Ellingwood Ledges (Crestone Needle)
| Ellingwood Arete | |
|---|---|
| Ellingwood Route or Ellingwood Arete | |
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Crestone Needle, with the lower south colony lake in the foreground. The Ellingwood Ledges climb the prominent arete. | |
| Location | Crestone Needle, Colorado, USA |
| Coordinates | 37°57′53″N 105°34′34″W / 37.96470°N 105.5761°W |
| Climbing Area | Sangre de Cristo Range, Rocky Mountains |
| Route Type | Trad/Alpine |
| Rating | 5.7 |
| Grade | III |
| First ascent | Albert R. Ellingwood, 1925. |
The Ellingwood Arete (also known as Ellingwood Route or Ellingwood Ledges or some combination thereof) is a popular technical climbing route on Crestone Needle in Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Range. The Ellingwood Ledges Route is recognized in the historic climbing text Fifty Classic Climbs of North America.[1][2] An "arete" is "a sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains".[3]
Albert R. Ellingwood was a pioneering member of the Colorado Mountain Club and the first to climb the Crestones[4]
The route is technically difficult, and the site of multiple climbing fatalities.[5]
References
- ↑ Roper, Steve; Steck, Allen (1979). Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. ISBN 0-87156-292-8.
- ↑ Louis W. Dawson II, Dawson's Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners, Volume 2, Blue Clover Press, 1999, ISBN 0-9628867-2-6, Route 2.1.4.
- ↑ definition WordNet Search - 3.0
- ↑ "Information Entries for Blanca Peak" note based on reliable sources by "14erFred" on 14ers.com
- ↑ "Plano mountaineers fall to their deaths in Colorado" article by Matthew Haag in The Dallas Morning News August 3, 2010, accessed September 24, 2010
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