I-70, MM218
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I-70, MM218
When you're driving west on I-70, about 2 miles before you get to the tunnel, right at MM218, there's a peak which (from the highway) has an almost perfect "pyramid" shape. Of course, as you get closer and drive by it turns out to not be a pyramid at all.
Anyway, it looks like it'd be possible to pull off at the 218 exit, park, and hike the thing, doesn't look long at all.
Anyone hiked that, know if it's got a name, anything like that?
Every time I drive up to the mountains I want to climb it, I just haven't done it... Thanks!
Anyway, it looks like it'd be possible to pull off at the 218 exit, park, and hike the thing, doesn't look long at all.
Anyone hiked that, know if it's got a name, anything like that?
Every time I drive up to the mountains I want to climb it, I just haven't done it... Thanks!
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Mt. Bethel - 12,705'
Pyramid-shaped and copper-colored as you see it driving westbound before the tunnel. To climb it, use the Loveland Pass exit and pull off at the dirt road on the right just after you exit. Walk up the road past a gate and up to a mill area where you can climb directly up Bethel's SW Slope. It's the peak with the large snow fences near the top.
Pyramid-shaped and copper-colored as you see it driving westbound before the tunnel. To climb it, use the Loveland Pass exit and pull off at the dirt road on the right just after you exit. Walk up the road past a gate and up to a mill area where you can climb directly up Bethel's SW Slope. It's the peak with the large snow fences near the top.
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Image of Mt Bethel from the highway... good call Bill!
http://www.summitpost.org/image/186556/ ... ethel.html
http://www.summitpost.org/image/186556/ ... ethel.html
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Herman Gulch/Mile marker 218
I think Bill gets the prize...It's Mt Bethel. I've never climbed the side you can see from I70, looks like a lot of avy danger. If you follow the trail up from the parking lot (Herman's Gulch) it ends up going by the North side of Mt Bethel. Was up there in Dec and above treeline (for the most part) it was blown free of snow. The trail also runs up to the divide or Pettingel Peak.
Why do I climb?...If you have to ask, you wouldn't understand!!
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Yeah, Mt. Bethel it is.
I climbed it last September from the Herman's Gulch side. I pretty much just followed an old avy. path to an upper (shallow) basin and headed up the small ridge SE to the summit. I didn't last too long on top due to an incoming storm, or more like blizzard! The storm completely obscurred Pettingal Peak and the The Citadel!
Easy stuff though. No more then class 2 at most.
I climbed it last September from the Herman's Gulch side. I pretty much just followed an old avy. path to an upper (shallow) basin and headed up the small ridge SE to the summit. I didn't last too long on top due to an incoming storm, or more like blizzard! The storm completely obscurred Pettingal Peak and the The Citadel!
Easy stuff though. No more then class 2 at most.
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pvnisher, keep in mind the reason why those snow fences are there. To protect the highway from avalanches coming off Mt Bethel. That face to the right of the snow fences in Bill's picture above is a big avalanche path that gets windloaded which the fences are trying to protect. Even with the snow fences that cornice can get pretty big.