The Ellingwood Arete (also known as Ellingwood Route or Ellingwood Ledges or some combination thereof) is a popular technical
climbing route
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on
Crestone Needle
Crestone Needle is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The fourteener is located east-southeast ( bearing 108°) of the Town of Crestone in Saguache County, Color ...
in
Colorado
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's
Sangre de Cristo Range
The Sangre de Cristo Range is a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in southern Colorado in the United States, running north and south along the east side of the Rio Grande Rift. The mountains extend southeast from Poncha Pass for about thr ...
. The Ellingwood Ledges Route is recognized in the historic climbing text ''
Fifty Classic Climbs of North America
''Fifty Classic Climbs of North America'' is a 1979 climbing guidebook
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''.
[Louis W. Dawson II, ''Dawson's Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners, Volume 2'', Blue Clover Press, 1999, , Route 2.1.4.] An "arete" is "a sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains".
Albert R. Ellingwood was a pioneering member of the
Colorado Mountain Club
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and the first to climb the
Crestones
The Crestones are a group of four peaks ( fourteeners) in the Sangre de Cristo Range above Crestone, central southern Colorado, comprising:
# Crestone Peak ( )
# Crestone Needle ( )
#Kit Carson Mountain ( )
# Humboldt Peak ( )
Snow is usually ...
On these climbs including the 1925 ascent of the arete,Ellingwood was partnered with the long lived Eleanor Davis.
The route is technically difficult, and the site of multiple climbing fatalities.
"Plano mountaineers fall to their deaths in Colorado"
article by Matthew Haag in ''The Dallas Morning News
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'' August 3, 2010, accessed September 24, 2010
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External links
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