Missouri Mountain

El. 14,067 ft

[INTRO PHOTO]

June 27, 2004

Fellow Adventurers: Dan Turk, Eric Sigler, and Phil Klotzbach

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About the Mountain

    Located in the ?? range ... previous climbs (and/or reports), interesting facts. Summarize the trip (backpack vs. day hike, training vs. social hike vs. serious mountaineering)

Give highlights?

Approach 

    This peak . . .  interesting facts about the trip down and/or backpack in, camping, etc.

Ascent

    Details of the climb (if starting from backpacking)

Summit Experience

    Time on top, 14'er #, weather, interesting features, interesting people.

To get the full immersive experience, I've prepared a 360 degree panorama:

[Panoramic photo]

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Click on the panorama to see the full size [size Kb].

Or you can view it interactively using this panorama viewer [size Mb -- warning, this will take a while to load on a modem connection].

If you have trouble viewing this file, you can also download this executable, save it to your desktop, then double-click on it to view the panorama. The executable file contains a viewer that should work regardless of your web browser.

    From left to right, the main features are:

1. blah blah valley

    [ Group Photo]

[ Crazy shot ]

[ Views of other peaks ]

Traverse to next peak

I took a couple video clips which may be viewed using Windows Media Player. If using a modem, the broadband version will take very long, so a reduced-quality dial-up version is available:

    Clip 1: Broadband [size Mb] or Dial-up [size Kb]

        These files are in Windows Media Player format, so they should load automatically if you're on a Windows computer. There is no sound (in case you were expecting some).

Descent

Statistics

Weather

The 6 AM morning sounding from Denver for June 26 showed temperatures of 8 deg C at 700 mb (~10,000 feet), -3 deg C at 600 mb (~14,000 feet), and -11 at 500 mb (~18,000 feet). The sounding the next morning (the day we were climbing) showed 7 deg C at 700 mb, -5 at 600 mb, and -11 at 500 mb.

We arrived at the top of Missouri at around 6:30 AM. The temperature on top was 31 deg F. On top of Belford it was 35 degrees at 10:15 AM.

Convective clouds could be seen developing by about 9 AM, and on the way down, we heard the first thunder at around 11:30 AM. By then, isolated thundershowers had developed in the surrounding mountains. 

Option sections - history of peak, wildlife, route info and alternates, map, gear, food

Might try to include feelings, sounds, smells - other thoughts about life and mountains, goals, etc.

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