What are your Summer 13er goals?

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Re: What are your Summer 13er goals?

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TomPierce wrote:I also have plans other than 13ers for this year.
Me, too, but those are central to my plans...
In Colorado, I have seven centennials left. Finishing that list comes first, along with the nearby kickass peaks like the Trinities, Arrow, etc.
Next come 13ers with 2k of prominence that I have left: Treasure Mountain; West Elk; Jacque; Twilight Peak;South River (partners, anyone?).
Those are goals. The rest are just peaks that look like a blast.
Finishing the Ice Lake area scrambles (PK, USG, GH), a trip to Slate Lake and/or Peak C + Eagles Nest, and/or a trip back to the Lindsey area for Huerfanito/13660 all sound great.
I'm working on the lowest 100 Colorado 13ers, as well. This list is chock full of interesting peaks.
Also on the calendar already or in the works: Mauna Loa/Mauna Kea; Cloud Peak (Wyoming); Truchas Peaks (NM).
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Re: What are your Summer 13er goals?

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As of this past Sunday I now have two 'revenge' trips to undertake - Santa Fe and friends (Sullivan, Geneva, and Landslide) from Geneva Creek and James/Bancroft via St. Mary's (turned back by wind). I may try and park two cars and do the string Flora, Eva, Parry, Bancroft, James but for me, that's a long long day.

I have Rodgers, Warren, Epaulet, Epaulie, and Rosalie on my radar to finish the Evans area and I really really want to go give Pettingell, The Citadel, Hagar, and Golden Bear a go.

So all Front Range goals but who knows what the year will bring!
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Re: What are your Summer 13er goals?

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Though my summer goals mostly include 14ers...I do have a short list of 13ers I want to go for. They include Mt. Meeker, Mt. Adams, Red Mountain, and Mt. Oklahoma. If we have the kind of fall weather we have had the last 2 years then I will be spending a lot of time going after 13ers, with a focus on the closer ranges like the front range, misquito, ten mile, and sawatch.
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Re: What are your Summer 13er goals?

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1) Peak 1-Peak 10 traverse (maybe Crystal if my legs can hold up).
2) Mummy Mania
3) East & West Spanish (yeah only 1 is a 13er, whatever!)
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Re: What are your Summer 13er goals?

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Getting the hell to the San Juan's as much as possible.

Finish the front range 13ers and Sawatch and Sangre Centennials.

At least 5 Gore Peaks.

Wow, typing those plans got me excited, bring it on!

Now all I wanna know.......... Who's coming with me???? :)
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TravelingMatt wrote: So in all that's 60-70 peaks, which would put me around 200 ranked 13ers by year's end.
Jesus dude... I want your free time. :mrgreen:
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Re: What are your Summer 13er goals?

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The main goals are to finish the 13ers before Furthermore (should be close) and to crash one of Papillion's secretive hiking trips.

Wishlist (likely will only get 2/3-3/4 of them this year. 14-15 weekends estimated):

Gore
-Eagle's Nest to Powell (scramble)
-Slate Lake area 13ers (scramble/views)

Sawatch
-Finnegan to Gold Dust to Pika (scramble/views)
-Geissler/Twining loop (scramble)
-Williams traverse (scramble)

Frange
-Rabbithole, Alice (snow)
-Dreamweaver, Meeker (snow/ice)
-Blitzen Ridge

Elks
-Siberia (views)
-Hagerman SW ridge (scramble/views)

Sangres
-Crestolita N side routes (scramble/snow)
-Tijeras to Music to Milwaukee to Aislado (scramble)
-Mt Herard (Dunes views)

San Juans
-Mt Emma and surrounding peaks
-Coxcomb and surrounding peaks
-Vestal and the Trinities
-Ice Lakes basin peaks
-Jagged

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Re: What are your Summer 13er goals?

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Monster5 wrote:The main goals are to finish the 13ers before Furthermore (should be close) and to crash one of Papillion's secretive hiking trips.

Wishlist (likely will only get 2/3-3/4 of them this year. 14-15 weekends estimated):

Gore
-Eagle's Nest to Powell (scramble)
-Slate Lake area 13ers (scramble/views)

Sawatch
-Finnegan to Gold Dust to Pika (scramble/views)
-Geissler/Twining loop (scramble)
-Williams traverse (scramble)

Frange
-Rabbithole, Alice (snow)
-Dreamweaver, Meeker (snow/ice)
-Blitzen Ridge

Elks
-Siberia (views)
-Hagerman SW ridge (scramble/views)

Sangres
-Crestolita N side routes (scramble/snow)
-Tijeras to Music to Milwaukee to Aislado (scramble)
-Mt Herard (Dunes views)

San Juans
-Mt Emma and surrounding peaks
-Coxcomb and surrounding peaks
-Vestal and the Trinities
-Ice Lakes basin peaks
-Jagged

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That's a mighty fine list there. I need quite a few of those too.
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Re: What are your Summer 13er goals?

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Plain and Simple: WEMINUCHE (and other San Juans)
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Re: What are your Summer 13er goals?

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I like Monster's list. Can I join you?

My goal (i.e., hopes & dreams) for the summer is to get back to Colorado for an extended vacation. IF that happens, I may poach a Monster trip and maybe one of those secretive Papi trips too. If I fail at that, not all hope will be lost because I'll find other things to do. ;)
I would like to put some focus on cherry picking some peaks from my top 100 list though. And of course to add to my Gore Experience.
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Re: What are your Summer 13er goals?

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Monster5 wrote:The main goals are to finish the 13ers before Furthermore (should be close) and to crash one of Papillion's secretive hiking trips.

Wishlist (likely will only get 2/3-3/4 of them this year. 14-15 weekends estimated):

Gore
-Eagle's Nest to Powell (scramble)
-Slate Lake area 13ers (scramble/views)

Sawatch
-Finnegan to Gold Dust to Pika (scramble/views)
-Geissler/Twining loop (scramble)
-Williams traverse (scramble)

Frange
-Rabbithole, Alice (snow)
-Dreamweaver, Meeker (snow/ice)
-Blitzen Ridge

Elks
-Siberia (views)
-Hagerman SW ridge (scramble/views)

Sangres
-Crestolita N side routes (scramble/snow)
-Tijeras to Music to Milwaukee to Aislado (scramble)
-Mt Herard (Dunes views)

San Juans
-Mt Emma and surrounding peaks
-Coxcomb and surrounding peaks
-Vestal and the Trinities
-Ice Lakes basin peaks
-Jagged

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I'm down for a lot of this so you might be successful. Seriously though, we should make it happen. Sexton was a pretty cool outing last summer. I don't know about your buddy FireontheMountain though. The guy pulled into Cottonwood Creek last Friday evening, made a shitload of racket and didn't even say hello. As I slept there I kept expecting him to put a brick through my windshield. But I digress...

As far as my goals, I want to disappear in the Weminuche for a full week again, preferably with a car drop. Maybe Beartown to Vallecito or Molas to Vallecito. The logistics of a big trip are pretty awesome - counting ounces and measuring calories, meal prep, miles and vert, etc.

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Re: What are your Summer 13er goals?

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Matt's and Monster5's lists best represent the substance and spirit of my own wishlist. But with buying a house and getting married, I've decided it's best not to create a list of mountaineering goals for this year. I'm sure that, whenever I get some free time, bergsteigen's maxim will have a strong hand in my climbing decisions:
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