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LA Freeway (Long's to Arapaho Traverse)
Easy 5th YDS 1+ French 3 Ewbanks I UIAA 5 ZA M 1c British
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Trad, Alpine
GPS:
40.08365, -105.58099
FA:
Buzz Burrell, 2002
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Martin le Roux<br>on Sep 23, 2019
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Access Issue: Closed Area - City of Boulder Watershed<br>Details
Parts of the continental divide between Navajo and S Arapaho fall inside the City of Boulder's Silver Lake Watershed, whose boundary crosses and re-crosses the divide in multiple places. In theory the watershed is a closed area, but the W boundary isn't marked, and in practice the City doesn't restrict access to peaks on the divide such as S Arapaho, N Arapaho and Navajo, even though their summits or parts of their approaches are inside the watershed. It's unclear if they have a policy for other peaks on the divide but inside the watershed such as Arikaree and Deshawa. Peaks that are well to the E of the divide such as Albion and Kiowa are clearly off-limits.
Watershed boundary map: caltopo.com/map.html#ll=40.…
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"LA Freeway" is the complete ridge traverse from Long's Peak to S. Arapaho Peak, tagging 19 officially-named summits en route and staying as close to the ridgeline as practical. Unnamed spot heights and unofficially-named features such as the Chessman are optional. It's about 38 miles with 21,000' of gain. Much of it is easy scrambling and hiking (or running) across tundra, but there are several 4th Class and low 5th Class sections, with optional harder variations. It was first done over two days in 2002 by Buzz Burrell. The current record (2024) is a remarkable 13:20:48 by Anton Krupicka. See https://www.strava.com/activities/12293733797. For a history of previous records, see https://fastestknowntime.com/route/la-freeway-co.<br>Lack of water can be a problem once you get past Longs Peak. The ideal time for an unsupported attempt is early summer, when there's enough residual snow to provide water but before the summer monsoon. If attempting this in late summer, you may need to enlist friends to meet you en route with water, or pre-place your own supplies. In mid-July 2020, after a hot and dry spring, we found water at these locations:<br>- A small pool on the S slopes of Mt Alice at 40.2310 N, 105.6699 W.<br>- Several small pools about 0.25 SW of Ouzel Peak at 40.1837 N, 105.6748 W. Water has been reported here as late as September.<br>- A small pool at the saddle between Mt. Toll and Pawnee Peak.<br>- A small pool near Pawnee Pass.<br>- A large perennial tarn at the base of the snowfield between Navajo Peak and Arikaree Peak.<br>According to USGS topo maps the officially-named summits are Longs Peak, Pagoda, Chiefs Head, Alice, Tanima, The Cleaver, Isolation, Ouzel, Ogalalla, Sawtooth, Paiute Peak, Toll, Pawnee, Shoshoni, Apache, Navajo, Arikaree, and N. and S. Arapaho. (These are the USGS spellings. MountainProject prefers "Long's Peak" to "Longs Peak"). There are several other features with unofficial names, such as "Ooh La La", "Algonquin", and...