Skiing La Plata's North Face // Colorado 14er
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- In todays adventure I ski La Plata's North Face for my last 14er ski descent of this season. I've been eyeing this face since last year and finally got to ski this beautiful line.
La Plata is Colorado's 5th highest peak at 14,343 feet and located in the heart of the Sawatch range. This day climb clocked in around 12 miles and 4400ft and I dropped down the north couloir at 9:15am where the snow conditions were pretty ideal.
For those wanting to ski this line be aware the exit from this line is a bit bushwhacky and I stayed very high on the shelf along the north ridge and found it straight forward. I followed the edge of tree line right back to the main trail.
Skied on 6/15/24
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Gear from this day:
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Glasses: Vallon Freshwater Revivals (vallon.com)
Skis Dynafit Blacklite 95: backcountry.tnu8.net/q43x0g
Scarpa F1 Boot: backcountry.tnu8.net/DKgeqb
Binding: Dynafit Superlite 150
Glasses: www.vallon.com/
BD Poles: amzn.to/4bBsdWy
Helmet: amzn.to/3wS1NAO
Crampons: amzn.to/3yNMIR9
Backpack: backcountry.tnu8.net/LXxEVj
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0:00 Intro
1:38 Climb
5:00 Summit
6:10 Skiing
8:22 Outro - Спорт
nice video, cool hike nice to see you on youtube
never knew you make videos
greeting from austria
Thanks Elias and hope all is well
Awesome ... nice long run!
Thanks and hard to beat the length for the middle of June
Plenty of snow. You really from sun valley?
Was happy to see it!
You know it. Born and raised in Sun Valley area
Jake, quick question. I saw your videos re:Chamonix, 3 days. I snagged a frequent flier trip to Geneva for mid August. I've tentatively scheduled a week in Chamonix and a week in Zermatt. In view of the recent flooding in the Valais, I'm thinking now about spending the entire 2 weeks day hiking around Mont Blanc. You've spent time doing day hikes, what do you think? Too much time in one region or go with the full 2 weeks out of Chamonix?
Thanks!
And, keep the videos coming!
Hey thanks for watching the videos and honestly there is so much to explore in Chamonix if the flooding (which I am clueless on) makes travel in and around Switzerland difficult think you could for sure spend 2 weeks exploring the area. I would make sure to move around a bit to keep it interesting but know from my last trip I had a ton of hikes and things I never got to do based on very limited time. Also if actually circumnavigating Blanc you get a little bit of the different cultural experiences from the different counties and think this would help keep things interesting
With that said I've never been to Zermatt and if travel if flooding damage is cleared up by August think a week in each place would be awesome and would love to do this on my trip to the area.
In my opinion this whole area of the alps is a mountain paradise and you'll have a great trip either way
I hope that helps and have a great trip. I'm jealous and need to plan a return trip and actually climb Blanc this time
Thanks for the quick feedback. Hope to spend time around the Grande Jorasses and les Drus. They look incredible. Maybe a hike to refuge Leschaux. Like you said, Chamonix has a lot to offer.
Have a great CO summer!
No worries and have a great trip! Few random spots I scoped out but never got to were Dômes de Miage and Mont Buet for views of the Blanc Massif from afar.