Harvard View

My wife and I climbed Mt. Harvard yesterday, which was a complete suffer-fest to get in shape in one day.

We took the Frenchman's Creek route and joined the Columbia/Harvard saddle, then went up the SE ridge, over 3 false summits to the pile of rocks on top.

This image is a view of Mt. Columbia above the Frenchman's Creek basin.

This is the view of Horned Fork Basin from the top of 14,420' Mt. Harvard, Colorado's 3rd highest peak. Mt. Columbia is on the left, Mt. Yale in the center, Princeton and Antero beyond Yale. Bear lake is lower right.

Killer stuff! I've wanted to get up into Horn Fork Basin for a long time. This inspires me more.

Nice, I'm actually planning to head to Horn Fork Basin in the next few days, and probably climbing Harvard while I'm there.

Great views, Dave! I climbed Columbia a few years back - it was like climbing a Ruffles potato chip with all the ridges/false summits. So you traversed that saddle between Harvard and Columbia? I heard that can be a pretty nasty route. We were going to try to do Harvard after Columbia, but the weather wasn't looking good at all, so I never found out.

I think we might end up near there this weekend. Thanks for sharing these from your outing.

nice second shot Dave!

Awesome view from the top. I can't wait to go there. Thank you for posting.

Congrats Dave! That first shot has a tricky perspective; it looks like those ponds are going uphill!

Nice stuff Dave!

Nice stuff Dave!