Indian Peaks Wilderness - 13er Navajo Peak via Niwot Ridge

Alpine lakes, soaring Rocky Mountain peaks, and a plane wreckage all feature in this beautiful summer outing. I ascended Navajo via the fun and scrambly Niwot Ridge, and descended the Airplane Gully to visit the 1947 plane crash that lies there. #colorado #rockymountains

[@BrokenPaddleAdventures]

Playing in my old back yard! Have a great time and many adventures!

[@andrewbriscoe5953]

Wow, great video and climb, awesome job!

[@xyzhuman7766]

Super beautiful!

[@david-yj6uv]

I can also see those peaks from where I live, I’ll have to head up there sometime. Thanks for the great video, subscribed.

[@matt6829]

i felt the glory through my screen for sure! what an interesting story about the plane crash too, kind of grim! what an awesome peak though beautiful scenes

[@JessPurviance]

Dude, this was great. I need to do this sometime.
Also, I backpacked into Diamond Lake and summited S. Arapahoe last week. It was so much fun.

[@montaneist]

Awesome! That's one of my favorite views (that I've seen anyway) in the whole state

[@JaredParker-si8fm]

How long would you say it took to complete the ridge? Also wondering how you felt about some of the down climbing along it. I’m comfortable on exposed class 3 and love scrambling but I hate downclimbing haha. Thinking about doing this route on monday!

[@montaneist]

I might have missed your timing already, but I don't think the ridge took super long. The portion that requires scrambling is only about half a mile long; I don't think I spent much more than an hour on it, taking my time. The rest is tundra walking/boulder hopping. Downclimbing is definitely necessary but you normally have a couple different line options that allow you to make the difficulty easier/harder.

[@richardscott3126]

You should watch some Nick Sangetta videos. They are Much more informative.