Introduction
On July 31 Jacob Morgan and I attempted an alternate route to Long's Peak via The Loft, which is the high rocky saddle between Mount Meeker and Long's Peak. We scrambled up some pretty challenging near-vertical terrain to get to The Loft, then found our way up to Mount Meeker. The view of the surrounding mountains and valleys from here was astounding, and Long's looks like alien landscape from the summit of Meeker's. When we got back to The Loft we had trouble finding the connecting route to Long's on the northwest corner, and before we had a chance to figure it out, clouds rolled in, hail started falling, and we headed back down.
We were accompanied on our way up by a really fine climber named Fay Morgan, an architect from Tenafly, NJ, who appears in one of the images here.
