Thorn in my side...
Tom Pierce, holy s**t!
Tmud, tripping along and learning.... hahaha [perm-grin, not permafrost]
Crags Trail? I think I know this slope and felt uneasy about it too during a winter climb after heavy snow fallCoHi591 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 8:39 pm
1. Crossing steep snow without an axe early season on Pikes. It was still dark, and there were foot prints across, and it didn't look that steep, and we had spikes. My partner made it across, I made it half way and panicked. Legitimately probably the most scared I've ever been in the mountains. it wasn't a certain death runout but it would have HURT, it was steeper than I'd thought. I was trying to use my knees and elbows as ice axes which is laughable, finally I backtracked. My buddy crossed back over without incident, I had bloody cuts all over both elbows and knees, and as the sun came up we saw it was remarkably easy to go up and around the thing. This wasn't my first time in Pikes, I had done if I recall correctly 46 of the 14ers at this point plus dozens of repeats, I have no idea why I mentally checked out and was like "ah it's fine this is just Pikes".
Bro the same s**t happened to me. Ran out of water with two friends on a 90 degree April morning and all we had in the car was a 6 pack of Smirnoff ice which we looked forward to for the entire last 2 miles down those horrible switchbacks when you think you’re almost there. And it was so so incredible, I will never again misunderestimate Smirnoff iceTrotter wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 10:04 pm Climbed Guadalupe Peak in west Texas... in June... With 1 liter of water.
Figured its only 3000 feet gain, and only an 8er. And I'll start at dawn anyways, so it'll be nice and cool.
Ran out of water on descent. Stopping multiple times for leg cramps. Temperature at parking lot was in 90s. Stupid.
No one person has actually done all 50 Classic Climbs. Some of the climbs are completely out of condition because of climate change, some have fallen off the mountain they were on. A husband/wife team (Smileys) actually tried; they did The Casual Route as their first climb, but that's not even on the list (D1 is). Some pretty bold, Alaskan and BC climbs on that list.
Not exactly Guadalupe but we had a horrible adventure hiking over to El Capitan from Guadalupe. We misunderstood the advice we had been given and thought it would only take 30 minutes or so each way. Well....no. The terrain was awful and we were getting scratched up by cactus and thorns everywhere. The summit was farther away than we expected too. We had thought there was another way down (there wasn't). Everything cliffed out except the way we had come. We had to return by our heinous ascent route and eventually got back to the Guadalupe trail. Our little detour had taken an extra 4 hours not 1 hour.Trotter wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 10:04 pm Climbed Guadalupe Peak in west Texas... in June... With 1 liter of water.
Figured its only 3000 feet gain, and only an 8er. And I'll start at dawn anyways, so it'll be nice and cool.
Ran out of water on descent. Stopping multiple times for leg cramps. Temperature at parking lot was in 90s. Stupid.