Route: North Face Couloir
Team: Ted, Dirk Bockelmann
You can have a great day in Montezuma Basin in October. Dirk and I were headed out on a climbing trip to Ecuador in a week or so we wanted some time up high. A bluebird day with easy skiing snow awaited us.
After skiing a lap in the upper bowl, we retraced our steps up, all the way to the Castle/Conundrum saddle, to the summit of Castle Peak. From there we skied down the North Couloir.
Montezuma Basin doesn’t get much better than this.
On the summit. A ski descent of the Northeast Ridge of Mount Sheridan, 13,748 ft.
Dennis Scholl and I made it to the top of the 14,018 foot peak, the first time for the Miami based art collector, winemaker, philanthropist and Colorado peak bagger
Aside the summit block- the snow began just behind, some rock-hopping was required. A redo on Mount Evans after an earlier botched attempt on a different route.
We met in Aspen in 2000 and have been happily stuck in the rockies ever since, getting out in the mountains every day we can, in every season and by all means possible. Read More
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