Re: least accessible 14er/13er summit in CO?
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2020 3:00 pm
Cool, thanks for the additional info, Michael! I didn't know there was anyone else besides you (and of course Steve) who was even close to the unranked, named peaks, pretty neat that there are others who have completed them! I'm still highly skeptical on boardersage, so glad to see you think it's a troll, even a well known one.Boggy B wrote: ↑Fri Oct 09, 2020 2:51 pmI messaged boardersage but never got a reply. I assume it's Monster5 trolling me.supranihilest wrote: ↑Fri Oct 09, 2020 2:29 pm And the one that has three ascents, Gray Needle, very likely only has two. Whoever boardersage is is very unlikely to have climbed Gray Needle, which until August of this year hadn't seen a documented ascent since the 1950s. I highly doubt someone who just registered to the site this year, has logged a single easy 14er yet two dozen of the most difficult 13ers (and in their three minutes of site activity, no less), and has no other information about themselves actually climbed Gray Needle, so you can safely say that it only has two ascents.
According to Steve Gladbach, Peter Stabolepszy was the first person known to have summitted all of the "Unranked" (Named) 13ers, which implies an ascent of Gray Needle. I reached out and he (Peter) told me that he and his partner spent a bunch of days climbing all the points around there to ensure they bagged Gray Needle, so it seems they got to it before we did. Some doubt his claims, but if his word was good enough for Steve, it's good enough for me. There have probably been other undocumented ascents. However, Stabolepszy didn't find the bolts either, so it is possible the original Gray Needle has never seen a second ascent, at least since all the people who knew where it actually is stopped climbing.
