Route Type Trad/Alpine Grade III | Rating | |
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Location Crestone Needle, Colorado, USA Climbing Area Sangre de Cristo Range, Rocky Mountains First ascent Albert R. Ellingwood, 1925. | ||
The Ellingwood Arete (also known as Ellingwood Route or Ellingwood Ledges or some combination thereof) is a popular technical climbing route on Crestone Needle in Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Range. The Ellingwood Ledges Route is recognized in the historic climbing text Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. An "arete" is "a sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains".
Albert R. Ellingwood was a pioneering member of the Colorado Mountain Club and the first to climb the Crestones
The route is technically difficult, and the site of multiple climbing fatalities.
References
Ellingwood Ledges (Crestone Needle) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA