My friend Scott and I drove to Aspen Early Saturday morning to scale Conundrum via the Conundrum Couloir route and board down. We hiked in 4 miles, and set up camp at 12,800 ft. Then we went boarding on the lower Montezuma snowfield. After a cold night we climbed back up the snowfield, scaled the couloir and toped out on the summit at 14,060 ft. Then boarded down all the way back to camp.
Hiking in
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Conundrum and Our boarding route
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Boarding route down and cutting hard
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Our Campsite
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Sunrise Sunday morning
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Me climbing up the Conundrum Couloir
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Scott following me up in the couloir
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Me on Conundrum's Summit at 14,060 ft with the Maroon Bells, Snowmass, Capitol and Pyramid in the background
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Me about to board down the top of the couloir. The top was so steep we had to self arrest down the first 50 feet of the near vertical wall
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Scott boarding down the couloir (see the huge cornice and vertical wall at the top)
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And a bunch more boarding pics
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Castle Peak from inside the couloir
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So what is worth more, the gear in the jeep or the jeep
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