What am I seeing?

This is Dream Lake in RMNP. I'm wondering what the amazing granite face on the left is and if there happen to be any established routes on it. Any beta on this?? Rock on!

Are there any other established routes elsewhere off the Bear Lake Trail?

Rock on!

That be Hallet's Peak. Routes all over that thing. Petit Grepon is across from it on the right.

That's Hallet's peak. There are several routes up it, most are on MP.

mountainproject.com/v/halle…

Curious as to why you didn't just look at a map of dream lake and figure out what mountain that is? Not try to be a jerk, just seems like the obvious thing to me.

Glenn Schuler wrote:That be Hallet's Peak. Routes all over that thing. Petit Grepon is across from it on the right.

That's not Petit Grepon, The Petit is in a different valley, by Sky Pond. That's Flattop.

That's Longs Peak. If you look closely you can see the Casual Route. There are no other established routes except for the Casual Route.

Paul-B wrote: That's not Petit Grepon, The Petit is in a different valley, by Sky Pond. That's Flattop.

My feeble mind remembers the Petit being somewhat across from Hallets - old age is a bitch. My bad, carry on.

Glenn Schuler wrote: My feeble mind remembers the Petit being somewhat across from Hallets - old age is a bitch. My bad, carry on.

Its tricky. Last time I was up there, I had a brief thought that i was looking at the petit. There are several rock formations on flattop that, from a distance, look similar to the petit.

Here is a pic of that face of flat top. Several granite finger that I could see resembling the petit.

mountainproject.com/v/10580…

Petit is on the left and Long's is on the right. Casual Route isn't the only one, Scenic Cruise goes up the left side of Long's too.

Paul-B wrote: Its tricky. Last time I was up there, I had a brief thought that i was looking at the petit. There are several rock formations on flattop that, from a distance, look similar to the petit. Here is a pic of that face of flat top. Several granite finger that I could see resembling the petit. mountainproject.com/v/10580…

I remember seeing the sun come up as we were doing one of those Hallett routes, the morning sun catching those towers across the valley is an amazing sight.

Hallet is indeed a beautiful granite face. I've done the Culp-Bossier route. It was great.

There used to be an amazing 5.7 on Hallets: Northcut-Carter (a 50 Classics Climb), but the first two pitches fell off.

(This statement sounds like a continuation of the theme, but it is sadly true.)

Paul-B wrote:That's Hallet's peak. There are several routes up it, most are on MP. mountainproject.com/v/halle… Curious as to why you didn't just look at a map of dream lake and figure out what mountain that is? Not try to be a jerk, just seems like the obvious thing to me.

To look at a map honestly didn't cross my mind. Also, I prefer to get info from people who have been there, live there, and know, so that when I do grab a map I'll have a better idea what I'm looking at.

C. Archibald wrote:Hallet is indeed a beautiful granite face. I've done the Culp-Bossier route. It was great.

Hallett is gneiss and schist not granite.

VRP wrote: Hallett is gneiss and schist not granite.

The petite is in another glacier valley and I think that is Flattop.

Gneiss and schist are metamorphosed granite.

Old geology joke: " You don't know Schist."

First Track Jack wrote: Gneiss and schist are metamorphosed granite.

Correction: Most gneisses are metamorphosed "granitoids", but schists are most often metamorphosed sedimentary or volcanic rocks.

Hi Tommy, you are correct. I was being a little more layman about it

First Track Jack wrote:Hi Tommy, you are correct. I was being a little more layman about it

After I commented, I wandered onto your page and notice you are also a geologist. So please excuse my pedantic comment - I hate to lecture to another geologist about the basics!

No worries, Thanks for keeping me straight Tom, give me a shout if you're ever down here.

Cheers