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| Report Type |
Mini |
| Peak(s) |
Mt. Princeton - 14,200 feet
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| Date Posted |
03/06/2006 |
| Date Climbed |
03/06/2006 |
| Author |
chris1217 |
| Report |
Only a few things to add to TalusMonkey and Devotchkatatas accounts of the ascent, which has all of the basic information.
The summit view: It was a very clear day on Sunday. Take a look at the 14er map and you can understand why the view from Princeton is incredible> we could see the Sangres, the Elk range, the northernmost San Juans, Evans massif, Pikes, obviously the other Sawatch (except Elbert and Massive, which were hidden behind others... I dont recall a better panorama yet on the 14ers Ive done. The panorama picture on this website is nice - but hike the mountain! The picture is not enough.
Getting to the road heading up to the Radio Towers from the Mt Princeton trailhead: Go into the trailhead parking area, and continue on through the right hand turn of the two roads on the left side of the parking area (not the Frontier Ranch road.) The road was passable to the Radio Tower, but beyond that, the road is considerably packed with drifed snow, from the top of the road cutout to the shoulder in many places. It would likely not be passable this year until late in the spring or early summer. Below the radio towers, my assessment is that snow chains are definitely good to bring along.
Our group also did a butt-slide to get back to the bottom. No pun intended. Thats nothing but good clean fun.
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