Ellingwood Ledges (Crestone Needle)

Ellingwood Arete
Ellingwood Route or Ellingwood Arete

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 / 37.96470; -105.5761
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

  1. Roper, Steve; Steck, Allen (1979). Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. ISBN 0-87156-292-8.
  2. 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.
  3. definition WordNet Search - 3.0
  4. "Information Entries for Blanca Peak" note based on reliable sources by "14erFred" on 14ers.com
  5. "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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