Toughest 14ers to go down

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Re: Toughest 14ers to go down

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Just brainstormed with my climbing buddy:

Lindsey
Challenger (buddy hated this worse than I did)
Columbia
Conundrum
N Maroon (I hated the cliff band)

YMMV
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Re: Toughest 14ers to go down

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djkest wrote:Just brainstormed with my climbing buddy:

Lindsey
Challenger (buddy hated this worse than I did)
Columbia
Conundrum
N Maroon (I hated the cliff band)

YMMV
I can imagine that Conundrum's descent would be awful without snow.... I did Castle/Conundrum this summer and went back over Castle on the way down (had to pick up my wife there anyway as she only did Castle). 3 guys did the descent from the Castle/Conundrum saddle, and they were NOT having a good time, a lot of frightened yelling and kicking rocks down. We met them at the top of the jeep road, and they had a lot of 'choice words' to describe that route!
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Re: Toughest 14ers to go down

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Tornadoman wrote:I can imagine that Conundrum's descent would be awful without snow... 3 guys did the descent from the Castle/Conundrum saddle, and they were NOT having a good time, a lot of frightened yelling and kicking rocks down. We met them at the top of the jeep road, and they had a lot of 'choice words' to describe that route!
On the other hand, WITH snow, my GPS clocked me at 23 mph glissading down that basin! :-)
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