 1.30 pm) Party: solo With the knee holding up so well for the first 2 days of hiking, I decided to give it a day of rest (which included Ouray Hot Springs) and hit a few more peaks before heading back to Denver. I arrived at the Grizzly Gulch TH, ate dinner and was chased into the car by rain around 7pm. Little did I know that the rain (with thunder and lightning) would continue through the night! When my alarm went off at 4am, it was still raining, so I went back to sleep. When I woke up next time a quarter to 6, it finally stopped raining but the cloud cover was still thick. I found motivation in seeing other people getting ready and heading up the trail for Redcloud and Sunshine. Well, I am here, so I may as well hike... Besides, I was putting some faith in weather forecasters - they said "rain after 2pm", so be it. I set out at 6.30am. Cruiser trail up the saddle with Redcloud Gloomy skies ahead From the ridge, I could see it was raining just to the east of me, but there was no lightning and the cloud wasn't big, so I kept moving. Summit of Pt 13,832 Reached the 1st summit around 9am and noticed that the weather is not deteriorating any further, but in fact is improving. Onward to Pt 13,811. Trail is easy Class 1 all the way, so no technical difficulties or partners to distract me from my thoughts. Maybe because of it I wanted the hike to be over soon. I got to Pt 13,811 just after 10am and took a half an hour break. Then the sun came out. Looking back at the ridge run from Pt 13,811 Uncompahgre and Wetterhorn steal the show Clouds Redcloud and Sunshine on the way back Uncompahgre Silver Creek basin Cliffy side of Redcloud Handies from Grizzly Gulch with obvious avalanche paths in the valley Fall is in the air Sometimes one just has to believe the forecasters. Back at the car at 1.30pm and it is not raining just yet! The knee wasn't happy in the last few miles and it would be swollen by the end of the day. Oh well, it will have a few more days to recover... My GPS Tracks on Google Maps (made from a .GPX file upload): Login required to view this map...

Tea with Dallas and Fever Points

After injuring my right knee in mid-August at an obstacle course, I wasn't sure this trip was going to happen. First thought after tearing up my knee: Ski season! Second thought: Labor Day weekend plans! In the following couple of weeks, the knee - partially torn meniscus and some IT band damage - was healing slowly, and I wasn't able to do any training/conditioning hikes or to rock climb. Still, sensing a strong team, I was reluctant to pass up this opportunity. I reasoned that if I am considerably slowing down the group or in too much pain, I'd turn around. With that, I arrived at Mill Creek TH on Thursday night. The rest of the crew arrived 2-3 hours later and we briefly discussed the game plan for the next day. Despite 60% chance of rain in late afternoon, the start time was set at 5am - and I was liking the group already. Confidence!

Day 1 - Dallas

August 30, 2013
Distance: 11.5 miles (according to GPS)
Elevation: ~5,700 ft (according to GPS)
Time: 10.5 hrs (4.50 am to 3.20 pm)
Team: Rick M, Ben, Matt Payne and Natalie (nkan02)

A lot of ground is already covered in other TRs, so I am going to add a few words on route finding. The Roach guidebook correctly describes taking the left turn at 0.4 mile and 3 switchbacks leading to a meadow near 10k, but his map lacks this detail, so I am including a .gpx track which may be useful for groups trying to find the route in the dark.

Turn left at the signed junction after about 0.4 miles from the TH. if you pass it and find yourself crossing the bridge, you've gone too far.

We didn't take the Stan's shortcut either up or down. The turn off to Sneffels Highline Trail is easy to spot and the trail takes you to the bottom of the Dallas south face near 11'400 ft. Leave the trail and ascend the grassy slopes aiming for the center of the cliff bands.

We used the grassy ramps to get higher on the south face

Fairly soon we were able to locate a climbers trail which even was marked with cairns. The sky, which was very cloudy earlier in the morning, was starting to look better.

Approaching the cliff bands

The crew ascending the slopes

We hit a short section of Class 3 territory, but even this cripple was able to navigate the terrain without too much trouble

Eventually we found ourselves underneath an imposing cliff band near 13,000 ft. We turned right and followed the cairned trail leading to the ridge.

Rick traverses under the cliffs and leads the way to the rib crossover.

After crossing the rib we found ourselves on the East face. Most of the trail is Class 2+ with a short section of Class 4

Traversing the East face on climbers' trail

Looking down at our route

The summit pyramid comes into view for the first time

Some "hoodoos" on the ridge - and Sneffels

Matt is cruising through the Class 4 section

There is webbing if needed

Approaching the summit tower.

This section was confusing. Ignore the "left" and "right" towers and concentrate on the "middle" tower. Its left side, marked with the "car sized chockstone" is the one you'll rapel to from the summit. Keep moving to the right and find the Class 4 chimney.

Matt climbing up the chimney

Webbing at the top of the chimney

The crew studying the route and deciding on the next moves

As stated in other TRs and contrary to what Roach says, it is not necessary to do an airy traverse on the ledges. Rick scouted the higher line and we were able to traverse the rib into the North face.

The route description again gets confusing. The key words to look for are the downward "sloping ramp". Descend half-way down the ramp, then look to your left and up. You should be at the bottom of the summit pitch, with the pointy chockstone at the top.

Summit chimney and crack system

Rick did a beautiful job leading the pitch placing just one BD cam #0.75 in the first 15 feet. He declared the rest of the pitch to be Class 4. Maybe, but with daily rains in the San Juans and the pitch being on the North face, the rock wasn't completely dry. Add muddy wet boots and a bum knee which doesn't bend all the way and you can't trust the feet. Long story short, I was glad to have a rope on this one.

Matt is getting ready to climb the summit pitch

Rick is belaying from above while Matt is trying to find some firm ground on slippery slope (the crux)

Close-up of the crux

The summit view

Ben climbing final steps to the summit as Rick looks on.

In his San Juans intro, Roach writes about "diseased, knife-edge ridges with no logical means of support". Looking in the direction of "West Dallas" and "T 0" I saw some ridges that would fit that description.

The crew on the summit. Photo credit: Matt's camera

With time being around noon, the clouds started to move in.

Rick is setting up the rappel under Ben's watchful eye

Matt starting on the rappel

All smiles at the end of rappel

Descending from the "left" gully. "Car-sized" chockstone is seen in the background.

Another look at the summit tower. Right gully - route up; left gully - route (rappel) down.

Ben descending the East face

The descent was fairly uneventful, except for Matt slipping and sliding on one of the ledges and getting a few cuts and bruises. Nothing like a memento from the San Juans!

By the time we got down to the treeline, it started raining. We decided not to look for the Stan's shortcut, but to cruise down a familiar trail. And so we did, arriving back at the cars shortly after 3pm.

Day 2 - Teakettle

August 31, 2013
Distance: 3.6 miles (according to GPS)
Elevation: ~2,900 ft (according to GPS)
Time: just over 6 hours (6.00 am to 12.00 pm)
Team: Rick M, Brad, Matt Payne and Natalie (nkan02)

The knee was still holding up, so I was in for the second day of climbing. We car camped at the campground low on Yankee Boy basin road and piled up in Rick's truck around 5.30am. The road got pretty bad after the Camp Bird mine, so we glad we had a 4WD. According to Rick, the road got significantly worse even compared to a month ago. Subarus could probably make it within a mile or two from the 4WD TH. We set off from the truck shortly after 6am and hiked up the road for about 0.3 miles. We then started the direct ascent up the grassy slopes.

We reached the upper basin near 12,000ft and surveyed the route ahead

Brad, Rick Matt

I have a nagging feeling that we didn't ascend the route Roach describes. Instead, we climbed the hellish scree aiming for the saddle between Teakettle and "Coffeepot".

About 1,000 ft of pure San Juans scree

As we were ascending, I kept thinking that it was a melted out snow slope, if I ever saw one. I recalled CarpeDM (Dave M) telling me something about this nasty scree - I should listen more to you, Dave, you seem to be spot-on on many things. I was also marveling that my knee was holding up so far on this unpleasant slope. Of course, I jinxed it. Suddenly I heard "rock", looked up and saw a boulder rolling towards me at a good speed. I knew I had to jump out of the way, but my knee just froze. Eventually, I yanked it out of the scree and moved right. Ouch. The boulder narrowly missed me, but it took a heavy doze of ibuprofens and about 2 minutes of rest before I could start moving again. Nothing like a reminder that you are a gimp on a steep loose slope. Eventually, the guys in front found the entry to the Black gully - we never had to downclimb to it, our route was straight up.

Rick and Brad at the entrance of the Black gully. Coffepot is in the upper right corner.

Black Gully looked like a river of mud... Wet loose dirt with loose rocks. I kept thinking it would be much better with snow.

I couldn't be happier topping out on the ridge around 8.30am - about half an hour behind schedule, according to Rick, but the weather still looked spectacular. One of those rare blue bird San Juans mornings! After gaining the ridge, the route gets fairly straightforward - just follow the cairns

While Matt, Brad and I played with the Teakettle handle posing for pictures, the ever-efficient Rick was already setting up the belay station.

Photo by Matt Payne

With Brad belaying him, Rick led the pitch and made it look easy.

Three pieces of protection was used - a nut/stopper, a sling around a horn and a medium sized hex in the middle of the upper crack. We also used a 30m 8mm rope.

Rick is putting a sling on a rock

Rick on the upper section

In no time, our fearless leader was on top. Next, it was my turn to follow. The rock looked dry and the boots were muddy, so I switched into my rock shoes. I was so glad I did! The pitch, albeit short, was a blast. Since I couldn't do high stepping, I had a lot of fun stemming. Rick said I had good footwork for a gimp. I do what I can.

Photo credit: Rick

Sneffels and Cirque mountain

The Wilsons

Dallas, climbed the day before

We waited for Matt to climb up with Brad belaying him from the ground, and then I volunteered to switch places with Brad - it would be tough to fit all of us on the tiny summit.

Brad climbing up - his 2nd or 3rd 13er. Photo by Rick

By the time the last person rappelled down around 10am, the clouds were already building. I was really hoping for at least Coffeepot and maybe even Potosi, but already felt my energy level plummeting - the Teakettle scree definitely took its toll on me.

Descending the Black gully

For now, we decided to descend the Black gully and then re-evaluate. The ski technique was employed - descending one-by-one and then hiding in a "safe zone". Yep, this terrain would make much more sense with snow. I was driving Matt mad by uttering a word "ski" way too many times...

Coffeepot - so close, yet so far away.

Somewhere in the Black gully Brad announced that he was suffering from AMS. While we could have split the group with Brad descending with Matt, and me and Rick going for Coffeepot, I was struggling to find enough motivation to ascend (and then descend) additional 400 ft of hellish scree. Coffeepot and Potosi will have to wait for another time.

Short Class 3/4 section in the Black gully

Carefully picking your own line down the slope

Scree surfing is about to commence

Once Black gully ended and the slope widened, we were able to fan around the slope and pick our own line. After slipping and falling a few times on my butt, I made it down to the bottom mostly intact.

Coming down

By the time he got down to more agreeable terrain, Brad was really hurting and was losing remnants of his breakfast at an alarming rate. Again, I was glad we didn't split up, although we couldn't do much except offer the moral support and carry his pack and harness (Rick). Trying to get Brad down as quickly as possible, we took the beeline to the truck. Although there seemed to be a faint trail with sporadic cairns, I thought that our ascent route was more straightforward. We got to the truck soon after 12pm.

Day 3 - Points 13,832 and 13,811

September 2, 2013
Distance: ~13 miles
Elevation: ~5,600 ft (according to GPS)
Time: 7.0 hrs with 30 min on the summit (6.30 am to 1.30 pm)
Party: solo

With the knee holding up so well for the first 2 days of hiking, I decided to give it a day of rest (which included Ouray Hot Springs) and hit a few more peaks before heading back to Denver. I arrived at the Grizzly Gulch TH, ate dinner and was chased into the car by rain around 7pm. Little did I know that the rain (with thunder and lightning) would continue through the night! When my alarm went off at 4am, it was still raining, so I went back to sleep. When I woke up next time a quarter to 6, it finally stopped raining but the cloud cover was still thick. I found motivation in seeing other people getting ready and heading up the trail for Redcloud and Sunshine. Well, I am here, so I may as well hike... Besides, I was putting some faith in weather forecasters - they said "rain after 2pm", so be it. I set out at 6.30am.

Cruiser trail up the saddle with Redcloud

Gloomy skies ahead

From the ridge, I could see it was raining just to the east of me, but there was no lightning and the cloud wasn't big, so I kept moving.

Summit of Pt 13,832

Reached the 1st summit around 9am and noticed that the weather is not deteriorating any further, but in fact is improving. Onward to Pt 13,811.

Trail is easy Class 1 all the way, so no technical difficulties or partners to distract me from my thoughts. Maybe because of it I wanted the hike to be over soon. I got to Pt 13,811 just after 10am and took a half an hour break. Then the sun came out.

Looking back at the ridge run from Pt 13,811

Uncompahgre and Wetterhorn steal the show

Clouds

Redcloud and Sunshine on the way back

Uncompahgre

Silver Creek basin

Cliffy side of Redcloud

Handies from Grizzly Gulch with obvious avalanche paths in the valley

Fall is in the air

Sometimes one just has to believe the forecasters. Back at the car at 1.30pm and it is not raining just yet! The knee wasn't happy in the last few miles and it would be swollen by the end of the day. Oh well, it will have a few more days to recover...

My GPS Tracks on Google Maps (made from a .GPX file upload):

Comments or Questions

Brian Thomas	78/100 and counting 9/4/2013 5:27pm Looks like somebody's got centennial fever!
mattpayne11	Awesome stuff 9/4/2013 7:00pm Thanks for the amazing memories Natalie! Great climbs! Grats on those other 2 centennials too. I guess I'll have to be the one to make a reference to Kilpacker in my trip report 8)
CarpeDM	Damn straight, Nat! 9/4/2013 7:38pm The world would be a better place if more people listened to me. Good job! Take care of that knee.
emohr	Wow 9/4/2013 8:22pm You guys are amazing. I will consider myself blessed if I ever get a chance to stand in the Teakettle Handle. Great work
MtnHub	Well played, people! 9/4/2013 9:00pm That's an amazing area with some stunning scenery! You got some fabulous shots of the route, Natalie! Hope your knee didn't suffer too much, but it sure looked like it was worth the abuse! Great job!
mtndude3737	Fakin?? 9/4/2013 11:46pm Natalie was an awesome climber. She MUST have been fakin that knee! I mean who climbs like that all banged up? Loved havin this team! Perfect climbing weekend!
mtndude3737	I just did the math... 9/5/2013 4:09am And Natalie racked up 28.1 miles and 14,200 vf over the span of 4 days. All on that bum knee. Throw in some 5.3 and 5.4 alpine climbing, and ya gotta say that is pretty darned amazing.
DArcyS	the prescription for centennial fever . . . 12/16/2013 12:35pm more cow bell . . . but I digress. And that's probably somebody else's line. Sorry. Anyways, congrats to all for a nice climb on a couple toughies in the San Juans. Always feels good to knock those two off.
SnowAlien	Comments 4/2/2015 7:45pm Brian - thanks for counting for me, because I wasn't. I know I still have a long way to go with Centennials. Some of them are really fun mountains indeed. inthemtns - thanks. I wish there would be more mountains like that. Do you know of any other C5 13ers? I am all ears Matt - it was great climbing with you. And GREAT photos. I was really impressed by your cruising through all the tricky sections with such a heavy camera. That really shows dedication to your craft! Dave - how's the married life? Let's climb together something soon. Preferably C5 emohr - thanks. Handle is a unique perch indeed. Before you know it you'll find your way up there. MtnHub - thank you. My PT was definitely not happy with the weekend shenanigans, but as you said, it was tough to pass up this opportunity! Rick - not faking. We should climb again sometime when I am back to normal, maybe then you won't need a 60m 10lb rope as a handicap to slow you down! AND you won't get away so easily from climbing additional peaks. lol Please don't mention any numbers, this likely wasn't too smart on my part. Here is another number for you - I sat longer in traffic on Monday that it took me to climb 2 centennials. Not a great galons per peak ratio. Oh, and you totally rocked this weekend, making everything look so easy. Thanks again for putting together an amazing group. I hope we can climb again soon.

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