Colorado peak questions, condition requests and other info.
Forum rules
This is a mountaineering forum, so please keep your posts on-topic. Posts do not all have to be related to the 14ers but should at least be mountaineering-related.
Personal attacks and confrontational behavior will result in removal from the forum at the discretion of the administrators.
Do not use this forum to advertise, sell photos or other products or promote a commercial website.
Posts will be removed at the discretion of the site administrator or moderator(s), including: Troll posts, posts pushing political views or religious beliefs, and posts with the purpose of instigating conflict within the forum.
For more details, please see the Terms of Use you agreed to when joining the forum.
ClimbingFool wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 2:53 pm
Legal considerations aside, what's the typical way to climb Lindsey on these unsupported link-ups. Dash the gash out and back, or do Lindsey on its own from the East?
When solo, seems to make the most sense from the east. That's a long ways with some consequential terrain to not do it as a through-hike out to the east side. Besides, pretty sure if he's decided not to do LB-Blanca traverse, he definitely isn't going for Gash.
Doing Lindsey after Culebra... and setting yourself up for the Crestone Group from Westcliffe just makes sense.
Traveling light is the only way to fly.
IG: @colorado_invasive
Strava: Brent Herring
2.88 hrs low traverse to Blanca. Not sure what pushed him that way; the weather has been building east of the Sangres but it looks like it's been relatively calm on the west side.
Looks like he’s hit the Culebra red tape speed bump.
I could be mistaken but this record seems increasingly difficult with the ever-increasing, unpredictable access issues: Culebra, Lindsey, Decalibron, Bells parking, Longs parking, Quandary parking, etc., etc.
Keep scooting Dan. Screw the man.
Traveling light is the only way to fly.
IG: @colorado_invasive
Strava: Brent Herring
Here are stats through his start up Culebra at 7:07am.
Hobbs 2022-07-09.JPG
I've added the two columns on the right to allocate his transition time (black highlighted) between driving and not driving. This is one of the differences between supported and self-supported. Dan can't sleep/recover while he's driving whereas Andrew in 2015 had a bed in the van where he could crash in while moving between trailheads. Another difference is that Dan has to loop back to his car (Matterhorn TH, Lake Como Rd TH, American Basin TH) rather than thru-hiking to the next peak.
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
glenmiz wrote: ↑Sat Jul 09, 2022 12:20 pm Dan is hauling.
Understatement. After knocking all 14 San Juan peaks, and then LB, Blanca, and EP, he just did Culebra up and back in 4 hours. Freakish. Nothing but admiration, awe, and respect.
"If you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, and you say to this mountain, 'move from here to there,' it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you." Matthew 17:21
Jorts wrote: ↑Sat Jul 09, 2022 8:14 am
I could be mistaken but this record seems increasingly difficult with the ever-increasing, unpredictable access issues: Culebra, Lindsey, Decalibron, Bells parking, Longs parking, Quandary parking, etc., etc.