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This is going to sound like a silly request but I am after a GPS profile of the hike to the Mushroom. I am training for it and want to be sure I am doing something similar. Luckily I have a nice backyard in Colorado for the training but I don't want to think I am prepared and then not be.

Anything that can be shared with me will be kept private. I searched all over the climbing forums but can't find quite what I want. I have some nice software that allows me to compare my current hikes with other profiles.

It might sound like I am over analyzing it....but I like to visualize this stuff. None of the guides I spoke to had anything similar either, they just had badass profiles of the return trip.....

I took my cycling GPS with me last time I hiked it but it's not really designed to deal with such drastic altitude changes so the plot was garbage. FWIW (not much) the overall data it spat back at me was something like 3k+ft climbed in ~1.5mi travelled.

Really though none of it is technically difficult, it's just relentlessly steep and exposed.

http://maps.google.com/...IEo&ved=0CHsQtgM

From the looks of this map, it's about 900 meters from eiger gleicer.

The hike itself isn't bad at all. There is one section where you will want to use the fixed rope where it gets steep. BIG HINT-- use the rope on the right, not the one on the left. The fixed rope on the left looks fine from below but halfway up it is basically hanging by a thread where it took a massive coreshot. That was two years ago so maybe it has changed, but I would have appreciated knowing that before I went so there you go, take it for what it's worth, two year old advice. The downclimb from taking the wrong fixed rope up wasn't easy, and if I wasn't a rock climber already it would have been real scary but the hike itself is easy fitness wise. I didn't even bring water.

You're in Boulder right? If you can hike from baseline rd, to the golden arches, to the top of the second flatiron and back then you will be fine fitness wise. Try to do some rock climbing before you go just to get comfy with the exposure aspect of it, but there's no real 'climbing' involved except for that short fixed rope section. Don't overthink it, you'll be fine.

I took that rope down toward the end of the season two years ago. I think it was down to one core at that point, not sure if anyone has replaced it. Its a decently easy route to free climb if youre used to that sort of thing. The hike is pretty easy, any basic cardio stuff should prepare you.

The ropes on the left hand route were good this september.

If I was out on a hike/climb and came over really unsafe climbing equipment (or loose boulders, rocks other dangerous stuff), I would cut it/remove it/make sure no one else would be using it or exposed to danger! Seriously, why let stuff like that hang if the condition of the gear is so bad you wouldn't use it yourself with the advice of Captain Hindsight. Lets take care of each other out there and be safe in this sport happy new and safe year

Thanks to all, I got some great input here and via PM's and it all adds up in the same direction.

I actually live up in Breck but that sounds like a nice hike in Boulder so I will give it a go. I get to spend a lot of time on Ten Mile Range, Quandary and Bald Mountain. One advantage of Breckenridge is at least the training altitude!

Jakee, even if you have a bad GPS plot altitude wise from the device there are some tools which will adjust the track based on topo data. I use one on my iPhone which in realtime can have incorrect GPS data but once it is uploaded it can be adjusted based on the local topo. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. If you happen to have it still I can give it a try.

Either way I am heading up the Eiger next July!

Simon

If you can hike quandary, you're fine fitness wise.

Yup agreed. I had heard the rumor of this rope so I went up the left side. One of those scary coreshots that you can only see at the very end.

its not a hard hike, just steep...sweet view :)

Scotty's a bitch!

hike to the diamond on a hangover you will be fine

(but no jumpy jump from the diamond, oh no)