Comments on: Where the Peaks Have No Names 5.9.09

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:39:55 +0000

Jed- We call that the Spider Face. Went up it last year, but ended up skiing down the “White Widow”, as we call the line on the S Face.

By: Jed

Jed — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:46:12 +0000

“A project to be solved another season” is the north face of PT13253. It’s a pretty sweet looking face.

By: Golden Tops North Face and Cassi Peak SW Couloir 6.5.11 – 14erskiers.com

Golden Tops North Face and Cassi Peak SW Couloir 6.5.11 – 14erskiers.com — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 02:47:16 +0000

[...] our sights on a couple of goals in the upper Rustler’s Gulch area. I had skied the aesthetic South Couloir of Golden Tops (UN 13,260′) a couple of years ago, and had been wanting to go back to ski the North side. Our plan also [...]

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:28:37 +0000

Thanks Tom!

Weird that Avery is marked on most maps when it really isn’t a separate peak, but a beautiful peak like Golden Tops isn’t marked at all. I vaguely remember someone saying “camel humps”, but it must have been years ago.

By: Tom Scoville

Tom Scoville — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:02:31 +0000

The twin peaks you climbed and skied down after descending the western Golden Top are called locally, but not on any map (as is true for “Golden Tops” also not with a map name just a local name), “Camels Humps”. Avery is the peak with the rotten rock face you showed in one of your photos from the Camels Humps summit or descent.

Re the comment from “Ted” above, Precarious is very clearly seen in the left side of Rustler’s Gulch, with Cassie Peak in the center of the head of Rustlers, and Golden Tops on the upper right part of Rustlers.

Thanks for the great photos and the report.

Tom Scoville

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:26:45 +0000

Cool, I’d like to see another angle on that one.

By: ted

ted — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:50:40 +0000

Frank- It’s a slightly different perspective than what I’m used to seeing but I think the peak on the far left is what I was talking about– kind of flat on the top, split by a big coulor, not sure which side is higher, almost has a Conundrum Peak feel to it. I’ll find a pic that shows it from where I usually see it.

ted

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 30 May 2009 23:23:04 +0000

Ted- I was looking at Brittany’s TR from N Maroon and noticed this photo:

The twin peaks in the center are UN 13,260′, which we skied on the other side in this TR. On the far left of the photo is Precarious, which appears to have some lines on looker’s left of the summit. Are either of those what you’ve been looking at?

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 13 May 2009 01:12:21 +0000

Yeah, send a photo if you get a chance. I didn’t see anything that looked promising on the Aspen side, but it was corniced, too, so we didn’t get to look off the edge everywhere.

By: ted

ted — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:29:27 +0000

So is Precarious what I was asking you about, or am I still way off? Maybe I’ll send a pic so you can see what I see from over here.
ted