Purple --> Winter Class 2 Ridge Runs for Cents & Bi-Cents

[CheapCigarMan]

List your recommended Cents / Bi-Cents Class 2 ridge runs or good routes in general for this time of year?

[CaptainSuburbia]

Mt Adams is usually pretty good this time of year and it looks like the storms this week will mostly miss the Sangres. There are class 2 13ers on either side of Adams that you can connect without much difficulty.

[Scott P]

Massive would be a good one and you could even do Massive Mania, though it would be very long if you tried it in a day.

[Marmot72]

Check out Bull Hill, Casco/French/Lackawanna. Also Rinker by way of the unranked Twin Peaks (SarahT has a winter report on those). Atlantic and Pacific, North Star or Wheeler to North Star, Arkansas, Twin Pk A (leave trail early for north ridge).

[TaylorHolt]

Check out Bull Hill, Casco/French/Lackawanna. Also Rinker by way of the unranked Twin Peaks (SarahT has a winter report on those). Atlantic and Pacific, North Star or Wheeler to North Star, Arkansas, Twin Pk A (leave trail early for north ridge).

For Casco and French, would you start from the Indy Pass closure? I think Dad Mike has a TR on that route. The standard route on those peaks looks pretty avy prone.

I'd add California from Zapata TH and a lot of the Bi-Cents off Guanella Pass (Square Top, Argentine, and Gray Wolf).

[cottonmountaineering]

everything in the mosquito/tenmile

[Marmot72]

For Casco and French, would you start from the Indy Pass closure? I think Dad Mike has a TR on that route. The standard route on those peaks looks pretty avy prone.

Yes from Hwy 82 in the area of the hairpin turn - over Casco and onto French. Casco has a nice ridge from Bull Hill, too, but it would be a long day to reverse it and I imagine the basin is full of powder - that and the willows would make for a frustrating, slow exit (that's what I experienced in early spring one year).

[blazintoes]

For Casco and French, would you start from the Indy Pass closure? I think Dad Mike has a TR on that route. The standard route on those peaks looks pretty avy prone.

Yes from Hwy 82 in the area of the hairpin turn - over Casco and onto French. Casco has a nice ridge from Bull Hill, too, but it would be a long day to reverse it and I imagine the basin is full of powder - that and the willows would make for a frustrating, slow exit (that's what I experienced in early spring one year).

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Following in Mikes footsteps while chasing the winter centennials and knowing him as a good winter partner, he is a sandbagger. If Mike says, “it wasn’t that bad” be a little scared. After reading his TR for Frasco I decided to head all the way up North Fork. Also I wouldn’t consider Mikes route or my route to be class 2. As usual it depends on the snow conditions. Both our routes had small sections of 3/4 and my ascent/descent routes were very good with no avy potential. Also the upper valley is quite stunning in winter! There is nothing more spectacular than untouched pristine mountain snow.

[yaktoleft13]

For Casco and French, would you start from the Indy Pass closure? I think Dad Mike has a TR on that route. The standard route on those peaks looks pretty avy prone.

Yes from Hwy 82 in the area of the hairpin turn - over Casco and onto French. Casco has a nice ridge from Bull Hill, too, but it would be a long day to reverse it and I imagine the basin is full of powder - that and the willows would make for a frustrating, slow exit (that's what I experienced in early spring one year).

Echo creek is certainly an option. Did that on Casco a few years ago in the highest of the high snow year and there was no avy risk gaining the ridge at the saddle. Sections of the approach can slide though, particularly one big chute off Bull Hill. It would be a long day to get all 3, absolutely, but doable if one was determined enough.