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(in the order that we completed them)

  1. Mount Bierstadt
  2. Mount Sherman
  3. Mount Antero
  4. Mount Princeton
  5. Mount Yale
  6. Pikes Peak
  7. Mount Democrat
  8. Mount Lincoln
  9. Mount Bross
  10. Mount Quandry
  11. Mount Evans
  12. Grays Peak
  13. Torreys Peak
  14. San Luis Peak
  15. Redcloud Peak
  16. Sunshine Peak
  17. Handies Peak
  18. Uncomparghe Peak
  19. Wetterhorn Peak
  20. Sunlight Peak
  21. Windom Peak
  22. Mount Eolus
  23. Mount Sneffels
  24. Wilson Peak
  25. Mount Wilson
  26. Mount Huron
  27. Mount Missouri
  28. Mount Oxford
  29. Mount Belford
  30. La Plata Peak
  31. Mount Elbert
  32. Mount Holy Cross
  33. Mount Shavano
  34. Tabegauche Peak
  35. Blanca Peak
  36. Ellingwood Point
  37. Little Bear
  38. Mount Lindsey
  39. Mount Humboldt
  40. Kit Carson
  41. Challenger Point
  42. Crestone Peak
  43. Crestone Needle
  44. Culebra Peak
  45. Maroon Peak
  46. Pyramid Peak
  47. North Maroon Peak
  48. Capitol Peak
  49. Snowmass Peak
  50. Castle Peak
  51. Mount Harvard
  52. Mount Columbia
  53. Mount Massive
  54. Longs Peak

Original List

(The mountains in the order we originally planned to attempt them)

Calendar of Climbs

 

 

 

 

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Mount Shavano

Date to Climb: July 12, 2009

Date Climbed: July 10, 2009

Elevation: 14,229

Range: Sawatch

Latitude: 38.61930, Longitude: -106.23930

Route: East Slopes ll, Class 2

Tabegauche Peak

Date to Climb: July 12, 2009

Date Cimbed: July 10, 2009

Elevation: 14,155

Range: Sawatch

Latitude: 38.62544, Longitude: -106.25081

Route: From Shavano (Southeast) ll, Class 2

Round-Trip Mileage: 11.25 (for combo)

Pre-Climb Comments

Back in the Sawatch’s we will be happy to be on familiar ground. Jake has climbed Shavano before so we should be able to have him with us at least until starting up Tabegauche. If we find the best route, he will be able to climb it as well. He does not do well in fields of big boulders. We have to leave Blank Cabin and drive to San Luis about 100 miles, but it is a thirty mile dirt road at the end.

Post-Climb Comments

Arriving at Blank Cabin Trailhead on July 09, we were rested and ready to climb. To beat all, we scored on a great campsite, maybe the best EVER. The site was on the edge of a field overlooking the valley below and the perimeter mountains. It was pretty spectacular.

Blank Camp

Camp near Blank Cabin

Jake stayed in the Element and with Nick, as we left for the climb around six. (By the way Nick had just completed climbing Elbert and Massive in the same day!) It was a quick climb, though really steep. Soon we had climbed Shavano and then traversed to Tabegauche. We climbed Tab last summer and had learned the correct route through trial and error.

Shavano summit

Mount Shavano Summit

Returning to Shavano we found Jon and Laura approaching the summit. They were in good spirits and were moving well. We could see it in their eyes, they were going for the two summit day.

It was great to see them succeed and also great for us to summit. It was a hard climb that did not waste too many steps.

Mount Shavano - July 10, 2009 summit check

Mount Tabegauche - July 10, 2009 summit check