TR: Mt. Meeker • East Face • RMNP, CO • May 4, 2013

[pappag]

Been a while since I've been up in the mountains, and was itching for some high alpine turns last weekend. The emails started floating around and somehow we bypassed a myriad of easier options for the beast that is known as Mt. Meeker.

Skiers:
PappaG
BurnHard
Fritz

Starting elevation: 8,700'
Summit: 13,911'
Ending elevation: 12,700' (4,000' gain)
Time up: 4.5 hours (left Horse Creek TH at 530am)
Time out: 3.5 hours through slog central (130pm return)
Ski descent: 2,500'

Topo:
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5924857




Route up:





Indian Peaks to the south:













Skintrack stoke:





Mt. Meeker in the clouds with visible parts of Dragon's Egg Couloir off the south face:





A few rare smiles were had:







Route down:





Fritz makes the snow look good (it was punchy as fuck with a death combination of wind, rain, and sun crust):





Burnhard and Fritz discuss the exit strategy:





Shitty snow looking mistakenly decent:






The end.





To note, we caught an amazing morning with zero wind and no clouds. Going in, we knew a complete summit descent would take 10 hours RT. Pushing near 10am, weather and clouds starting rolling through causing us to descend 1,200' short of the summit. To our dismay, the snow never softened up and ultimately, I would have chosen a day on sastrugi over the snow we dealt with. As for the slog out, it was quite a death march of a traverse as we circumvented 3 ridgelines. Hindsight tells us that the south face would have been the better line choice, but as BurnHard said afterward, "I'll remember today as the day we skied Meeker." Nothing more, nothing less.

[smmokan]

I'm pretty sure I saw your helmet descending from my front porch last weekend.

Nice TR, sucks about the snow conditions.

[MakersTeleMark]

Sucks about the conditions, but hats off on the slog. I've climbed dreamweaver a couple of times, but have never been on that aspect.

[~mikey b]

snow was shitty but at least the skiing sucked

[powdork]

mountains are like women. take them half the way there and they'll make you pay.

after a lifetime of taking them half the way there i should know. ;-)

[SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU FUCKING MORON!]

Starting elevation: 8,700'
Summit: 13,911'
Ending elevation: 12,700' (4,000' gain)
Time up: 4.5 hours (left Horse Creek TH at 530am)
Time out: 3.5 hours through slog central (130pm return)
Ski descent: 2,500'

Topo:
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5924857

Wow. Another fucking Beater from Colorado spraying about how fucking rad they think they are. Cause there's none of those in TGR.


Starting Elevation: FUCK YOU!
Summit: YOUR MOTHER SUCKS COCKS IN HELL!
Ending Elevation: SHUT THE FUCK UP
Ski Descent: YOU FUCKING MORON!

[smitchell333]

Meeker is a classic

'looks good from far, but far from good'

for snow conditions.

[spankthepow]

Nice work guys!

[cycology1]

Wow. Another fucking Beater from Colorado spraying about how fucking rad they think they are. Cause there's none of those in TGR.


Starting Elevation: FUCK YOU!
Summit: YOUR MOTHER SUCKS COCKS IN HELL!
Ending Elevation: SHUT THE FUCK UP
Ski Descent: YOU FUCKING MORON!

Sweet STFUYFM, ur trolling or super bad arse and can't be bothered with this level of tour? Obviously a jong here since I haven't posted thousands of irrelevant posts, but u know what they say...

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[powdork]

Sweet STFUYFM, ur trolling or super bad arse and can't be bothered with this level of tour? Obviously a jong here since I haven't posted thousands of irrelevant posts, but u know what they say...

seems to me this level of tour DID bother him some.

[soylent green]

Starting Elevation: FUCK YOU!
Summit: YOUR MOTHER SUCKS COCKS IN HELL!

Great post! Probably the first time The Exorcist has been quoated on TGR.

[pappag]

^^^^ (artist formerly known as iskibc) got to ski with Davenport on Meeker on Saturday. Here's their writeup ... I guess Dav is a jong Colorado turd for putting up the topo map of the route as well. /shrugs


http://centennialskiers.com/2013/05/...n-egg-couloir/

[Mike_Records]

Looks like quite the slog, my feet hurt just reading about it! Hopefully all of the losers on here who don't ski and just hang out on the internet griping about those who choose to share the joy of their experiences with others will leave/grow up/contribute.

[bobsdesk]

I gotta say props for posting the beta and be willing to put in that effort. Here's to huge days over skiing the same "boring" shit like I do all spring...

[rmnpsplitter]

I was gonna ask why you guys didn't go the loft route up. Leave a car at wild basin trailhead, and shuttle back to longs peak trailhead. Props though for that slog! I'm jealous looking at the pics. Sure beats the past week I've had taking care of the wife. A bad day of skiing in rmnp is better than a hell of a lot of other things you could be doing.
Pics into wild basin are awesome! There is so much potential back there.