Mt. Antero

Route: West Slopes
Posted On: 10/22/2011, By: msmith7361
Info: 4WD road up to the creek around 10,800 ft. is snow-free and only has small patches of ice - able to take Liberty Renegade to creek. About .25 miles above creek there is a long stretch of ice, but by noon much of it was melting and soft. On the zig-zags higher up, snow was predictably drifted on the North-facing sides, though hiking on the sides was not an issue. 

Route: West Slopes
Posted On: 10/22/2011, By: MOJO8800
Info: The first 3 miles of the 4wd road are almost free of snow, with a few icy spots. Just up from the junction / stream crossing, however, at about 11,000 feet, there is a long icy section that would not be fun in any vehicle. I parked just below this. Above tree line, long sections of the road are free of snow, but it gets a little deep approaching the ridge. I left the road, taking "option 1", and found the talus hopping fun and free of snow. I ascended via the ridge crest, but took the "old trail" down. The old trail was in good condition, and easy to follow, at least from this direction. Clear skies and little wind. Happy trails! 

Route: West Slopes
Posted On: 10/16/2011, By: RJansen77
Info: Climbed Antero today via the Baldwin Gulch 4wd road. Started from the bottom at 7am and summited at 10am. There were three vehicles (two Jeeps and a pickup) parked at the stream crossing around 10,850. Beyond this point there is ice on the road but enough rocks are poking through I imagine you could drive up with decent tires, though finding a parking spot would be another story. You would eventually be stopped maybe 1 mile (this is an approximation) after the road breaks through treeline by snow drifts on the road. These get up to 18 inches deep and there is one point where an ATV or some other 4wd vehicle clearly got stuck and had a fun time getting out a few days ago. I imagine that the road will be impassable beyond this point until next spring. Pretty easy walking on the road, brought the microspikes but didn‘t use them. 

Route: Baldwin Gultch
Posted On: 9/23/2011, By: ColoradoLawDobe
Info: Route is snow free even if you don‘t take the road up as far as it goes. However, hordes of ATVs were out and apparently if you don‘t give them the ENTIRE road they are rather testy about it. Both creek crossings were extremely easy as the water level is very low. 

Route: Little Browns Creek
Posted On: 9/17/2011, By: RJansen77
Info: We attempted Antero today from Little Browns Creek (note: do not confuse this with Browns Creek!) and got weathered off near the top of the 4wd road...or what I think was the top of the road, we couldn‘t see ANYTHING. It was snowing, pretty cold (upper 20‘s or low 30‘s) and winds gusting 35-40 mph, making for ZERO visibility. The snow ranged from non existent to close to knee deep in drifts depending on where you were, and the rocks were slick in places with ice. I imagine most of the snow will melt of with a sunny day or two, but today was a tough one up there, a true whiteout. 

Route: West Slopes
Posted On: 9/11/2011, By: Zaigon99
Info: Trail clear till around 12,500, then Icy with dusting of snow. Turned back at 13,000‘ as it seemed to get worse. 

Route: West Slopes
Posted On: 7/11/2011, By: iquack08
Info: Trail is completely snow-free. 

Route: West Slopes
Posted On: 6/30/2011, By: Matt Lemke
Info: Snow free. If you have a 4WD and are wishing to drive up to the 13,000 foot pass on the jeep trail that we walked there is one snow drift that will hold you up only about a quarter mile from the top. I also traversed to North Carbonate and descended into the Baldwin Lake drainage and Upper Baldwin Lake at elevation 12,089 is about 90 percent thawed. Beautiful lake with only a few snow patches around it. Road to Baldwin lake is snow free. Photos to come sometime in mid-late July in my big TR. 

Route: From Little Browns Creek
Posted On: 6/24/2011, By: shaunster_co
Info: Browns creek trailhead to Brown lake was awesome, cool and dry through the trees. From Browns Lake to the gulley of Mt White - up to Antero was dry and easy. There is some snow going up, but it can be avoided. No snow up to Antero. Tab & Shav looking good too - pics posted. Enjoy! Round trip mileage is roughly 22 miles. I think you can take the Colorado Trail veering right and go between Mt White & Antero to shave some mileage and time if you want to. We also drove a mile or so up the Baldwin Gulch road, didn‘t make it to the 12k point. We wanted to do the other route since we had already done this route. Looked pretty clear either way though. 

Route: From Little Browns Creek
Posted On: 6/20/2011, By: colokeith
Info: We did not summit Mt Antero, but we hiked in the Browns Creek area. The peak looked mostly clear from snow. Here is a pic from the Browns Creek Trail 

Route: West Slopes
Posted On: 6/7/2011, By: lackerstef
Info: There are mixes of snow and dry trail. I decided to go straight up a chute with micro-spikes and axe (still necessary for this climb). Took me roughly 5 hours to summit from TH (at 38.7100 -106.2443). On the way up, I avoided the switch backs and went straight up a chute. Here is a video of that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OYamsd-Cx4 . I spent a lot of time after reaching the south ridge (where you see a sign for Mt. Antero Trails again) debating which way to go and a lot of turning back because of the snow. It was much easier route finding on the way down since you could see the clear areas. To avoid snow, just stay high on the ridge towards Antero, but be careful as there is some exposure (not bad). I have posted some images to show conditions. 

Route: West Slopes
Posted On: 5/29/2011, By: mrschaible
Info: Route is clear of snow up till the 4wd trail head. From there, expect to post hole to tree line if you are not wearing snow shoes especially later in the day. We chose to climb directly up peak 13,800 once we exited tree line to avoid the snow as we did not have snow shoes. If you choose the road, you will have to cross many snow filled couloirs. We had only microspikes and the snow was quite hard in the morning and made the steep crossings sketchy. On the way down, the snow was soft enough to cross without a problem. We glisaded down the couloir on the return. This is a good spring route. We parked only .4 miles from the road and had a round trip of 11 miles with a time of 9 hours at a moderate pace. 

Route: West Couloir (Direct)
Posted On: 5/15/2011, By: Monster5
Info: Took the couloir immediately west of summit from the standard 2wd Baldwin trailhead. Total RT time of 10 hrs at a moderate pace. Good, easy snow, safe, and direct route at 10-11 mi round-trip. Good crampon snow in the morning, long glissade in the afternoon. Shallow snow with plenty of talus - no need to cross any suspect slopes or go near cornices, etc. A couple hundred feet of talus-hopping at the top. Patchy snow on road, large avy debris about halfway. Snowshoes were used only on the descent from the base of the lower couloir (below treeline) to the Baldwin Gulch 4wd sign/stream crossing. More pics: https://picasaweb.google.com/105978537438093356597/Antero5142011# 

Route: West Slopes
Posted On: 4/17/2011, By: Carl
Info: Road was almost entirely snow covered from the bottom at 9,400ft. Attached is a picture of the west face. As you can see the snow stops around 13,600ft. The only skiable lines from the summit are down the northeast face. Although they appear to all end in massive cliffs after about 500 vertical. We skied the northeast face a little, climbed back up, skied the north ridge to 13,600ft, and then hiked across the the west face back to the snow gully. 

Route: West Slopes
Posted On: 12/28/2010, By: shep
Info: 4 of us completed Antero on 12/27. Wore snowshoes from lower trailhead to about 13K. We took the 2nd prominent gully as you head south along the standard road/trail. Some avalanche danger but we thought manageable. We did hear a couple of "whoomps" on the way out. No natural slide activity seen in entire valley. Upper west slopes were talus and snow nightmare. Not much fun. Topped out in about 6 hours with total roundtrip of 9 hours. Good weather overall, but was chilly in the morning.