4/8/2023 Route: Southeast Ridge Posted On: 4/10/2023, By: ellenmseb Info: skied from 13k. need to take skis off to cross a bunch of dirt humps traversing from guanella pass. staying lower would be better |
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3/19/2023 Route: Southeast Ridge Posted On: 3/20/2023, By: drop_bear Info: Used snowshoes from the pass up until around 13,000. From there to the summit it was windblown. The snow was pretty good quality, there were only a handful of brief post-holing instances in my snowshoes through some willows, otherwise it was supportive. |
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11/20/2022 Route: Southeast Ridge Posted On: 11/20/2022, By: Hiking_TheRockies Info: Trail is covered with snow up to the lake. Once you start up the mountain, the trail is about 50% snow, 50% dry. Microspikes were moderately useful but not necessary. We did not use floatation. |
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11/19/2022 Route: Southeast Ridge Posted On: 11/19/2022, By: swilson753 Info: A lot more snow than we expected - 4-6" over most of the area with more in the willows. Bring flotation - we didn't and spent a couple hours postholing through the willows before turning around at the lake. Beautiful day out there! |
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10/28/2022 Route: Southeast Ridge Posted On: 10/31/2022, By: coopergould Info: Broke trail in the AM, no one had been up there since before the storm. Consistent ~8" of snow until breaking off the South Park Trail to gain the ridge, where I tried to link up wind blown tundra patches. Worked well with the occasional mandatory snow crossing that would have me post holing past my knee. Initially planned to go for Argentine but decided the juice wasn't worth the squeeze Wore gators the whole day and spikes from lake to summit and back |
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10/22/2022 Route: Wilcox, Argentine, Square Top Lolly Pop Loop Posted On: 10/22/2022, By: Carl_Healy Info: This condition update might be kinda useless, since there's some snow bearing down on this peak in the hours following this post. Pretty much entirely dry from Silver Dollar Lake trailhead summit. No traction needed |
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10/9/2022 Route: Southeast Ridge Posted On: 10/9/2022, By: ryansunshine20 Info: Most snow and ice avoidable. Lots of people going to silver dollar lake and almost no one going to the peak. |
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9/8/2022 Route: Southeast Ridge Posted On: 9/12/2022, By: derekesq Info: Trail is in great condition - even after the lake there is a trail, and the trail goes all the way to the first false summit/ridge. the route outline is right about false summits - they just keep coming. |
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8/27/2022 Route: Southeast Ridge Posted On: 8/27/2022, By: nyker Info: Entire route is dry although in the early morning the first mile or so had some icy patches on the rocks and logs. Some minor snow fell across the way on Bierstadt but nothing on square top. |
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7/30/2022 Route: Wilcox, Argentine, Square Top Lolly Pop Loop Posted On: 7/31/2022, By: CheapCigarMan Info: Did Lolly Pop in the reverse order, started with Square Top Mountain. Easy trail to the lake. Took slope with easy talus up to the saddle. Beautiful area with scenic lakes. |
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7/22/2022 Route: From Silver Dollar TH Posted On: 7/22/2022, By: madmattd Info: Ascended the first, and shallowest, gully from the top of the switchbacks as the trees open up around 11,600'. Went up a steep short grass gully to a small knob, traversed that (bear right to avoid the willows), and ascended the obvious main gully from there. Mostly steep tundra, with a short steep bit at the very top of the ridge. From there, followed the ridge to the summit, it looked worse than it was. Maybe I mixed a few 2+/3- moves in there, but probably avoidable if one cares. |
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7/10/2022 Route: From Argentine Pass TH Posted On: 7/13/2022, By: NotTimid Info: Summer conditions! No snow along the slope up to Argentine Pass (or anywhere along the route). |
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6/13/2022 Route: Southeast Ridge Posted On: 6/13/2022, By: pcsongei Info: Pretty much summer conditions. A few small snow patches here and there but easily avoidable. Smokey this morning and a bit windy but I think the wind cleared out the smoke. The Guanella Pass area was much more clear on my drive out |
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5/16/2022 Route: Silver Dollar TH Posted On: 5/16/2022, By: kwhit24 Info: Left TH at 7am. We wanted to head straight up to the ridge but found soft snow early in the trees. So we followed the road/trail toward the lakes looking for a good spot to head with too much postholing (especially so early. More on that to follow). Followed the road/trail on dirt or good hard pack snow (this snow on trail was also good on the way down at 11:30) for 1.4 miles. Just about where Naylor Lake comes into view. From here we head up rocks, bushes, and snow to the ridge. This was the only part we used microspikes for. There is snow on the upper ridge but we didn't need them up or down. After a 15 min break on top we left at 10am. After getting back down to the ridge (around 12,800') we saw a good route down to Silver Dollar Lake which worked out and we met up with the nice trail after walking some rocks and grass. What we didn't see was around the corner the next .75 mile was on and off postholing for the next 30 min until we met up with the original spot where we had left the trail in the morning. Snowshoes may have helped here After that we were back in the trees on the dirt or hard pack snow back to TH by noon |
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5/6/2022 Route: Southeast Ridge Posted On: 5/6/2022, By: jmanner Info: Skied one of the north chutes today, it goes from the summit but youve got to billygoat a little. |
