I saw a dusting of snow on the western aspects of the Crestones yesterday while driving by them.spadflyer12 wrote:Does anyone have a good view of the Crestones? I'm hoping to do the North Pillar tomorrow, but don't really want to do it with snow or ice on route....
Did winter come early in the Sangres or what??
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Re: Did winter come early in the Sangres or what??
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Re: Did winter come early in the Sangres or what??
Yeah, we made it up the North Pillar without a problem, but the North Butress had quite a bit of snow on it. We decided that attempting the 5.2 downclimb and 4th class unprotected slab traverse from Northeast Crestone to the main notch in the 25+mph winds with snow on the trail would be a bad idea, so we bailed down to Bear's Playground. Was still a pretty epic climb.jdorje wrote:north is probably a bad idea. can't see that area though.
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Re: Did winter come early in the Sangres or what??
I don't think it's quite winter, but fall has arrived right on time about an hour ago.
