CRESTONE CENTENNIAL CIRCUIT
Eli Watson
2020-09-03 Thursday
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Summits, Route Overview, and Splits:
Mt Adams A (13,931’) Northeast Ridge from Horn Creek Trailhead - 8:21 AM (3:38)
Challenger Pt (14,081’) North Slope from Willow Creek - 11:47 AM (3:26)
“The Prow” (13,980’) via Kit Carson Avenue - 12:02 PM (0:15)
Kit Carson Pk (14,165’) via Kit Carson Avenue - 12:23 PM (0:21)
Columbia Pt (13,980’) via Kit Carson Avenue - 1:06 PM (0:43)
“Kitty Kat Carson” (13,980’) from Columbia Pt - 1:13 PM (0:07)
“Obstruction Pk” (13,799’) from "Kitty Kat Carson" - 1:55 PM (0:42)
“Northeast Crestone” (14,250’) via North Buttress from Bears Playground - 4:32 PM (2:37)
“East Crestone” (14,260’) via Crestone Pk "Red Gully" - 4:56 PM (0:24)
Crestone Pk (14,294’) via "Red Gully" - 5:18 PM (0:22)
Crestone Needle (14,197’) via Crestone Traverse - 7:15 PM (1:57)
Humboldt Pk (14,064’) West Ridge from South Colony Lakes - 11:36 PM (4:24)
Start: 4:43:57 AM, Thursday
Finish: 5:26:17 AM, Friday
The full report of this First Ascent FKT can be read at the below links. The report was split into two parts, as there were too many summits for a single report on 14ers.com.
(Part I) https://www.14ers.com/php14ers/tripreport.php?trip=20658
(Part II) https://www.14ers.com/php14ers/tripreport.php?trip=20659
I completed this route solo, beginning from the Horn Creek Trailhead at 4:43:57 AM on Thursday, 2020-09-03. I returned to this same trailhead at 5:26:17 AM Friday, 2020-09-04. My official Strava track recorded without stopping clocked my officially recorded time as 24 hr 41 m 51 s. The approx. 30 s discrepancy can be accounted for in the extra time it took me to take a photograph of my watch.
I would like to thank those who wrote excellent Trip Reports detailing the bulk of this route before me, an experienced climber who had previously sectioned all of this route with the exception of Humboldt to the Rainbow Trail and initially proposed this route to me, my crew-of-one Alex who waited for me at the Horn Creek Trailhead with chocolate milk and pizza, and the 14ers.com site for hosting my Trip Reports.