Rocky Mountain National Park: High Peaks The Climber's Guide

by Gillett, Bernard

• ISBN13: 9780964369856
• ISBN10: 0964369850
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Earthbound Sports

Summary

This guide contains over 375 routes on the peaks and alpine walls that are the heart of Rocky Mountain National Park This volume contains a separate chapter that describes over 130 ice and mixed routes *This title is sold at a maximum discount of 42%

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(12)
Wild Basin	13	(8)
Copeland Mountain	13	(1)
Isolation Peak and Eagles Beak	13	(2)
Pilot Mountain	15	(1)
Mount Alice	15	(5)
Longs Peak	20	(1)
Longs Peak Trailhead	21	(72)
Mount Meeker	21	(6)
Longs Peak	27	(66)
Southeast Ridge	31	(2)
The Palisades	33	(2)
Ships Prow	35	(7)
The East Face Cirque	42	(1)
Lower East Face	42	(12)
Chasm View Wall	54	(8)
Upper East Face	62	(3)
The Diamond	65	(23)
North Face	88	(2)
West Face	90	(3)
Glacier Gorge	93	(54)
Half Mountain	93	(3)
Keyboard of the Winds	96	(4)
Sievers' Tower	97	(1)
Jackpot Tower	97	(1)
Mrs. Stubbs	97	(1)
Mr. Stubbs	98	(1)
Dark Tower	98	(2)
Pagoda Mountain	100	(1)
Chiefs Head Peak	101	(14)
Northeast Face	101	(9)
Northwest Face	110	(5)
Spearhead	115	(13)
Mchenrys Peak	128	(5)
Arrowhead	133	(12)
Powell Peak	145	(2)
Loch Vale	147	(34)
Thatchtop and Powell Peak	147	(4)
Lakeside Wall	147	(2)
Vanquished Buttress	149	(2)
Taylor Peak	151	(1)
Cathedral Spires	151	(20)
Stiletto	155	(1)
Sharkstooth	155	(3)
Forbidden Tower	158	(1)
Petit Grepon	159	(2)
Penknife	161	(1)
Saber	161	(3)
Foil	164	(3)
Moon	167	(1)
Jackknife	167	(4)
Cathedral Wall	171	(4)
Buttress	171	(1)
Buttress	171	(1)
Buttress---Main Wall	172	(2)
Buttress	174	(1)
Otis Peak	175	(6)
Loch Vale Pinnacle	175	(2)
Wham	177	(1)
Zowie	177	(2)
Solar Wall	179	(1)
Otis Flower Tower	180	(1)
Bear Lake Area	181	(29)
Hallett Peak	181	(14)
South Side	184	(2)
First Buttress	186	(1)
Second Buttress	187	(5)
Third Buttress	192	(3)
Flattop Mountain	195	(3)
Tyndall Spire	195	(1)
Dragon's Tail	196	(2)
Notchtop Mountain	198	(8)
Little Matterhorn	206	(1)
Tourmaline Spire	207	(1)
Hayden Spires	207	(3)
Hayden Spire	208	(1)
East Pinnacle	208	(1)
Hayden Lake Pinnacle	208	(2)
Moraine Park	210	(8)
Rock of Ages	210	(4)
The Lost World	214	(4)
Gnome Dome	216	(1)
Moot Point Apron	217	(1)
The Colossus	217	(1)
The Mummy Range	218	(10)
Iceberg Lake Wall	218	(1)
Mount Chiquita	218	(1)
Ypsilon Mountain	218	(5)
Fairchild Mountain	223	(5)
Ice and Alpine Climbs	228	(48)
Wild Basin	231	(1)
North Saint Vrain Creek	231	(1)
Isolation Peak	232	(1)
Mount Alice	232	(1)
Longs Peak Trailhead	232	(8)
Chasm Lake Area	233	(1)
Mount Meeker	233	(2)
Longs Peak	235	(5)
Glacier Gorge Trailhead	240	(19)
Thatchtop (Glacier Gorge side)	243	(1)
Arrowhead and McHenrys (Solitude Lake Cirque)	244	(1)
Black Lake	245	(1)
Chiefs Head	246	(1)
McHenrys Peak (East Face)	247	(1)
Loch Vale George	247	(4)
Thatchtop (Loch Vale side)	251	(2)
Loch Area	253	(1)
Powell Peak Area	254	(3)
Taylor Peak	257	(2)
Cathedral Spires and Cathedral Wall	259	(1)
Bear Lake Trailhead	259	(10)
Bear Lake	259	(1)
Nymph Lake	260	(2)
Chaos and Tyndall Creek Drainage	262	(2)
Emerald Lake Area	264	(3)
Hallett Peak	267	(1)
Flattop Mountain (Tyndall Gorge side)	267	(1)
Odessa Gorge and Notchtop	268	(1)
Flattop Mountain (Odessa Gorge side)	269	(1)
Big Thompson Ice	269	(1)
Fern Lake Trailhead	270	(2)
Lawn Lake Trailhead	272	(2)
Ypsilon Mountain	272	(1)
Lawn Lake Area	273	(1)
Fairchild Mountain	273	(1)
Cow Creek Trailhead	274	(2)
Suggested Reading	276	(2)
Index	278	(6)
Route Index by Rating (Free Climbing)	284