1/26/2025 Route: Rosalie Group Posted On: 1/26/2025, By: Will_E Info: Rosalie, Epaulie and Epaulet today, from Deer Creek. Road was in good shape, no issues getting to the trailhead. Bathroom at the campground is open and had nice TP, felt like Angel Soft. Trail was well trenched until around 2.5 miles in, I put snowshoes on there. Trench from there exists, but comes and goes a little, where I needed to break trail it was on the easy side. Left snowshoes at the highest tree I encountered, no traction needed up high today. Cold and blustery in the morning, views opened up in the afternoon. Wind was moderate today, maybe 15-20 mph. |
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6/17/2024 Route: Tour de Abyss Posted On: 6/24/2024, By: sarahmariekirk Info: Climbed the Tour de Abyss + Epaulet + Epaulie yesterday. Conditions up Bierstadt's East Ridge were fantastic, along with the full traverse over to Blue Sky. Stayed ridge direct along the length of the Sawtooth, as the sides are still snow-covered and rather steep. The climbing along the ridge was exposed but solid and fun, I would say this was mostly class 3 and class 4 throughout. We stayed high along Mount Blue Sky ridge, finally properly topping out on the West Peak of Blue Sky and then the tourist-filled actual summit of Blue Sky. I hoofed it onto Epaulet and Epaulie since they were at the 13,300 junction where we parked, this added about an hour round-trip onto the day. Very easy peaks, class 1-2 trail the entire way and mostly runnable. Fantastic 360-degree views! |
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10/2/2023 Route: Climbed Roger/Warren/Epaulet from Summit Lake Posted On: 10/2/2023, By: L1zzz1ee Info: A dusty of snow on the peaks but it snowed and blustered at me half of the day. I took the ridge from the parking lot for Rogers and Warren the traverse down to the road due to the wind. Continued on the road with a few cuts up to Epaulet. Road closed from Summit Lake to the Mount Evans summit. Saw a jackrabbit. Only 700 more 13ers yay! |
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10/2/2023 Route: Climbed Roger/Warren/Epaulet from Summit Lake Posted On: 10/3/2023, By: L1zzz1ee Info: A dusty of snow on the peaks but it snowed and blustered at me half of the day. I took the ridge from the parking lot for Rogers and Warren the traverse down to the road due to the wind. Continued on the road with a few cuts up to Epaulet. Road closed from Summit Lake to the Mount Evans summit. Saw a jackrabbit. Only 700 more 13ers yay! |
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7/3/2023 Route: Rosalie Group Posted On: 7/3/2023, By: cdgibbons Info: The most direct route was chock full of snow, so I took an ascending traverse to the east on a grass ledge. Likely the easiest route anyway. On the return, you can skirt the summit on these same ledges and not gain much elevation. Epaulie summit is a series of stacked blocks in different places; hard to tell which is highest. |
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11/12/2022 Route: Rosalie Group Posted On: 11/12/2022, By: SionaRW35 Info: Brought spikes and only used them for only 10 minutes on the Tanglewood trail up Rosalie. Snowshoes definitely not needed. Epaulie had a couple minor snowfields but most was avoidable if you paid attention. |
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11/12/2022 Route: Rosalie Group Posted On: 11/13/2022, By: kwhit24 Info: Started off at Deer Creek TH up the Tanglewood Trail. There is enough snow and ice that if we had come back down this way we would've used micros but early in the morning neither micros nor gaiters were need. The trail is easy to follow up to the saddle so we made good time which is at just under 12,000'. After the trail the rest is just picking your way up. Not too much that could be avoided for the most part. At Rosalie summit we met up with some other hikers doing the same route, so we all picked our way to Epaulie and Epaulet. At this point we didn't really feel like summiting Epaulie and Rosalie to get back to the Tanglewood Trail and I prefer not doing out and backs if there is a loop option, so we picked a path down the southwest slope towards the Rosalie Trail. Once we got to the tree line the trail was difficult to find because of the snow but we joined up with it around 11,200'. The rest of the way down was ankle deep snow and ice towards the bottom but we never put on micros. For reference the out and back would've been 15.2 miles and 5,934' so the route description is a little off on distance. (15.87 mi; 5,174' gain; 8:54:56 total time) Start at TH 7:10am; Rosalie Peak 10:35am; “Epaulie” 11:40am; Epaulet Mtn 12:20pm; Back to TH 4:05pm |
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11/21/2021 Route: Rosalie Group Posted On: 11/22/2021, By: Carl_Healy Info: Nothing but a dusting of snow on the trail. A bit more snow above treeline, and some isolated drifts here and there, but easily avoidable or not that deep. Brought microspikes and gaiters but didn't need either. |
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7/16/2021 Route: Rosalie Group Posted On: 7/16/2021, By: angry Info: Summer conditions. |
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6/5/2021 Route: Rosalie Group Posted On: 6/5/2021, By: daway8 Info: Patchy snow from Rosalie to Epaulie then steep, solid snow creates a challenge for the last hundred feet or so. Might have been able to make use of crampons/ice axe but went instead with some class 3 scrambling on exposed rock which I blundered into a couple unintentional class 4 moves. You can also circle a bit of preferred to hit easier terrain. |
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6/4/2020 Route: Chicago Lakes Posted On: 6/4/2020, By: MC.Ikema Info: No traction carried and wouldn't have used if carried. Ascended via Chicago Lakes and Mt. Evans road. Traverse to Rosalie and Rosalie summit appeared snow free. |
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5/17/2019 Route: Rosalie Group Posted On: 5/17/2019, By: WildWanderer Info: No traction was needed from Rosalie to saddle and most of the way to Epaulie. Ice axe and crampons were helpful the last 50-75 feet to the summit, and especially on the way down. I'd recommend summiting to the left of small rock ridge, as the snow is much steeper than it looks on the right. |
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6/5/2017 Route: from Summit Lake Posted On: 6/5/2017, By: C-Shepguy Info: General conditions for the Evans group. Pretty good area to stretch the legs, and the lungs for this season while lots of mountains are still a bit snow-sloggy. I parked at Summit Lake, walked up the closed section of road to the ridge, and hiked up Epaulet and Epaulie. 70% dry and the snow patches you have to cross are not huge or deep. You wouldn't want spikes or snowshoes. Also, Warren and Rogers looked similar, plenty of dry terrain to stroll up. Spalding looked liked the exception, with a bunch of snow still from what I could see. Couple skiers were still finding some decent lines on Evans north side, but that is drying up also, probably can't get a continuous line of more than 500 vert at this point. |
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6/28/2016 Route: Rosalie Group Posted On: 6/29/2016, By: JasonKline Info: The small amount of snow was easily avoidable. Summer conditions. |
