On June 26, 2010 We headed for Navajo Peak in the Indian Peaks Wilderness west of Longmont Colorado. The trailhead is the Brainerd Lake Recreation Area and specifically the trail to Long Lake. A good trail goes all the way past Long Lake and Isabelle Lake to the Isabelle Glacier nearby - but with the "massive snowpack" in 2010 there was much snow starting at Isabelle Lake. Once the trail heads steeply up to the glacier, leave the Isabelle Glacier Trail head SW into the basin below Navajo. There are probably boot tracks in the rocks but it was all snow this day and not alot of activity in recent times. We climbed the Navajo Snowfield and N Face Route. Climb the snowfield 1000' to the saddle between Navajo and the Peak to the north. From the saddle climb straight up rock on the N Face 110 feet to a steep section. Climb an easy roped pitch (5.4) 90' past a flake at first to a large ledge covered with scree. Bring 5 pieces of pro from 5/16" to 1 3/4". mrs. museum said we may have been off route a bit. A party just before us went up a different crack apparently. I did not see them. From the scree covered ledge, scramble S and SE to the SW corner of the summit area. From the SW corner, scramble NE to the top. We descended the Airplane Gully Route. We were apparently terribly slow as this took 11:40 in only 10 miles. Only 3 parties and 7 climbers total. The fast movers we encountered went to Shoshoni Pk to the N.

This is an excellent and varied route.

Big storm on the descent.

All is well.