| Peak: | La Plata Peak |
| Route: | Northwest Ridge |
| Range: | Sawatch |
| Posted By: | AlexeyD |
| Date of Info: | 5/15/2016 |
| Date Posted: | 5/15/2016 |
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Made a rather futile (considering the forecast) attempt on LP this morning. On and off snow to ~10.5k, then continuous snow. Good trench to winter turnoff, from there it rapidly degenerates into a horrendous posthole mess. Made it to about 11.3 before deciding brunch sounded like a better idea (also it was dumping snow at this point). There was really no more visible trench beyond our turnaround point. On the way back, we explored a bit up the main trail going up the creek bed. This seemed to have seen some recent traffic, but appears to go toward Sayres and not the LP summer trail. FWIW, parts of the summer trail are now visible on the sides of the NW ridge (see photo), but given the state of the snowpack I wouldn't want to be on those slopes. EDIT: For the curious skiers out there: can't say I got a very good look at the North Face. However, there does appear to be a continuous line on one of the gullies on the west face, all the way down into La Plata Gulch - would be about a 3000' vert continuous line off the summit. Just throwing that out there. I think it would go something like this: http://www.hillmap.com/m/ag1zfmhpbGxtYXAtaGRychULEghTYXZlZE1hcBiAgICwpKzjCQw |
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