Huron Peak

Route: Northwest Slopes
Posted On: 7/12/2026, By: mikelight77
Info: Perfect trail the whole way up and perfect day. Weather was excellent. My son and I were the first ones up starting at about 5 AM. My 2nd 14er, his 1st.
The road to the trailhead is hairy (for me, a flat lander), but made it with no issues in a Chevy 1500 Trail Boss.

The trail is very easy to follow 98% of the way and only some spots near the summit in the rocks… you have to stop and look around for a second.

Views at the top are amazing. Very little smoke smell or haze today. 

Route: Southwest Slopes
Posted On: 7/3/2026, By: nikitalbot
Info: We picked this route over the standard route to have more of a challenge. We would absolutely NOT recommend this route … of the 4.5 miles to the top, there is MAYBE 1.5 miles of defined trail that was still incredibly easy to lose. The last parts are a make-your-own trail. It is also not maintained, like mentioned, so plan to be constantly going over/under downed trees. We definitely got the challenges we were looking for (and more!). We went down the NE side because we couldn’t imagine going back down the saddle approach. I would recommend downloading the GPS onto multiple devices and to constantly check it. 

Route: Northwest Slopes
Posted On: 7/1/2026, By: Bobak Radbin
Info: Completely snow-free from trailhead to summit. The trail is in excellent condition and very easy to follow the entire way. I parked before the creek crossing, which added about 1.5 miles round trip, making the hike about 10 miles total for me. It took me 3 hours 30 minutes to reach the summit and 5 hours 44 minutes round trip. Weather was beautiful with clear skies, only a little smoke in the distance from the Willow Fire, but it did not impact the hike. One of the most scenic and enjoyable 14ers I’ve done so far. 

Route: Northwest Slopes
Posted On: 6/27/2026, By: Cruiser
Info: Road to the th in spicy subaruable condition. No drama in the rubicon. Trail is in excellent shape through the woods but folks are definitely cross cutting some switchbacks which sux. A little trail braiding though the basin primarily to avoid a couple of seemingly insignificant muddy areas. No snow to contend with anywhere on the route. Overall the trail is in excellent shape and was easy for us to follow in the dark this morning. Super super windy above treeline today which made things a little brisk before sunrise. It was like when your checked bag is over fifty pounds and you have to wear as many of your clothes as you can to avoid the over weight charge. 

Route: Northwest Slopes
Posted On: 6/20/2026, By: flintel
Info: Made it to the upper 4WD trailhead in my Crosstrek, but had some very close calls, could have chosen better lines. Great conditions (see kmochel's update), the wildflowers in the basin above 12,100' are blooming right now, beautiful views. 

Route: Northwest Slopes
Posted On: 6/20/2026, By: kmochel
Info: Awesome conditions on Huron yesterday. No snow on the trail, although in the valley between treeline and the mountain just a few very small icy patches early in the morning that were melted on decent. No need for spikes, just watch your footing and easily avoidable. Surprised for perfect weather that more people were not on the trail.

Road from the 2wd to upper 4wd - creek flow was lower than normal and high clearance vehicle suggested - but still saw a few subies in the upper 4wd parking area. 

Route: Northwest Slopes
Posted On: 6/7/2026, By: theolubke
Info: Great conditions. A few patches of ice on the trail early due to overnight freezing of streams of melt water that drain down the trail. Lots of people and dogs plus 2 mountain goats enjoying the trail today. 

Route: Up Standard, down E Face
Posted On: 6/6/2026, By: slawrence2011
Info: Huron is in great shape, almost summer conditions. I managed to squeak an East Face ski descent down to 11,8 with a lot of walking on Talus and sketchy downclimbing a melted out spot about 200 ft down the col. The South ridge looks like it will have a more continuous line.

I hid my car keys at the 2WD Lake Ann trailhead, and couldn't find them after 8 hours of searching including 1 hour with a metal detector. Did anyone happen to grab them? 

Route: Northwest Slopes
Posted On: 6/4/2026, By: aambrosi123
Info: A few patches of snow and ice that are very easy to avoid/tiptoe through, otherwise clear. 

Route: Northwest Slopes
Posted On: 6/3/2026, By: jgregory
Info: The road going up to the upper trailhead was passable in a truck or Jeep, but I was very close to scraping my half-ton truck in one or two spots. We didn't use microspikes and were just fine. Very small amounts of snow that are easy to cross. 

Route: East couloir
Posted On: 5/26/2026, By: ericahlstedt
Info: We skied this dropping at 1030am today. Thanks to geckser/arthurspiderman for posting about it. Cloudy day. Nice and creamy/soft surface. Top 1500 ft is fairly filled in and I'd bet would be in another week or two. Parts of the couloir are peppered with small rocks, old avalanche debris was also soft. Can sorta make it back to Lois lake of via discontinuous snow patches. I kept my sneakers on for the whole ascent and switched to ski boots on the summit.
More discontinuous snow after lois lake still goes down to 11300ish, then a short bushwhack to get back to Clohesy lake and the car

We drove up to Clohesy lake in the AM, that road is rough, definitely want high clearance 4wd for it, saves about 1000ft and 5 mi RT of road walking. 

Route: East Couloir
Posted On: 5/24/2026, By: Geckser
Info: Arthurspiderman and I skied the East Couloir on Huron peak today. The line goes from the summit, but likely not for long! A great objective that I have wanted to check off for a while. If anyone on the summit got any photos of Arthur or I dropping, we would love to see them.

We started this morning near Clohsey Lake where we camped. Beautiful lake, beautiful night! We started around 5:50, we bushwhacked through the forest until we came to a clearing at 11,500. From there we followed intermittent snow to the base of the couloir, easily done in runners.

We confirmed the East Couloir was probably in from the base and booted up the large snowy bowl to the North connecting with main trail. We summited around 8:15 and we shared the summit with a lot of nice folks. Snow was still hard so we waited about 45 minutes to drop.

Top of the couloir had good coverage till the choke ~400 feet down. There was a lot of rocks in this section and care was required. Generally snow was soft and supportable throughout. What an awesome line though it may not be in even next week.

There are some beautiful, less technical lines a bit South of the true summit and these will hold snow for a while longer. A party that went up yesterday got some good looking turns off that sub summit. We followed that party's tracks down to 11,200 where we swapped to runners and did the rest of the uneventful deproach.

Great day in a great Sawatch skiing zone. You can definitely feel the end of the season approaching but still good turns to be had. 

Route: Northwest Slopes
Posted On: 5/25/2026, By: tlgold1990
Info: Snowfield outside of tree line to cross, saw a few post holes. Then some snow on the switch backs leading to the ridge and summit. Made it without microspikes but would have required less effort. Used spikes and poles on the way down, still slid a few times, nothing crazy though. Saw a few people get away without spikes going down. 

Route: Northwest Slopes
Posted On: 5/16/2026, By: PilotDoggo
Info: Gorgeous first solo 14er. Car camped about 1.8 miles below the trailhead since the night before some snowpack on the trails scared me outta continuing up the 4WD road. Speaking of that road, pretty much everything melted by the time I made it back to my car, so it's very accessible to get to the TH for parking now! Since I started super early (5:15 at the TH) everything was frozen, including some of the mud prints, and as such the flat 0.25 mile snowfield crossing was completely solid both going up and coming down. I was SHOCKED to not have to put on microspikes, not even once, since the (small) sections of snowdrift on the trail were so solid/not angled that it wasn't worth my time to traction up. There was less routefinding than I expected on the last 0.5ish miles (from what I read on reviews), although it was steeper than I anticipated. Wind was calm and overhead weather was great, plus I had the summit all to myself! Only saw 2 other groups of people and a lone moose, in one of the valley's ponds, as I made my way back to my Nissan by 10:30. 

Route: Southwest Slopes
Posted On: 5/10/2026, By: Augie
Info: Some snow below tree line got very packed in and icy as day went on. solid amount of snow on ridge up to top traction recommended. only post holed once or twice on the way down on the face.