Beau Jeanmard completes Clear Creek County ranked peaks!

by **lukePlumley** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:48 am

Congratulations Beau!

Did you finish on Silver Plume? Any trouble with that summit move?
You are now in fine company on this completion list!

lp

by **John Kirk** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 10:49 am

Welcome to the club Beau!

by **John Kirk** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:01 pm

I built this to show county completions/progress since some of us fall through the cracks:
http://www.listsofjohn.com/PeakStats/cc.php

So far, the completers this year:
Colorado:

Baca County (1 summit):
SteveMartin 2009-03-05
mikeofferman 2009-03-05

Clear Creek County (63 summits):
beaujeanmard 2009-07-21

Douglas County (27 summits):
Steve Knapp 2009-05-16

El Paso County (37 summits):
DHatfield 2009-03-15

Lake County (47 summits):
John Kirk 2009-06-20

Prowers County (1 summit):
Steve Knapp 2009-04-15
SteveMartin 2009-03-05
mikeofferman 2009-03-05

Larimer County (255 summits):
SteveMartin 2009-07-21

Nevada:

Carson City County (16 summits):
Al Sandorff 2009-05-06

by **lukePlumley** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:13 pm

John,

That link is great. Looks like your Lake County completion fell through the cracks. Congratulations to you too!

lp

by **John Kirk** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:26 pm

Looks like Mike Offerman will be finishing Larimer pretty soon. I've been thinking about Sharkstooth a lot lately myself...

by **lukePlumley** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:29 pm

Ah, the Sharkstooth. That is an excellent climb. You will definitely enjoy it, John. Mike and Steve should be hitting it very soon.

by **mikeofferman** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:00 pm

Hopefully Larimer will have its second completion this year ;->

John, would you like to team up to climb Sharkstooth?

by **lukePlumley** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:05 pm

Wow, I missed the other completion of note yesterday! Congratulations Steve Martin as being the first ever to complete the neverending ranked peaks of Larimer County! You guys must be crazy..... :roll:

But #3 should come this calendar year as well!

by **John Kirk** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:05 pm

mikeofferman wrote:Hopefully Larimer will have its second completion this year ;->

John, would you like to team up to climb Sharkstooth?

I would - question is timing. A weekday is probably best safety-wise if before September (I'd only consider the East Gully at this point and rockfall could be a problem with parties descending from the other route). Kirk Mallory is looking to get this one as well, and maybe Tim depending on where he is at the time. Are you OK waiting until Sept? If you want it sooner than later I can see about a weekday this month or early Aug, even if it ends up being only two of us.

by **John Kirk** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:06 pm

lukePlumley wrote:Wow, I missed the other completion of note yesterday!

Must have just logged it a couple hours ago - it wasn't in the list earlier.

by **Steve Knapp** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:16 pm

Cheers to this one Beau! I'm glad I got to climb some of these with you. You beat me to it, just 15 to go for me in Clear Creek and hopefully I'll do it too by the end of the year.

John, very cool link!

by **MikeRodenak** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:04 pm

Way to go Beau! You are in some elite company there!

I may join that club one of these days, seeing as Steve dragged me (OK it was mutual dragging...) up Red Mtn's choss already :-D

Thanks for the new tool John, its cool to see the county progress all in one place like that, Nice work as always!

by **beau jeanmard** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:01 pm

Thanks guys, it was a long time coming. I started off with Grays and Torreys and trying to do all the 13'ers on the Grays and Loveland Quads back in the late 90's. It wasn't until late '08 that I noticed that I was more than halfway finished and decided to try to get it done in a few months. I started on some of the lower peaks in November before the really big snows came. I managed to get quite a few done like Douglas Mountain and Ute BM , Saxon Mountain. Santa Fe was a really nice peak featuring a nice long winding ridge through the forest. I had a tough time finding the summit in that thick forest. It wasn't until I saw a jar in the rocks on one of the points that I knew I had it for sure. First name I saw on the notepad was Luke Plumley. I think one of those Clear Creekers was his 500th peak!
After the spring thaw, I got Steve Knapp to do some with me around Georgetown. We really enjoyed the slog between Alpine and Griffin! Silver Plume was really a nice little peak punctuated by a big rock. It took me 10 minutes to climb up. I circled around many times before deciding on the eastside of the rock. I didn't like the prospect of doing a mantle move to get on top fearing that I would fall in between the boulders and break my leg. Finally, I just leaned a post up against the rock and climbed up in less than 10 seconds and summited at 4:04 pm 7/21/09, almost exactly 14 years to the day of topping out on Grays and Torreys!
I don't know if I really have a favorite peak, but some of these climbs really give you some different views of the more famous neighbors including Apache and Navajo, Powell and Eagle's Nest and the Ripsaw Ridge and the rest of the Gores. The Williams Fork Mountains have some very interesting valleys to the west that look worthwhile to explore. A handfull of really nice CD loops exist here in the county including Geneva Basin and Fall River Res Basin and Jones Pass area to Stanley or even to Berthod Pass.
Clear Creek has something for everyone!

by **beau jeanmard** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:11 pm

Mike,

Just keep pluggin away, you'll get there eventually! Just check out Steve knapps super hikes and you will be finished in no time!

Beau Jeanmard completes Clear Creek County ranked peaks!

Beau Jeanmard completes Clear Creek County ranked peaks!

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