"Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it."
--Ernest Hemingway
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REM - Jun 6, 2011 4:27 pm Date Climbed: Aug 30, 1981
From Montezuma BasinClimbed with my Father
Up2zmtns - Mar 19, 2011 1:48 pm Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2010
Conundrum Couloir to Castle Peakfun, with tyler, our first couloir
altitude14er - Jan 14, 2011 11:57 pm Date Climbed: Aug 14, 2010
Route Climbed: Conundrum TraverseAfter a nasty fall on Conundrum I reached this summit on a bloody, swollen knee cap!
centrifuge - Jan 13, 2011 12:43 am Date Climbed: Sep 12, 2010
with castle the other big Camazing september day
thatnissanguy - Dec 18, 2010 9:58 pm Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2010
Castle and ConundrumTraversed from Conundrum. Climbed Conundrum over 5th class slabs from a notch in the North Ridge.
rockymountaindiva - Oct 11, 2010 12:25 am Date Climbed: Oct 2, 2010
2nd tryGot blown off about 300' from the top only a month earlier. Glad to make it on the 2nd attempt.
strudolyubov - Sep 27, 2010 11:58 am Date Climbed: Sep 26, 2010
Castle/Conundrum comboSummited Castle via Northeast Ridge. Continued on to Conundrum, then returned back the same way. Nice hiking/scrambling with a little bit of snow, great weather, gorgeous views!
byates - Sep 1, 2010 6:47 pm Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2010
Up East and to ConundrumA bit of new snow, went up the Northeast ridge, traversed to Conundrum and down the saddle, I was surprised by the depth and size of the crevases in the snow field going all the way into the tarn.
BigRob - Aug 25, 2010 3:24 pm Date Climbed: Jul 29, 2010
StandardClimbed with Katie in moderate clouds. Nice summit and my first time in the Elks
JustinShapiro - Aug 17, 2010 5:21 am Date Climbed: Aug 15, 2010
Along with ConundrumClimbed along with Conundrum Peak. In my opinion, these two peaks were the easiest 14ers I've climbed so far. I wasn't even sore after wards, it was great and the weather was fantastic. The hardest part about this climb was descending the ice field below the Castle-Conundrum saddle. It was very slippery with lots of falling rock.
rdmc - Jul 30, 2010 12:23 pm Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2010
Awesome day at the Castle! :0)Couldn't have asked for a better day.
Nice to get up in the altitudes again, where the air is crisp, cool, clean, and thin!
The slide down was great fun too.
:0)
kunz82414 - Jul 26, 2010 1:07 am Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2010
YupGood summer day, enjoyed the scramble and the view.
seano - Jun 21, 2010 3:50 pm Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2010
NE ridgeSnow made this much more pleasant, with 2 glissades on the way down. Trip report
metal4lyf - Jun 7, 2010 10:33 am Date Climbed: Jun 5, 2010
via ConundrumThis was a very easy 400' scramble from the north ridge.
chicagotransplant - May 24, 2010 1:31 pm Date Climbed: May 23, 2010
North Couloir w/ skiSam and I hiked up the North Couloir and skied back down. Put up a high camp at 12,800 the night before, windy night! High camp was good though, and we were able to ski out before the road got to mushy.
theREALCarpeDM - Apr 8, 2010 5:56 pm Date Climbed: Aug 23, 2008
2nd tryGot myself into a dilly of a pickle, though. Got off-route - off the ridge and nearly slid off the mountain trying to get back on route. Luckily, it turned out okay.
utclimber - Mar 28, 2010 4:13 pm
Northwest RidgeHiked up Castle Peak, then traversed over to Conundrum.
JB99 - Dec 9, 2009 4:36 pm Date Climbed: Jun 30, 2007
From ConundrumCame over from Conundrum after climbing the namesake couloir. A trip report and video are linked below.
http://www.14ers.com/php14ers/tripreport.php?trip=4569&parmuser=JB99&cpgm=tripuser
Senad Rizvanovic - Nov 24, 2009 12:25 am Date Climbed: Sep 7, 2009
1st in ElksGreat climb, due to weather conditions i didint make it to Conundrum.
2nd time July 12, 2015
Mark N - Sep 8, 2009 1:31 am Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2009
NE RidgeWith sister Liz, her first fourteener.