Maroon Bells Traverse - CO 14ers Finisher! - South to North
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ย. 2024
- The Maroon Bells are very iconic and photographed mountains, located in the Maroon-Snowmass wilderness near Aspen, Colorado. Hitting both peaks in one day, via the traverse, from south to north in this case, is one of the four great traverses for the Colorado 14ers, and, in my opinion, the most technical. These were my 14ers finishers!
Not only did you finish a legendary adventure, but in the process you created arguably the best route videos on the internet. Thank you for your dedication to filming along the way.
thanks for the kind words
Congrats on finishing the 14ers Kevin! Great accomplishment, especially getting them done a quickly as you have coming from out of state! In was a joy and honor to join you for 7 of these final tougher ones. What a great way to finish on North Maroon!
Wow. This was pure joy to watch from beginning to end.
thanks!
congrats man! enjoyed all the videos, as crazy as they are......!!! challenging and technical.
Amazing accomplishment! Incredible views. Congratulations KB
thanks! I'll be home for a couple days next week btw
Congrats quite the accomplishment!
Holy shit dude that climb and descent from north maroon peak was WILD. Congrats on checking all the 14ers off
it was fun!
Congratulations!🎉🙌🏾👏🏾
thx
Great video! CO was my top place to move to before I got glued to WA. When you get a chance, come to WA-OR and live off the Cascades and the Volcanoes. (Hood, Rainier, Adams, Old Snowy, Goat Rocks, etc.)
I got videos on Adams, Rainier, Hood, St Helens! But I'm gonna be up that way for 2 separate weekend in late Aug and early Sept. Probably gonna be doing something in North Cascades or the Enchantments one trip, and 3 sisters and crater lake the other. Maybe the Loowit Trail too
@@HikingEngineer Awesome! Definitely do the Enchantment in fall, don't forget to reserve shuttle to the trailhead. South Sister, yes! As Loowit goes - perhaps Mt St Helens circumnavigation with Loowit Falls ~34mi - clockwise recommended :) If not enough, Mt Hood's Timberline ~45mi. Or Mt Rainier's Wonderland ~93 mi multiday. But a personal local favorite: Table Mtn from North Bonneville TH - the home of the "Harder" and "Hardest" routes to the top. On the TM summit(s), you can see all the big volcano peaks and awesome Service berries.
@@gotsu21 so I'll 2 days on each trip, Saturday and Sunday, before flying out around 8:30 Sunday night for each (one from Seattle, one from PDX). So I need to fill 2 days and be able to get back to the airport by 7 pm or so. For Seattle, I was either thinking: hikes in North Cascades (say two medium ones, like Sourdough), Enchantments, or Loowit. For Portland, was thinking one days in the three sisters area (summitting as many as a i can), then one day doing Crater Lake stuff. I will look into Table Mtn!
@@gotsu21 also, I've done Timberline trail in each direction as day hikes (I have a video on it!)
@@HikingEngineer for Loowit, it's much closer to Portland(PDX) and the rest of Oregon destinations. For Enchantment, it's an asshauling up Aasgard Pass and then hiking stopper views the entire way with Tamarack fall colors + plus some side peak bagging - Saturday Octoberfest night in the town of Leavenworth (nice German town). Btw, why not travel on weekdays? skip the crowds both in the wilderness and the zoos(PDX/SeaTac) 😉
Great job!!! Still want to see you do Bridge Mtn. next time you’re in Zion. Pine Valley Peak is another one right next to Wildcat TH that will be a great test.
Bridge will be done at some point. Isn't Pine Valley the one with the extreme bushwhack until you hit the rock? Or is that another one right there
Yeah Pine Valley is big white peak right next to trailhead. If you drop in right behind restroom there’s a bushwhack or you can hike a mile on wildcat then take first right on Hop connector which takes you to it. Pine Valley Peak is tough to find beta on and there’s some low class 5.
If I hear Kevin say, 'that was so challenging, be prepared for a slog' I know it's as hard as it gets, haha! Great job Kevin! It's also great to see your videos improving. Keep it up.
I'm headed to Europe end of this week to do some of the big boys in the Alps, so big videos coming! Although those tough 14ers in CO should tide people over for a bit
fyi that section was up 2500' in 1 mile
Congratulations! You could do the 15 CA 14ers- fewer but harder! Or the 15 Sierra Emblem Peaks. Or the 39 Sierra Mountaineers' Peaks, which are really just scrambles. Or the 242 Sierra Club Sierra peaks list. Or all the major Cascade Volcanoes- I think there's 16? Washington State has something called the Bulger list, like 80 peaks. The Sierra Club also has a Desert Peaks Section list of 80+.
ha looks like I got a lot to get to
Congrats. In CO the next target would be the Centennial 13ers. Or to finish all the 14ers in lower 48. Or all western state high points. Lots of options
I think I'll be doing the rest of the CA 14ers next (I've done Whitney, Muir, Langley) and then still need to bag Granite, Gannett, Boundary, and Borah for western state high pts
Congrats on finishing the 14ers! Any plans on making it out to Idaho for the Borah to Lost River Peak traverse?
thanks! I want to hit state high points so Borah is on my list but not aware of the traverse -- I'll put it on my list. Next summer I wanna hit gannett, granite, and borah
@@HikingEngineer Nice, gonna do Gannett as a dayhike? I did Fremont Peak in a one day push and I've heard of a few people doing Gannett in a day, only 40 miles or so
@@jamessquires7898 yes I would do it as a day hike
Hey man, been following your videos from AZ and now CO. I’m trying to plan a backpacking trip to include nabbing a 14er. Any recommendations on which mountains/trails would make for a good backpacking trip? Hoping to stay away from the crowds of the front range
I guess that's kinda up to you...any of the mountains you can wander off trail as long as you leave no trace and follow camping regulations/permit rules. I almost never camp so I'm not super well versed in all the camping regulations and what the best camping spots are. The easier 14ers closer to Denver are most popular, so if you wanna get away I would go out in the San Juans on the Elks somewhere
@@HikingEngineer That’s what I was thinking and I am pretty set on doing Chicago Basin and Windom Peak. Not too worried about camping spots, I usually always find somewhere to pitch up for the night
@@WolfPackM98c chicago basin is big enough that you can get some space, although there will be 20 to 50 other people somewhere in the area most likely
@@HikingEngineer That is what I was thinking, but I’ve heard it’s one of the lesser visited 14er areas. Are there better ones for encountering less people?
@@WolfPackM98c Four pass loop in the Elks is very nice. You can camp at Snowmass Lake and climb Snowmass while there. You will not be disappointed with Chicago Basin either.
Now that you're done, which 14ers and 14er combos stand out to you as being the most difficult? Both physically and technically
most technical would be the Bells Traverse -- in terms of most difficult taking into account all factors, you could probably argue in some order (this is my order): The 4 in the Chicago Basin (from Purgatory), LB/Blanca/Ellingwood Pt (LB from west ridge direct), El D/Mt Wilson/Wilson Peak, Bells traverse, Snowmass, Crestones Traverse (via CC), then Capitol
Mount Waddington?
never heard of this but looked it up. Mountaineering isn't really my thing
How do you hike this much? You must be either unemployed or have the best PTO policy on earth
lol I hike every weekend pretty much, and am fortunate to travel all over and I fit in hikes wherever I am. I took 5 days vacation for this CO trip which was my first PTO of this year so far
@@HikingEngineer Sounds like a very unusual schedule, but cool. How long did it take you to do all the 14ers?