Capitol Peak - K2 to Summit

[@NotImportant404]

Great video! I don’t know what was more terrifying… the heights or the loose rock I live in Colorado and love the outdoors but Capitol Peak scares the hell out of me!

[@feedfacedeadbeef]

I'm planning to do this in Aug. 2023. Your video is truly an excellent resource with just the right amount of edits...... zero.

[@nataliyasundina6693]

Great video! Thank you for sharing! Looked like you were able to walk across the whole ridge... and actually flew by it!!! I watched other videos and they definitely looked scarier. Most of them were sitting on the knife edge and sliding through .

[@lexibecker7501]

You said that’s pretty steep, and I was like yeah uhm get down!!!

[@TruthHasSpoken]

Breathing gets pretty fast for a reason. Bravo....

[@markb3806]

Excellent. One of the better climbing videos I've seen on You Tube. The portion of the climb past the knife edge may not be as spectacular as the knife edge itself but it looks every bit as difficult and potentially more dangerous? I suspect it's rough on the way down too. I was alarmed (because I've not climbed it yet) at how relentless the exposure is on Capitol Peak from K2 all the way to the summit. Great views from the summit though. Incidentally, isn't Castle the distant conical peak between Pyramid and North Maroon (a little closer to Pyramid than N Maroon) in your video at 40.08? Cathedral would be the next substantial peak on that ridge line to the left I think.

[@ablocki]

After the knife edge definitely has more rock fall potential as we saw with one of the rescue attempts on Capitol this summer I'm pretty sure you're correct on Castle and Cathedral too, Conundrum is probably hidden behind the ridge from this perspective

[@roywalck663]

Yup. That pile of shattered rocks looks a little too precarious for me! Good job!

[@gazo195]

Hey Adam great video. I am planning to climb in mid-July this year. Do you think I might need crampons or any other technical equipment? Should I camp by the lake or at the trailhead? I live in NC and no idea how it’s going to be like. Thanks!

[@ablocki]

I would guess no snow gear would be needed by July but check out 14ers.com for recent conditions reports. If you're coming from sea level, I would camp by the lake. That allows you to chop up the hike into two days and make the final push way shorter the next morning. From the lake, the summit is less than two miles away, but there's about 2,300 feet of gain. Also, I think they instituted a permit system this year that you might want to look into

[@scottfulton267]

Awesome! This is one of the few videos I have seen on Capitol that shows the climbing after the knife edge to the summit. You made it look a lot less difficult than this mountain is rumored to be. It looks like it was mostly class 3 with a bit of class 4, does that sound right? Route-finding looks like the biggest challenge on this one.

[@ablocki]

I'm not sure I took the "correct" route the entire way but it definitely felt like high 3 to low 4 scrambling. Biggest factor was the exposure but the rock was pretty solid

[@Aidandenniston]

I would love to see more videos from you man!! Would absolutely be a fan

[@ablocki]

I've been trying to, struggling to line up dates with my usual climbing partner to do some of the tougher Centennials in CO. I'm always looking for new people to climb with if you're down!

[@Aidandenniston]

@@ablocki I am right in the front range. I would absolutely love to!

[@ablocki]

Shoot me a DM on Insta @bear.gryllzzly.adam and we’ll try and make it happen!

[@abuhnerkemper]

Big balls Blocki with no phone case on Capitol

[@ToblerX]

It looks like you gained the ridge earlier than normal on the Summit? Is that the case, or does the standard route summit push usually include such a long Traverse along the ridge?

[@ablocki]

I think your route relative to the ridge is a bit of personal preference and what you are comfortable with in the moment. The 14ers.com route description (www.14ers.com/route.php?route=capi1) shows an overview of the route (photo 18) that seems pretty close to this but I have heard of people staying closer to the ridge for more spice

[@ToblerX]

@@ablocki thanks for the reply. I just summited today. We took the same path as you but once gaining the ridge we dropped down a bit. I could see how either would work and how your route would be more exciting.

[@spammburgers78]

Knife edge looks easier than the summit push. Damn!

[@ablocki]

You are 100% correct. None of it is too daunting but the knife edge is just the beginning...

[@oscarmolinaoutdooradventur1648]

👍🏼❤️🥰😍

[@freesoul1825]

23:20 ...climbing the edje looked less dangerous instead of doing that shitty crosswise...and it was at least probably better to leave some stone man to keep track of your way...im scared of those labirints 😅 in any case good video without fish eye at least its real...appreciated the trekking 🤙✌...capytol peak...done 🏑 😅🤣

[@darrinseiwert3976]

what map were you checking for the route? Good video

[@ablocki]

I use GPX files, photos, and route descriptions from 14ers.com. Great site with tons of resources

[@tinfoilhat2846]

so crazy seeing a massive spring only 100 ft from the ridge., I've seen springs come out 30 ft from the top of the ridge. oh and plate tectonics is wrong that's why that ridge looks like a shattered Rock deck of cards that got shuffled together and it's broken so many different ways ways that you never see the rock break which is normally like a math fractal conch shell I think what you're looking at on the tops of these ridges is ablation only the pressure gets released as material is ejected and you end up with half ground up Rock I don't think that I know that I don't know what the books say but those people are nuts. where the guy talking about horizontal faulting.... I'm like say what? that's a rock slide if a horizontal fault is a real thing there's no such thing as earthquakes they're all just landslides. I'm bringing sanity back to geology no more vague terms and condescending names for things they offer no explanation just a name the explanation is in the name it's a truncated thrust fault to normal fault and then the horizontal fault catches air over the threshold does a Captain Morgan off the handlebars in the front 360

[@loadedjesus]

bro cut the video when ur putting the gopro on that shit exterminated my eardrums