Mt Richthofen and Static Peak
11 Sep 2000 - by Jim Ippolito
Saturday morning Steve Blecker and I climbed Mt. Richthofen and Static
Peak on the Northwest boundary of Rocky Mountain National Park. We
camped overnight at the Crags Campground just west of Cameron Pass on
highway 14. We began hiking towards Lake Agnes about 6am, scrambling up
the class 2 (maybe 2+ nearer the summit) slopes of Richthofen, and
summitted about 8:45am under very windy conditions. We spent 15 minutes
on the summit, hunkered down behind the wind break. We then decended
northward towards Static Peak; the climbing was easy class 2. We
summited at 9:30am and spent an additional 15 minutes on the summit
refueling for the climb downwards. We decended the east ridge,
described in (I think) one of Roach's books as a knife-edge. The edge
wasn't a perfect knife-edge, but the dropoffs were certainly lofty on
both sides. Definitely rated class 3. We decended to the low point of
the east ridge, and then turned northward and descended the rest of the
ridge downward to Michigan lakes. We ended up hiking out and around the
northern most base of the Nohku Crags and back to the Crags campground
by 12:15pm. A great loophike with some lofty views of the northern
portion of RMNP.
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