Mt. Princeton Hike 9-1-12

ttora4runner

Expedition Leader
Just a couple of photo's from a short hiking trip this past Saturday up Mt. Princeton in Colorado

The road ahead and my destination
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The trail has mutiple starting points and I decided to park by the radio towers to start my hike up the road to the trail head
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Looking towards the east.
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On the trail.
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Mt. Princeton in the background.
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I swear there's a trail there somewhere. Which is true up to a point as the trail kind of disappears in one spot as you ascend up.
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Mt. Princeton
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Sad to see this. I know this is one of the worries of my family as I'm out and about that something like this will happen.
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View from around 14,200 ft.
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Looking back down at the trail I just came up.
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After getting back down to my vehicle and taking some time to relax and grab lunch I headed off to my destination Mt. Antero

Mt. Antero from the intersection of Mt. Antero Trail and Baldwin Lake
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Unfortunately, for me about this time I had started to feel the effects of altitude sickness. On the way down Mt. Princeton I probable lost my balance a dozen times in areas that you wouldn't and by the time I got here I had a headache and felt like I was going to vomit. So I packed up camp (I was planning to hike Mt. Antero the following day) and made a b-line back home.

I've attempted six 14'ers in the past month and made four of them. The two I missed were either due to weather and or sickness (ths past one). I'm planning a return trip to Antero sometime this month.
 
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Ratman1979

Observer
Funny, we climbed Mt. Princeton last year and after about 20 minutes driving down I had to pull over and let my wife drive because of my headache. Mt. Elbert two days later didn't cause any problems. Princeton must be cursed.
 

ttora4runner

Expedition Leader
Funny, we climbed Mt. Princeton last year and after about 20 minutes driving down I had to pull over and let my wife drive because of my headache. Mt. Elbert two days later didn't cause any problems. Princeton must be cursed.

What's weird is that I hiked Democrat, Cameron and Lincoln all in the same day without really any issues. Then I hike this and fell like crap.
 

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