"Didn't summit bross bc of private property. Signed the waiver but still didn't feel comfortable summiting. Started with bross and went to democrat. Great views & sunrise, quicker than expected to finish. " — lizzieamancio • Jul 29, 2025

"7/13/2025 *I'm pretty sure this ended up being 13.8 miles, but a mile was stolen from me. We all know not to use AllTrails for routes, I guess it's not the way to go if you care about tracking your stats either. Had a great day on Elbert today with my good friend, saw some amazing wildlife and made a few new friends on the way down. We rolled into the North Elbert Trail trailhead around 04:30 after jumping someone's car on Halfmoon rd, which would give us some good karma through the day. The parking lot started to fill up after we got there but it seemed like there was a decent amount of room to park at the trailhead. After cooking up some breakfast tacos on my griddle and almost booting it back up after passing the outhouse at the trailhead (I cant say I've smelled much worse and I didn't even go in) we started the climb with first light at 05:30 since we had forgotten our headlamps. Oops. We watched the sun rise through the trees and burn off the clouds for the first 2.5 miles or so, giving us an absolutely beautiful bluebird sky. The trail to treeline was pretty relaxed besides a couple of staircase sections, but staircases wear me out so maybe I'm a little biased. We mad..." — Trusey • Jul 13, 2025

"Amazing day in the San Juans. Started from Rock of Ages and went for the traverse first. Soloed El Diente's north buttress and met two guys at the summit who I teamed up with for the traverse. Clouds moved in on final pitch of Wilson followed by hail in just a matter of minutes. Had to descend the now iced over crux move as we heard rocks crackle around us. Parted ways in navajo basin and reclimbed rock of ages saddle. Thunder storms came in more earnestly so I waited 90 minutes before weather cleared to go for wilson peak. Over 15 hours car to car." — cheeseishappiness • Jul 22, 2022

"Amazing day in the San Juans. Started from Rock of Ages and went for the traverse first. Soloed El Diente's north buttress and met two guys at the summit who I teamed up with for the traverse. Clouds moved in on final pitch of Wilson followed by hail in just a matter of minutes. Had to descend the now iced over crux move as we heard rocks crackle around us. Parted ways in navajo basin and reclimbed rock of ages saddle. Thunder storms came in more earnestly so I waited 90 minutes before weather cleared to go for wilson peak. Over 15 hours car to car." — cheeseishappiness • Jul 22, 2022

"Awesome backpacking trip via Cottonwood Creek. Route is tedious but manageable with several short sections of willow whacking and wet groves. Camped at 10800' and took cover just before multiple spouts of hail came roaring in. Next morning on the ascent took a wrong turn at 11,100'-a right turn across a stream takes you up the wrong valley. Noticed about a half mile in, turned back, noticed I had dropped my phone, turned back again to find it. Continue straight from the unmarked junction to continue up to Cottonwood Lake. Red gulley is in great shape. Small snow patches still melting out creating wet slabs below, but water is either avoidable or traversable on the grippy crestone conglomerate. https://youtu.be/YCKHyon-cmI" — cheeseishappiness • Jul 4, 2022