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Ascent of Longs Peak on 1999-07-17

Climber: Joe Lavelle

Date:

Saturday, July 17, 1999

Ascent Type:

Successful Summit Attained

Peak:

Longs Peak

Location:

USA-Colorado

Elevation:

14255 ft / 4344 m

Ascent Trip Report

I love Longs Peak, and one of my unofficial missions is to climb a different route/season combination nearly every time I reach for the summit.Next on the list was to reclimb the route used by the Stettner brothers (Joe & Paul) to climb Longs Peak on September 14, 1927, including the Stettner’s Ledges (5.8) route to climb from Mills Glacier to Broadway Ledge. As they did, we’d also use the Kiener’s Route (5.3) to skirt the difficulties of the Diamond and reach the summit. Stettner’s Ledges represented the hardest multi-pitch alpine route in Colorado (and perhaps in North America) for the subsequent 20 years.

Link to 'The Long Way Up Longs Peak' trip report

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