Set of 8: Mountain Climbing Longs Peak

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Shelter House GREAT PRECIP CE LONGS PEAK ON THE CABLE LONGS PEAK LONGS KEY HOLE CABLE freich ONGS PE INARR Tex Hole

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3. This is F. THERANCE out shetter PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE OUTDOORS Quilt OUESTES PARK Collas this summer about the middle of the Boulder field. This picture shows the North side of the peaks and climbing this side is hazardous. One must licensed guiste to very have try it. The X in the margin shows the point at which مستهم بفستا N D the next pikture, was taken; going up we have. to go to this spot, and it is a thriller. To go from the casin to the top off the plak this way is one tmile, almost in a straight line. FRANCIS Heis was PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE OUTDOORS that tell picts 4. This pag! ARTErs as LETES BABY BOLO Sheer sheet of perpendi- cular rock rising 1500 pt. above you and 25 00et, at your services, Sourcety below you. I can't tea / you how standing here makes one feel, but I think I shall remember it always. Our quide was W'n Ware - 18 yrs. old Lives in Denver, and the was perfection itself. He never took his precarious plats: or eyes in taken مسٹر 0 5. This cable is a 24-ply PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE OUTROor held close to the rock surface, ww their so climbers can hands to get over some of the flat, almost vertical rock faces. One's feet don't function much In some of these rocks. This cont faggerated, at all. The total length of cable, is 250 st, the rest of it we lid without cables. Was I scared?- once or сев twice, yes I't a tremendous chattinge to your courage 10 as as your clutch, I think. lise ENCE · 6. When you're cable holdin the and twent to the right you get this pies. The little dark rock above the If in the margin, projection directly is the rock overhanging the " "Reghole good pic- twee of which, is in this group. The line of small- Plooking boulders, leading but up to its is another traill, which his much safer, hat two miles long. Those bou- all as bignar bigger than a wash thoiler- Some many unie yards. cubic Truefin d HO sing nd чана believe, when looking at them here. 7. This is another point on the cable, and tells its own story. The quide told us that climbing in ice was much simpler thon without the ice because one can chop steps with an ice ax, butt, flat granite offers Si no Surg. 6 1727 found no snow in the particy- la place. going up way tooks us about two hours may be more. Going точе the other way requivvred much mor time. ON SALE SHOULD BE THE SON 3 8. I have no pictures of the roup. The top lis one manu; та colossal boulders, too, I. not quite plats but be enough get easy views – miles, miles, miles, and miles so we direction, without down in every falling mountain. We came ممد the West- slope trail and this is the top of that trail. Called the "Home stretch" for those - those who go up this way. Steep, but, at least, passable! Rugged, but not dangerous. 9. F. J. FRANCIS PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE OUTDOORS ESTES PARK. COLO. the west- Another place in slope trail. When we got down this far, guit was raining hard and trying to hail and know to supplement the effect of the rain. It did. We walked all the way back in this cold storm! Wet; wet to the skin except in- veryday fromay almost side of our boots. It raine that ever N D until night, the air freezing. the rocks adds greatly to the risks, as you would imagine. 我 10. The "keyhole is 2 mile J. FRANCIS PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE OUTDOORS from the ESTES PARK, COLO.yout shetter house in the Boulder field. It is 6'x 8', and the roof of the little moles shelter leaks. The Keyhole, is natural granite and is as far as the majority of Ccilubers ever are able to yo They really don't climb the peak at all, but not everyon can do it without risking -their lives on account retitude or loving their balance. Many persons. have frozen to death; or fallen off the shelves, or otherwise perished on: this Peak, I awes me. STAMP