Culebra & Red
Culebra - Northwest Ridge - Class 2
Red - Northwest Ridge - Class 2
Culebra is actually a pretty cool mountain. Its just the pay to hike factor that leaves a bad taste. That said the folks at Cielo Vista Ranch made it pretty easy to schedule. We climbed both Culebra and Red via Culebra's Northwest Ridge. We covered 6.7 miles and 3800 vertical in 5 hours.
Partners: Kristi Henes, Mike Poland, Chip Logan, Jim L, Dave Lavine
Here is a link for the GPX file from our trip.
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Culebra in the aplenglow
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The crew off to a leisurely start
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Kool carin with false summit in the distance... Culebra Peak was just a little further
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Little Bear and Blanca in the distance.
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Kristi close to Culebra's summit as the clouds roll in
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Happy Canada D'eh everyone!!!
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Kristi approaching Red Mountain
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Kristi close to the summit of Red. Culebra in the clouds behind her
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Summit of Red Mountain
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Kristi descends Culebra
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Alex on Culebra's west ridge
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Doing a little jig
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We glissaded the majority of the west slope
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Lumpy has skilz
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huh-oh
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Kristi finishing strong!
