Get your mind out of the gutter! Michael Engelstad, Jonny Carson and I met at my place in Fort Collins at 12:00am where we all ate tacos that Jonny and I had been cooking. Before that we were sucking down PBRs at Trailhead. This left us with no sleep and Michael with an hour. To say the least, we weren’t expecting a long day and knew we were fast with approaches and descents. After all, it was intended to be a warm up to the alpine season.
Packing a regular rack and doubles for ropes, we anal-mom-walked to the snow and scree fields below the base where we carefully zig-zagged our way to the route. Not having messed around with doubles in some time, we slowly fumbled about on every belay station until the summit. It was painfully slow. While trying to remember what alpine climbing was like, the three of us led, cleaned, and made anchors slow. Our last meals made the belays quite unpleasant to say the least. As we reached the summit, we were greeted by booming thunder and dark clouds. Time wise the rappels went well, but we still got hit by some small hail on the last one. The descent brought better weather and a few good glissades that quickly turned into races.
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| Sam standing atop the summit |
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