Peak Condition Update | Quandary Peak

Peak:	Quandary Peak
Route:	South Gully aka Cristo Couloir
Range:	Tenmile
Posted By:	Jay521
Date of Info:	5/31/2015
Date Posted:	5/31/2015

Details
Nice conditions early for the climb. Got a bit soft as the sun came out and the temps went up. Several skiers coming down who all must be vegetarians as they were all talking about corn or beans or something... :-)

Comments or Questions

SnowAlien	vegetarians 5/31/2015 2:40pm Ha! I had a laugh
Jay521	Glad... 5/31/2015 3:11pm ... I made you smile, Natalie!
kenichi4692	did you 6/1/2015 1:14am use an axe or poles? should I take both? I’m trying this Tuesday..
Jay521	Yes 6/1/2015 5:42am Crampons, axe, poles and helmet are all prudent. I honestly don’t think you could make it up without crampons and it gets pretty slick as it warms so an axe is pretty well mandatory. Edit: There are several boot step tracks going up so "maybe" you could make it up without crampons if you hit it really early in the AM. But I wouldn’t want to do that route without them.
holdontoyourbutts	Accesible? 6/2/2015 4:52pm Were you able to tell if Cristo is accessible via the East Ridge route? We want to ski the Couloir, but don’t have crampons so were hoping to approach on skins by the East route.
Jay521	East should be good 6/3/2015 7:45am I saw a skier coming down the couloir who did exactly that so you should be good. You will have a bit of a walk back to the East ridge parking lot unless you have a car shuttle...