Mt Blue Sky
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Mt Blue Sky
thought i'd start a different thread to solicit interesting, unique routes to re-summit one of my least favorite peaks and maybe turn it into one of my favorites... who's got the best, senselessly difficult way up and back again. style points obviously count
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Re: Mt Blue Sky
If you haven't already done it, I found the Tour De Abyss to be a very fun and unique route. It seems to be getting more popular but its a fun way to link both Bierstadt and Blue Sky. The initial descent down the gully is a bit meh, but you get it done right away and it has some fun scrambling the rest of the way.
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Re: Mt Blue Sky
BTW, the renaming of Evans has mostly been completed on the site. This excludes trip reports, peak condition updates and trailhead status updates.
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Re: Mt Blue Sky
On that note, does anyone know if they also renamed the Mount Evans Wilderness or just the peak? Because if the latter...BillMiddlebrook wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 8:50 am BTW, the renaming of Evans has mostly been completed on the site. This excludes trip reports, peak condition updates and trailhead status updates.
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To Steph's original question Tour de Abyss, Sawtooth, from the Rosalie area (I don't know the specifics, but apparently you can start and hike over the 13ers from closer to the foothills), the north face couloirs (also some rock climbs on the north face), or coming over Mount Spalding are the other, more exciting ways I know of. I've done Tour de Abyss and Sawtooth and those were nice and coming from Spalding is not terribly exciting but it's a smash hit compared to the road. Evans Egis combines some of these (start at Echo Lake and do a bunch of other peaks en route combined with Tour de Abyss). Evans Egis is probably the most demanding but also the most efficient route since it just gets everything in the area in one fell swoop. I haven't done the north face options but those would be the most technically difficult, and I haven't done the Rosalie start I mentioned but that would probably be kind of boring.
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Re: Mt Blue Sky
The people who rename Wilderness Areas aren't the same people who rename peaks, so the mismatch will be around for an indefinite period.
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Re: Mt Blue Sky
Not all that unique but: a winter ascent from Guanella up the Scott Gomer Creek drainage (to the North towards Gray Wolf, not the traditional Sawtooth descent gully) was a really long day, but a fun way to summit. We had the summit to ourselves. Snowshoed across the willows without issue.
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Re: Mt Blue Sky
What should we rename the Evans Egis to?
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Re: Mt Blue Sky
https://www.14ers.com/php14ers/triprepo ... trip=19700supranihilest wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 8:52 am Evans Egis is probably the most demanding but also the most efficient route since it just gets everything in the area in one fell swoop.
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Re: Mt Blue Sky
can we call it the Scott Gomer Creek Massacre..?
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Re: Mt Blue Sky
I can lay claim to probably the most unique way to climb this one. I've rollerskied (classic- skating would be way too hard and dangerous with the narrow road) from Idaho Springs to the summit 6 times. Because rollerskis have no brakes, I only go up, then ride down in the car with my mom. She drives to the top with me, and we leapfrog Tour de France style.
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Re: Mt Blue Sky
Well that's... nevermind.
Obviously Evans will have to go, but Egis probably too, considering it's a reference to the breastplate worn by Zeus and Athena. Not exactly topical there either.
I'd forgotten just how big that day was. Man that felt good. I'm also working on a body suit tattoo, can you tell I like pain? Masochist's delight indeed.two lunches wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 9:02 amhttps://www.14ers.com/php14ers/triprepo ... trip=19700supranihilest wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 8:52 am Evans Egis is probably the most demanding but also the most efficient route since it just gets everything in the area in one fell swoop.
Also thanks for the reminder that I need to go back and re-do that route because I wasn't fully successful the first time. Who wants to get their ass whooped with me?This is so tongue in cheek.
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