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kyrawhitworth wrote: ↑Mon Mar 24, 2025 2:04 pm
S Lookout: Magnum couloir, can you actually get to the summit of S Lookout from this route? My thought is no, no you can't. Somewhat related, it looks like the true summit has been changed post LiDAR
Magnum is not a summit climb but you could gain the ridge to the notch between the false summit and the summit with it then do the scramble. Another option is to skin in on the road to Opus, ski down beneath the nose into the Mineral middle fork drainage into Paradise Basin, then climb Labyrinth couloir to the summit.
Faces due east so you'd need an early start. Guessing it's in that 50 deg +/- range. Top appears to be the steepest.
Magnum in teal, Labyrinth in red.
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kyrawhitworth wrote: ↑Mon Mar 24, 2025 2:04 pm
S Lookout: Magnum couloir, can you actually get to the summit of S Lookout from this route? My thought is no, no you can't. Somewhat related, it looks like the true summit has been changed post LiDAR
Magnum is not a summit climb but you could gain the ridge to the notch between the false summit and the summit with it then do the scramble. Another option is to skin in on the road to Opus, ski down beneath the nose into the Mineral middle fork drainage into Paradise Basin, then climb Labyrinth couloir to the summit.
Faces due east so you'd need an early start. Guessing it's in that 50 deg +/- range. Top appears to be the steepest.
Magnum in teal, Labyrinth in red.
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IMG_7491.jpeg
Ahh thank you, that confirms my thoughts on Magnum where there would definitely be some tricky scrambling to get from there to the summit. Oooff Labyrinth indeed looks steep but good to know that snow route exists (even if too steep for me--a someday goal perhaps).
Welcome. Planning to go for a climb and ski of Labyrinth next week if conditions lineup. Maybe I’ll write a TR if it goes well. Maybe I’ll write a TR if it goes poorly too.
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I climbed Labyrinth yesterday. Not sure if I’ll do a TR. My partner and I attempted to summit from that north notch and failed. We made it about 50 ft up and within 100ft or so of the summit. But the tricky moves did not relent. It was a lot of mantling on loose rock. The downclimbing was sketchy. I think you could get up it at low-mid 5th but you would want to wrap a horn with some webbing and rappel to get back down.
We lucked out on conditions. Supportable booting but deep skiing. Prob maxed out at about 50deg in the couloir.
Labyrinth Descent
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Jorts wrote: ↑Thu Apr 03, 2025 9:44 am
I climbed Labyrinth yesterday. Not sure if I’ll do a TR. My partner and I attempted to summit from that north notch and failed. We made it about 50 ft up and within 100ft or so of the summit. But the tricky moves did not relent. It was a lot of mantling on loose rock. The downclimbing was sketchy. I think you could get up it at low-mid 5th but you would want to wrap a horn with some webbing and rappel to get back down.
We lucked out on conditions. Supportable booting but deep skiing. Prob maxed out at about 50deg in the couloir.
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Wow, gotta love San Juan skiing--looks amazing! And thank you for the info
