"Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it."
--Ernest Hemingway
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Mumbly_Joe - Jul 6, 2020 2:01 pm Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2020
Sangres grand tourThis was day two on a grand tour of the Sangres near Blanca. My son asked for a rappel into the Gash but otherwise soloed. I was injured near the summit when a large block detached and hit me.
DougHemken - Jun 12, 2012 8:28 am Date Climbed: Jun 6, 2012
Long dayGreat 4th class route! I thought the Gash was unusual in that the best line almost always stayed right on the ridge - the best, solid rock seemed to be right on the crest the whole way.
We carried a rope but never broke it out. We found two rap stations, one to return to the Huerfano-Winchell gap (fairly new) and one to get into the final Gash going up (two pitons, old and faded perlon, we down-climbed around it).
The hardest part of the day was getting off Blanca and back to the Huerfano. We went down the south ridge of Blanca about 7/10 of a mile to a point where there was some shattered red rock on the ridgeline, then headed toward the N Winchell Lake. The descent involved loose, open ledges and a small 3rd class move to a pinnacle (on a line between the lakes), then down a snowy N facing coulior. Finally we hiked around the lake, back to the gap where the Gash started, and on back to the Huerfano trailhead.
Brad Snider - Jun 27, 2011 2:34 pm Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2011
Fun climb...... when the rock is dry. Wouldn't want to do it in wet conditions. Plenty of scrambling along the ridge, maybe just a couple of 5.0 moves. Mix of solid and loose rock, decent exposure. Gash itself was anticlimactic IMO.