I’ve always wanted to do this ever since I saw the Mediocre Amateur video in what felt like another lifetime before the pandemic. I took the ridge direct, making it an extra long scramble 😋.

No idea what I’m looking at (Holy Cross Wilderness?), but I’m a sucker for sunrises nonetheless

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Morning light on Capitol Peak. I crossed that log.

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The famed knife edge, which wasn’t bad at all compared to the rest of the route in my opinion

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Colors!

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Looking down at Capitol Lake

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Pyramid and Maroon group in the center out in the distance, Pierre Lakes in front, Snowmass right

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Snowmass closer up, well the peak behind it that is

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Satan’s Ridge that connects Capitol to Snowmass, and is probably one of the dumber, dangerous, and chossiest things you can do in Colorado

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The Sound of Music type vibes

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Notes

• This was probably ~17 miles and ~5800 feet of vertical gain just shy of 8 hours. 500 of those feet was me trying to find my helmet that I dropped just before the ridge climb on the Mount Daly saddle that I thought rolled all the way to the bottom of the basin.
• Learned that camping at the Capitol Lake is quite common, but this doesn’t seem like a crazy day and the mileage goes by pretty quickly.
• No surprises and less loose than expected. Knife edge was chill and the hardest climbing was probably getting up and down K2.