Mt. Harvard Trip Report 09/28/2009

Peak(s):	Mt. Harvard - 14,424 feet Mt. Columbia - 14,075 feet
Date Posted:	09/28/2009
Date Climbed:	09/19/2009
Author:	slaggbottom

Harvard Columbia Sept Traverse

Comments or Questions

skier25	Great Pictures! 9/28/2009 4:02pm Great Report! It‘s nice to see the fall colors changing. No snow in Montana yet, really. sigh
14ercbear	great report-am i good enough? 9/28/2009 10:40pm This would be my within my first ten fourteeners. I will be 13 when I climb, and at age 11 and succesfully climbed pikes, and huron, along with sherman with a stomach bug. Do ya think I could do hardvard?
slaggbottom	13 on Harvard 9/29/2009 4:31am We met a 13 year old on Columbia who had climbed all the Sawatch this year. It‘s a LONG hike to Harvard, but not difficult. It would be good to save this mountain til later in the year, after you get some other practice hikes in. Just start early, and hike with good company.
bergsteigen	Nice photos! 9/30/2009 5:14pm So that‘s what it would have looked like, if we had gotten there earlier... Glad someone was able to get the traverse in this day!
kimo	Nice and timely 10/1/2009 12:05am Great beta and your photos are fantastic! I like those panoramas. I‘ve been thinking about this marathon since early summer but wasn‘t convinced I had the endurance at the time. After a great summer, I‘m ready to attempt the route this weekend with a couple friends. I printed your TR to aid us. Not sure what conditions we‘ll find but it will be a excellent adventure nonetheless. Thanks for the six-star report.
randalmartin	Awesome Pictures 10/4/2009 5:27am My climbing partner and I are planning to do this next weekend, but I have to ask what type of camera and lens are you using on the panorama shots. Spectacular photos.
slaggbottom	camera & lens 10/4/2009 2:45pm I used my Canon XSI DSLR, with the Canon 10-22mm wide angle for most of my pics. The large panoramas are stitched with Microsoft ICE software (free), and I used Photoshop Lightroom for dynamic balancing. Good luck!
COmedic04	Wow! 10/5/2009 11:42am Great TR, and without sounding too redundant, AWESOME pictures!

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