Climbing Little Bear Peak - Colorado 14ers

This video contains POV footage of the infamous hourglass gully along with a general route description to the summit of Little Bear Peak in Colorado. Footage captured during my climb on 4 Sep 2023.
At 14,036' elevation this is one of the lowest of the Colorado 14ers, but its loose and treacherous route puts it among the most difficult 14,000' peaks in the state.
Apologies for any difficulty hearing in the wind! As always I'd love to hear any feedback on how I could improve these videos. Thanks for watching!

[@DavidGarber-s5g]

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[@SandDunesGuy]

Nice job thanks, the weather report would be life or death.

[@zachariahleslie6337]

Most informative video ive seen

[@MotoNomad350]

Nice representative video. When I climbed it, there was a party ahead of us raining rocks down the hourglass. My partner and I waited 2.5 hours at the hourglass for that party to summit and return before we ascended. Wasn’t worth the risk.

[@diana.goes.hiking3276]

Finally a good view of what it is really like. Thank you!

[@wonyakomenuras1247]

Great video, thank you~!

[@Darth_Man_X]

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[@dancer2]

you find cap or bear more challenging

[@RubberDuckyTheOne]

Honestly, it's hard to say- their challenges are different so you'll perceive difficulty differently based on your own strengths and weaknesses. Capitol's difficulties are exposure and route-finding, both of which I found to be quite significant factors. Can't stress the pucker factor of the exposure enough. It has lots of loose rock as well, which shouldn't be taken lightly; it's got several pitches of class 4 rock and sustained technical pitches. That said, Little Bear's class 4 was overall more difficult and sustained than Capitol IMO- hand/foot holds in the hourglass were smaller, smoother, and steeper, where Capitol has lots of jagged edges to grab or step on. Little Bear has less exposure, certainly, but in addition to loose rock as you climb is the seriously real hazard of rocks falling from other climbers. In the hourglass, you're almost following the fall line as you climb. Where rockfall on Capitol is likely to tumble down hundreds of feet to the valley below, rockfall on LB's hourglass is much more likely to tumble into your path up the gully.
As a person wiser than me once said, difficulty is a combination of the route and conditions- both mountains were extremely rewarding to summit, but I wouldn't trade either for my own health and safety! Good luck on your own adventures 😁