Lone Eagle Peak  Photos:  Recent | Best | Popular Elevation:  11,920' Lat, Long:  40.0714, -105.66 Map Page Views:  57,322. Good page? (5 likes)    Administrators:  Ben Mottinger, Leo Paik, John McNamee, Frances Fierst, Monomaniac, Tom Erickson Submitted By:  Pinklebear on Aug 11, 2005 Make this area a Favorite What's New   Print a Mini-Guide with routes Add Route  Add Photo  Add Comment  Add Event  Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri 43° | 30° 48° | 30° 61° | 36° 63° | 37° 72° | 43°

BETA PHOTO: Lone Eagle Peak with Stettner route shown.

Description 

Lone Eagle Peak, though a mere 11,900 feet high, is one of the most remote and beautiful granite peaks in Colorado. It sits just west of the Continental Divide in the Indian Peaks near Pawnee Pass and is host to a classic Stettner route, the 5.7 north face, a must-do for the grade.

The Lone Eagle Cirque can be approached from the east over Pawnee Pass or from the west starting at the Monarch Lake trailhead. No matter which way you go it's a long hump. There is plenty of potential for new (trad) routes and bouldering in the Crater Lake/Triangle Lake area. This area is quite pristine. Do your best to keep it that way!

Getting There 

Access the Brainard Lake Recreation Area via the Peak-to-Peak Highway. Drive west past Brainard Lake to the Long Lake trailhead and follow the Pawnee Pass trail 4-5 miles to the pass at 12,500 feet on the Continental Divide. Descend the west side of Pawnee Pass (very steep), passing Pawnee Lake en route to a junction with the Crater Lake Trail 3 miles below the pass. Hike a gentle uphill mile south to Crater Lake (camping permit required -- you can get these at the National Forest Service office in Boulder). Lone Eagle Peak is the towering pinnacle just south of and above the lake.

The Classics

Featured Route For Lone Eagle Peak

Mohling Traverse 5.2  CO : Alpine Rock : ... : Lone Eagle Peak

This sustained excursion (lots of 4th and easy 5th class) starts on the summit of Lone Eagle Peak (reached either via the North Face Route or Solo Flight) and traverses south along a spectacular ridge to the seldom-visited summit of Iriquois (12,799). From the summit of Lone Eagle follow the Solo Flight route south to the one point at which it drops over a notch onto the west side of the ridge. Descend 100 feet west down a gully and continue up and south on a grassy, diagonalling bench below t...[more]   Browse More Classics in CO

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BETA PHOTO: From the west side of Shoshone Peak: The North Fac...	Lone Eagle Peak from Mirror Lake.	Diamond Dave traversing off the summit of Lone Eag...
nice evening at Crater lake	Lone Eagle Peak highlighted with an early snow fal...	Becky ON the summit! (climbing from the North Face...
BETA PHOTO: A good look at the north face route (most of the c...	Ridge line south from Lone Eagle Peak summit.	BETA PHOTO: Descending Solo Flight.
The peak.