Condition Update | Mt. Lindsey

Peak:	Mt. Lindsey
Route:	Northwest Gully
Range:	Sangre de Cristo
Posted By:	the_hare
Date of Info:	3/13/2026
Date Posted:	3/14/2026

Condition Update
Big thanks to previous parties for the trench. Also thanks to the early spring heat the last snow has significantly melted out. Road to TH is mostly packed snow w stretches of crusty ice and bare ground. The trench/ morning melt crust held up well even thru noon and I didn't need to put on snowshoes until around 11000. Previous folks had snowshoed up the gully from 11,100ft on up to the basin & I followed without issue, no concerns w snow stability seen all day. At the upper basin it was getting towards the heat of the day so I skipped between tundra islands to get to the final push to the saddle with the waiver sign. Higher winds came with the current high-pressure weather ridge and for that reason I opted to take the mostly sheltered gully. Halfway up I wish I had taken the ridge and just dealt with the wind. There is so much loose rock and gravel waiting to explode underfoot & snow traverses had poor quality, either loose or very slick faceted wind slab. In the upper basin on the descent I linked up a system of snowfields and gullies. The sun had just set and the wind-crust held well on snowshoes after the day's warmth. This was a lot of fun and very cool to travel through the wind sculptures around the boulders. The snow quality below treeline had deteriorated over the day but not so bad that I was postholing often in snowshoes, really only if I accidentally stepped off the frozen trench. I tried mitigating the snow slushiness by timing my descent to after sunset, that worked pretty well I think but I got back to my car at 10pm. I found and carried out a nice ice axe I think dropped by a party that went up over the last couple days, message me a description & we can work out getting it back to you!

Condition Update

Big thanks to previous parties for the trench. Also thanks to the early spring heat the last snow has significantly melted out. Road to TH is mostly packed snow w stretches of crusty ice and bare ground. The trench/ morning melt crust held up well even thru noon and I didn't need to put on snowshoes until around 11000.

Previous folks had snowshoed up the gully from 11,100ft on up to the basin & I followed without issue, no concerns w snow stability seen all day. At the upper basin it was getting towards the heat of the day so I skipped between tundra islands to get to the final push to the saddle with the waiver sign.

Higher winds came with the current high-pressure weather ridge and for that reason I opted to take the mostly sheltered gully. Halfway up I wish I had taken the ridge and just dealt with the wind. There is so much loose rock and gravel waiting to explode underfoot & snow traverses had poor quality, either loose or very slick faceted wind slab.

In the upper basin on the descent I linked up a system of snowfields and gullies. The sun had just set and the wind-crust held well on snowshoes after the day's warmth. This was a lot of fun and very cool to travel through the wind sculptures around the boulders.

The snow quality below treeline had deteriorated over the day but not so bad that I was postholing often in snowshoes, really only if I accidentally stepped off the frozen trench. I tried mitigating the snow slushiness by timing my descent to after sunset, that worked pretty well I think but I got back to my car at 10pm.

I found and carried out a nice ice axe I think dropped by a party that went up over the last couple days, message me a description & we can work out getting it back to you!