I built a snowcave since I was too lazy to carry up a tent.

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Audubon Feb 2007 - With applying for (and not getting) a spot as a member of a Rotary Group Study Exchange program to South Africa and preparing for my upcoming trip to Washington, D.C., I've been busy. I did manage to get away for the weekend 10 days ago on the final field trip for this year's Colorado Mountain Club (CMC) Advanced Mountaineering School (AMS).
Robert, Bruce, and John planned the climb. As instructor and assistant instructor, respectively, James and I were supposed to make sure no one did anything stupid. I asked Tom, the school director, if that included things like wandering around in the winter and camping in the snow. He said, "no, stupid things result in someone returning from the trip on a stretcher." Given that criteria I succeeded in my assistant instructor role fabulously.
The plan was to walk up toward treeline on Saturday, set up camp in a sheltered spot, scout the beginning of the route for the following morning, get up early the next morning and take (more or less) the standard east slope route to the summit. The plan was executed flawlessly. From the summit we had the option to continue along the ridge to Paiute. 80 mph winds on the Divide dissuaded us. Instead we tied a good-sized rock to our climbing rope and flew it like a kite. I tried to get photos, but my fingers were numb.
So now I'm 1 out of 2 for AMS peak climbs. Our group didn't make the summit when I took AMS ~5 years ago. However, the climber that I shared a tent with for our AMS peak climb went on to summit Everest. How many people can claim that?!

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Audubon Feb 2007 - With applying for (and not getting) a spot as a member of a Rotary Group Study Exchange program to South Africa and preparing for my upcoming trip to Washington, D.C., I've been busy. I did manage to get away for the weekend 10 days ago on the final field trip for this year's Colorado Mountain Club (CMC) Advanced Mountaineering School (AMS).
Robert, Bruce, and John planned the climb. As instructor and assistant instructor, respectively, James and I were supposed to make sure no one did anything stupid. I asked Tom, the school director, if that included things like wandering around in the winter and camping in the snow. He said, "no, stupid things result in someone returning from the trip on a stretcher." Given that criteria I succeeded in my assistant instructor role fabulously.
The plan was to walk up toward treeline on Saturday, set up camp in a sheltered spot, scout the beginning of the route for the following morning, get up early the next morning and take (more or less) the standard east slope route to the summit. The plan was executed flawlessly. From the summit we had the option to continue along the ridge to Paiute. 80 mph winds on the Divide dissuaded us. Instead we tied a good-sized rock to our climbing rope and flew it like a kite. I tried to get photos, but my fingers were numb.
So now I'm 1 out of 2 for AMS peak climbs. Our group didn't make the summit when I took AMS ~5 years ago. However, the climber that I shared a tent with for our AMS peak climb went on to summit Everest. How many people can claim that?!

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Audubon Feb 2007 - With applying for (and not getting) a spot as a member of a Rotary Group Study Exchange program to South Africa and preparing for my upcoming trip to Washington, D.C., I've been busy. I did manage to get away for the weekend 10 days ago on the final field trip for this year's Colorado Mountain Club (CMC) Advanced Mountaineering School (AMS).
Robert, Bruce, and John planned the climb. As instructor and assistant instructor, respectively, James and I were supposed to make sure no one did anything stupid. I asked Tom, the school director, if that included things like wandering around in the winter and camping in the snow. He said, "no, stupid things result in someone returning from the trip on a stretcher." Given that criteria I succeeded in my assistant instructor role fabulously.
The plan was to walk up toward treeline on Saturday, set up camp in a sheltered spot, scout the beginning of the route for the following morning, get up early the next morning and take (more or less) the standard east slope route to the summit. The plan was executed flawlessly. From the summit we had the option to continue along the ridge to Paiute. 80 mph winds on the Divide dissuaded us. Instead we tied a good-sized rock to our climbing rope and flew it like a kite. I tried to get photos, but my fingers were numb.
So now I'm 1 out of 2 for AMS peak climbs. Our group didn't make the summit when I took AMS ~5 years ago. However, the climber that I shared a tent with for our AMS peak climb went on to summit Everest. How many people can claim that?!

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This wasn't the first day that the wind has blown from the west here.

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Audubon Feb 2007 - With applying for (and not getting) a spot as a member of a Rotary Group Study Exchange program to South Africa and preparing for my upcoming trip to Washington, D.C., I've been busy. I did manage to get away for the weekend 10 days ago on the final field trip for this year's Colorado Mountain Club (CMC) Advanced Mountaineering School (AMS).
Robert, Bruce, and John planned the climb. As instructor and assistant instructor, respectively, James and I were supposed to make sure no one did anything stupid. I asked Tom, the school director, if that included things like wandering around in the winter and camping in the snow. He said, "no, stupid things result in someone returning from the trip on a stretcher." Given that criteria I succeeded in my assistant instructor role fabulously.
The plan was to walk up toward treeline on Saturday, set up camp in a sheltered spot, scout the beginning of the route for the following morning, get up early the next morning and take (more or less) the standard east slope route to the summit. The plan was executed flawlessly. From the summit we had the option to continue along the ridge to Paiute. 80 mph winds on the Divide dissuaded us. Instead we tied a good-sized rock to our climbing rope and flew it like a kite. I tried to get photos, but my fingers were numb.
So now I'm 1 out of 2 for AMS peak climbs. Our group didn't make the summit when I took AMS ~5 years ago. However, the climber that I shared a tent with for our AMS peak climb went on to summit Everest. How many people can claim that?!

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Just below Navajo Mountain in the photo is the class 4 notch on the SE ridge of Audubon. I've come up that ridge a couple times when I've biked up from Boulder. The notch is very well-hidden from the route itself. The view from here, however, is great, and the notch looks a bit improbable.

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Audubon Feb 2007 - With applying for (and not getting) a spot as a member of a Rotary Group Study Exchange program to South Africa and preparing for my upcoming trip to Washington, D.C., I've been busy. I did manage to get away for the weekend 10 days ago on the final field trip for this year's Colorado Mountain Club (CMC) Advanced Mountaineering School (AMS).
Robert, Bruce, and John planned the climb. As instructor and assistant instructor, respectively, James and I were supposed to make sure no one did anything stupid. I asked Tom, the school director, if that included things like wandering around in the winter and camping in the snow. He said, "no, stupid things result in someone returning from the trip on a stretcher." Given that criteria I succeeded in my assistant instructor role fabulously.
The plan was to walk up toward treeline on Saturday, set up camp in a sheltered spot, scout the beginning of the route for the following morning, get up early the next morning and take (more or less) the standard east slope route to the summit. The plan was executed flawlessly. From the summit we had the option to continue along the ridge to Paiute. 80 mph winds on the Divide dissuaded us. Instead we tied a good-sized rock to our climbing rope and flew it like a kite. I tried to get photos, but my fingers were numb.
So now I'm 1 out of 2 for AMS peak climbs. Our group didn't make the summit when I took AMS ~5 years ago. However, the climber that I shared a tent with for our AMS peak climb went on to summit Everest. How many people can claim that?!

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