Mt. Blue Sky Trip Report 03/16/2008

Peak(s):	Mt. Blue Sky - 14,268 feet Mt. Spalding - 13,863 feet
Date Posted:	03/16/2008
Date Climbed:	03/15/2008
Author:	maverick_manley

Evans / Spalding: Winter Ascents

Comments or Questions

doumall	Human Plough 3/17/2008 3:01pm Throughout these reports you keep saying ‘we‘ broke trail, perhaps being a little humble are you? nice report man
SarahT	Congrats... 3/17/2008 6:20pm on a new winter 14er you three! I was very tempted to join, but Dwight was really set on our crazy plan despite the iffy weather forecast and I didn‘t want to let him down. Hope to hike with you guys again soon.
sgladbach	Looked a little cold for that! 3/17/2008 7:38pm ”We stayed on the summit for quite a while eating, fooling around....... ” but, like you said, the three of you have alot of experience this winter. Glad you caught that last little window. Trench On!
shanahan96	plowing.....plow on 3/17/2008 9:41pm prakash, we‘ll let you brake as much trail as you‘d like. if i would have known you‘d be that strong this weekend, i would have stayed in bed friday and let you set the trench saturday! oh yeah, fun winter. the three of us got 5 fourteeners together? think that‘s right. sarah- thanks. i‘d love to climb the mountain you were on this weekend in the next two days, but it‘s not to be this winter. atleast i‘ll have a clear number one next year! steve- who knows what those two were doing. i was warmly bundled up behind a rock shelter plowing through my snacks! it was an annoying cold for the majority of the day. never really cold and never warm enough to feel comfortable. jamie
KirkT	Impressive yet again... 3/18/2008 1:03am there‘s just something about those damn cold temps that ain‘t my cup of tea. Is it Spring yet?? Looks like another epic climb for you and company. Congrats. Kirk
SarahT	TR in the works 3/18/2008 2:58pm Prakash - our climb of Longs went very well. Took us 9.5 hours to summit but it was a lot of fun. I‘m almost done with the TR and will post it soon along with a link to some pics.
jamienellis	That‘s funny, Sarah... 3/18/2008 3:17pm ...it took us 9.5 hours to summit Evans! Congrats! Can‘t wait to see that TR. We took a picture of Longs & Meeker from Evans. We used the zoom, so I‘m pretty sure we can see you guys on top.
jamienellis	just 3/18/2008 3:49pm get down by tomorrow evening to make it count!
Greg777	great post 4/3/2008 10:20pm I‘ve been wondering about Bierstadt and Evans...Great post.
jamienellis	Hey now... 11/30/2010 5:28pm I did my fair share. What was it 2? 2 1/2 minutes? of trail breaking. Just kidding. You are correct, Joe. Prakash is humble. AND, he says in the report that Jamie and I have an impressive number of winter summits; but he doesn't mention that he was on most all of those summits with us & one-up-ed us on some trips. It was a great winter; but I am veeery ready for Spring conditions! Thanks for another great report & awesome pictures Prakash. (PS- The singing definitely made the day more enjoyable too.)
maverick_manley	lol 11/30/2010 5:28pm Sure did feel like 9.5. I still can't believe Evans hwhupped us like that . Boy, now I want to bunk work and go use Sarah's sweet trench.
maverick_manley	Thanks 2/5/2011 12:22am for the comments guys... Joe, we need to git climbin' again homeboy Jamies... always a pleasure to climb with you guys. We made a pretty sweet Winter team. Five summits together in the last month of winter? Sarah, how'd you guys do on Longs? Do you have any pictures from the weekend? Steve, how've you been? How's Cooper? Kirk, where you been man?

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