T5 - Chicago - United States

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T5 - Chicago - United States

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Not a lot of info out there on these. Hoping to connect them. Do the ridges go? Intermittent 4th or less I mean. Apparently Mendota/T5 does not go on the Mendota side.

Edit: Sounds like T5/Chicago doesn't go either. What about Chicago/US?
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Went US Mtn to "T 8" a few years ago.

The ridge from US Mtn to Pt. 13242 north of Chicago had a surprising bit of gnar. 3rd or 4th on choss flakes with bad exposure. In the end we were surprised to have found a way through. Something like this:

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Didn't go to "T 5" but the ridge looked tough from the south. Perhaps bypasses on north side? Looks cool in any case:

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Trying to find a slightly less crap photo. Here's the same stretch from a different perspective:

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Thanks. The T 7/8 ridge doesn't go, either. That whole area from Hayden to Sneffels, gotta pick those suckers off one at a time.
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TravelingMatt wrote:Thanks. The T 7/8 ridge doesn't go, either. That whole area from Hayden to Sneffels, gotta pick those suckers off one at a time.
We checked out T5 from Chicago once, it definitely didn't go. The loose choss bypass we started to try was horrible and we turned around figuring it wouldn't be a successful combo and be way too time consuming.

T7/8 actually does combine (just not on the ridge), if you drop of the ridge after climbing T7 and bypass the nasty step, its only 200' of reclimb to the saddle with T8, the first half of which is on smooth sailing grass. We did it from the Ouray side of the Imogene Pass Road.
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My brother and I were able to combine Mendota and T5 from Governor Basin. We went up to the saddle (which is part of the Hardrock 100 route), and the ridge to T5 was easy. We went back to the saddle and dropped to about 12,900' in Marshall Basin to get around the difficulties on the east ridge of Mendota.

I'm impressed with Boggy B's route to connect Point 12242 and United States. I had climbed up to the flat area west of that saddle from Imogene Basin, and decided the downclimb into that saddle was too hard for me. 13095 is a fairly easy side trip off the main ridge (just some tedious talus), and the ridge south from Point 12242 to Chicago is easy.
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