Animas Mountain Route?

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Re: Animas Mountain Route?

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Thanks so much CT!

I actually may do all three peaks...Monitor, 13 and Animas.
These all look great and will fit in well with my 10 day Weminuche summitfest trek from Elk Park to Needleton.
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Re: Animas Mountain Route?

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Animas is a fine Mountain. From my report, "I would rate the chimney as one move of 5.0 followed by fun class 3 scrambling, not exposed, on very solid rock." When I mention solid, it's San Juan solid. The report also has photos to give you an idea of the scrambling and exposure.

Here is a link to my trip report.

http://14ers.com/php14ers/tripreport.ph ... ki=Include" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

If you need more info on any of the peaks, let me know and I can draft routes.

Here is the approximate route up Animas.
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We might actually be in the area a similar time, but I think with different agendas. Jagged is probably our primary, but some in our group still need some peaks in Vestal Creek. We also would be going over to the Storm King group and also plan on the Balsam Lake peaks. I have all the stuff in Ruby minus Peak 15, so I think we will focus more on the other drainages for efficiency, but maybe our groups will cross paths somewhere along the way.
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See this link for a map of the route I'll be taking http://www.summitpost.org/view_object.p ... irm_post=7

It's an interactive map so you can zoom in and scroll around.

We will be going from north to south from Elk Park to Needleton from June 23rd through July 3rd

If anyone sees something that may not go let me know. Two peaks we will likely do aren't labeled...Monitor and Peak 13.

Thanks Furthermore for the very informative TR
BTW...if anyone knows for 100% sure that they can join on this trek I have planned let me know.
The friend I'm going with still is not 100% sure he can go and I'd like to get someone who is as committed as I am if I can.
Matt

Peaks we will do include:
Arrow
Vestal
East and Main Trinity (maybe west as well)
Storm King
Silex
Guardian
Leviathan
Jagged
Peak 6
Monitor
Peak 13
Animas Mtn
Pigeon
Turret
Eolus
North Eolus
Sunlight
Windom
Jupiter
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Matt Lemke wrote:See this link for a map of the route I'll be taking http://www.summitpost.org/view_object.p ... irm_post=7

It's an interactive map so you can zoom in and scroll around.

We will be going from north to south from Elk Park to Needleton from June 23rd through July 3rd

If anyone sees something that may not go let me know. Two peaks we will likely do aren't labeled...Monitor and Peak 13.

Thanks Furthermore for the very informative TR
That's an ambitious plan for 10 days.
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It actually only averages 5 miles per day. I went very conservative with the horizontal distance between camps and am focusing more on vertical travel :)
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Matt Lemke wrote:It actually only averages 5 miles per day. I went very conservative with the horizontal distance between camps and am focusing more on vertical travel :)
That's what I'm talking about.
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Are you doing Wham?
Ropes?
Might want one on Jagged anyway, maybe.
Lot of extra weight (rope, gear, harnesses, etc.) for 10 days w/food.

That's an ambitious plan for 10 days.
Is Jed going? :lol:
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yes..we will have a climbing rope, harnesses and rock pro. We will be freeze drying every scrap of food we bring.

And no...Jed isn't going....yet :twisted:

I'm expecting 60 pounds per person to start the trip which for me is very managable...by the end I'll be down to 40
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Re: Animas Mountain Route?

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Some comments:

Save the rr trip, and start on Molas Pass. You'll hike sooner on day 1. The Trinities traverse (all three) is a classic and better done west to east (your plan, while doable, skips the best part of the traverse). Be careful, and don't underestimate the relative difficulty of the climbing. You'll have some long climbing days, and then have to move camp to keep your schedule. Lots (most of trip) of off trail/non maintained travels will slow you down. Still haven't figured out how you're going to climb all those peaks in ten days???
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Matt Lemke wrote:yes..we will have a climbing rope, harnesses and rock pro. We will be freeze drying every scrap of food we bring.

And no...Jed isn't going....yet :twisted:

I'm expecting 60 pounds per person to start the trip which for me is very managable...by the end I'll be down to 40
10 days worth of food, and w/climbing gear, you can get your pack to 60lbs?! Damn, I'm doing something wrong!

Looks like a fun and cool trip!
Good luck...
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rijaca wrote:Still haven't figured out how you're going to climb all those peaks in ten days???
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