MOUNT BROSS 8/3/84
MOUNT BROSS 14,172'
Mountain........Mount Bross
Elevation.........14,172
Rank...............22nd
Range..............Mosquito
Trail length......1.5 miles from Lincoln via Cameron
Elevation gain..400'(from Cameron saddle)
Difficulty..........*
Comments........This is a fourteener?
TRIP REPORT
8/3/84
From Mt. Lincoln, Richard and I zipped back over to Cameron, then did the easy one mile down and up (mostly on roads!) over to Mt. Bross. There appeared to be a working mine at 14,000', which explained why the roads were well-maintained. Bross had a broad summit with a large summit cairn that doubled as a much-needed windbreak.
We huddled behind it and ate lunch, then dropped straight off the summit down a scree gully back toward Kite Lake. There were a few short steep pitches, but mostly we just skidded down on our heels.
We reached the broad meadow above Kite Lake at 11:00 and took a nap in the warm sun before hopping back in the car and driving to Denver. The next morning we flew home. We were now committed to climbing all the fourteeners (20 down, only 34 to go!), and planned to return to Colorado each year for a week or so until we were done.
TRIP REPORT
8/3/94
On the ten-year anniversary of my first climb I climbed Bross again with Chuck, a friend and guide from my Aconcagua adventure. No problems, just a good time. I ate his dust on the descent (the wind carried it directly into my face). We were staying in Fairplay - he spent the afternoon on the phone with a Sherpa planning a bike-hike-climb adventure up Shisha Pengma in the Himalayas later in the year. I was invited, at a reasonable price, but didn't have enough vacation time (they were planning on 4-6 weeks) to go.
Mountain........Mount Bross
Elevation.........14,172
Rank...............22nd
Range..............Mosquito
Trail length......1.5 miles from Lincoln via Cameron
Elevation gain..400'(from Cameron saddle)
Difficulty..........*
Comments........This is a fourteener?
TRIP REPORT
8/3/84
From Mt. Lincoln, Richard and I zipped back over to Cameron, then did the easy one mile down and up (mostly on roads!) over to Mt. Bross. There appeared to be a working mine at 14,000', which explained why the roads were well-maintained. Bross had a broad summit with a large summit cairn that doubled as a much-needed windbreak.
We huddled behind it and ate lunch, then dropped straight off the summit down a scree gully back toward Kite Lake. There were a few short steep pitches, but mostly we just skidded down on our heels.
We reached the broad meadow above Kite Lake at 11:00 and took a nap in the warm sun before hopping back in the car and driving to Denver. The next morning we flew home. We were now committed to climbing all the fourteeners (20 down, only 34 to go!), and planned to return to Colorado each year for a week or so until we were done.
TRIP REPORT
8/3/94
On the ten-year anniversary of my first climb I climbed Bross again with Chuck, a friend and guide from my Aconcagua adventure. No problems, just a good time. I ate his dust on the descent (the wind carried it directly into my face). We were staying in Fairplay - he spent the afternoon on the phone with a Sherpa planning a bike-hike-climb adventure up Shisha Pengma in the Himalayas later in the year. I was invited, at a reasonable price, but didn't have enough vacation time (they were planning on 4-6 weeks) to go.
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