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5/24/2019
Route: Northwest Ridge/Slope
Posted On: 5/24/2019, By: SolarAlex
Info: Road was melting fast to the turn off to little french. My guess is its snow free in another day or 2. From little french, skinnable to 13200' . The creek is covered still. The skiing is about as good as it gets up there right now. Only thing is that the latest storm appeared to bring in a dust layer from the SW that made things grabby lower down. 
5/10/2019
Route: Northwest Ridge/Slope
Posted On: 5/10/2019, By: eskermo
Info: A little over a mile of mostly dry road until you can put skins/snowshoes on at the Little French Gulch junction. There's now a skin track from that point up to where it joins the NW ridge around 11,800'. You can skin a ways after that but it was eventually easier to boot up. I dropped my board off around 13,200' before it got too boney. There are some serious cornices on the final, flatter push to the summit, and on the summit itself. Excellent powder on the upper ridge and all the way down the gully for about 2,600' vertical of continuous riding! 
4/20/2019
Route: Northwest Ridge/Slope
Posted On: 4/23/2019, By: SurfNTurf
Info: Road was dry to the trailhead parking area. Intermittent snow and dry (read: mud) for the first 1.3 miles until the lefthand turnoff (very easy to miss). Solid snowshoe/skin track from there. I ditched snowshoes around treeline and booted up the NW slope, which never got steeper than 30 degrees. I used an ice ax and microspikes for most of the ascent. Hopped rocks for the last 200 feet to the ridge, where the summit was only a short walk away. Mind the cornices. Wonderful glissade most of the way down, not quite steep enough to get up enough speed for anything more than a leisurely slide. 
4/14/2019
Route: Northwest Ridge/Slope
Posted On: 4/16/2019, By: Giant hills
Info: Road to split was plowed. Make sure to take notice because a tall snowbank blocks the Y in the road. From there snowshoes needed. Went straight up the bowl wore snowshoes until upper face. Ditched them and went straight up it and just rock hopped to summit. Would've been easier to take ridge. Didn't use traction of any sort. Took ridge down back to snowshoe stash didn't use traction but would've been nice. Did a nice sloppy snowboard descent.The bowl had awesome snow minus a few hard spots here or there. Buddy dropped in maybe 100-200ft from summit. I did a few hundred feet lower. Snow in trees was amazing.nice and consolidated with a few inches of powder layer on top. 
4/7/2019
Route: Northwest Ridge/Slope
Posted On: 4/7/2019, By: Madison08
Info: We took the NW gully instead of the ridge. Gully was in perfect condition with consolidated snow. Snowshoes are a must for the junction of the road to the gully. Traction is also recommended as the ridge is completely wind loaded with very hard snow/ice. Beautiful route and should be for the next 1-2 weeks. 
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10/28/2018
Route: North Ridge
Posted On: 10/28/2018, By: nedryarson
Info: Wore microspikes starting at the turnoff to Little French Gulch. There was a nice trench all the way to just past tree line. Brought snowshoes but never went to the trouble to put them on as postholing sections were fairly short. We never found an obvious turnoff to gain the Northwest ridge so we opted to take the North ridge instead. Winds were absolutely fierce once we reached the last 500 feet of the ridge. 40-50mph sustained with no breaks. That part of the day flat out sucked. About 4.5 hours car to car. 
5/13/2018
Route: Northwest Ridge/Slope
Posted On: 5/13/2018, By: AlexeyD
Info: Snow starts at Little French Gulch turnoff and is still mostly continuous from there, but lower sections are starting to melt out. Main NW gully is filled in nicely, continuous snow to about 13,150'. Summit ridge is talus with the usual big cornice on climbers right. Began ski descent around 1 PM under mostly cloudy skies with light snow showers. First few hundred feet were a little crusty/grabby, but quickly transitioned to 1500 feet of perfect corn. Lower sections were sloppy as expected, but still able to ride back out to the junction without significant pole pushing or postholing. Beautiful Sunday, had the mountain completely to ourselves. 
5/5/2018
Route: South East Ridge
Posted On: 5/5/2018, By: Col_Forbin
Info: Road is blocked by snow drifts 2.5 miles after the sign for Georgia pass, adding an additional 5 mile approach. Carried and used snowshoes, crampons and ice axe. 
3/11/2018
Route: Northwest Ridge/Slope
Posted On: 3/12/2018, By: psg188
Info: Road to the trailhead starting to melt out, but there's still some hard-packed snow on the road and at the parking lot. 4WD recommended, but snow tires probably not necessary. Trail was hard-packed until the turn up French Gully, then pretty soft. Overall the climbing was good, but long. Snowshoes with ascender bar or skis highly recommended, was warm enough that spikes didn't do much good. 
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1/24/2018
Route: Northwest Ridge/Slope
Posted On: 1/24/2018, By: Trotter
Info: Continuous skiable snow from parking lot until the first part of the ridge about 11,800. Past that is windblown rocks. The road from the parking lot is well packed snow, no snowshoes needed until you turn off on the trail to French Gulch, snowshoes are very much needed until you gain the ridge. Even with snowshoes I was sliding all over and sinking calf deep in some places. Trail is well packed by skiers until ~11,600. Past that there is no trench, but there is a couple hundred feet of 3 feet deep pure powder, even with snowshoes I was postholing to thighs. Past that, its mixed snow and rock. I dropped my snowshoes and axe at that point. The final summit push is annoying, its about 2 inches of powder snow on rocks, and acts like powdered graphite. Very slippery, but too shallow snow and too rocky for spikes to do any good. I'd wait till the snow consolidates before attempting this one again. Wind was roaring on summit, be careful up there, a lot of cornices. 
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6/24/2017
Route: Northwest Ridge/Slope
Posted On: 6/24/2017, By: majtytom
Info: Essentially in summer conditions. Any remnants of snow do not pose a problem. Quite solid, if needed to be crossed without microspikes, crampons, etc. SW ridge to French Pass is in even better conditions than NW one. 
6/18/2017
Route: Northwest Ridge/Slope
Posted On: 6/18/2017, By: Grover
Info: Same conditions as reported yesterday. I hiked cleanly to the apron of the inset couloir, then after that, it was a crampon cruise to the upper ridge. IN MY OPINION, I would pass on skiing/riding this line right now, unless you are hellbent on skiing/riding past June 18. I've done this line before via splitboard and I would wait till next season. Not enough bang for the buck at this time. 
5/24/2017
Route: Northwest Ridge/Slope
Posted On: 5/25/2017, By: KyleS
Info: Fierce winds blew directly up the northwest slope all morning, scouring any loose snow and packing down anything left. Had to practically crawl across the summit ridge. Considered dropping the northeast side (Swan Dive) instead, but after watching 2 separate wind slabs rip loose on the northeast face of Baldy across the valley, we resigned to skiing back down the way we came. Breakable crust with sastrugi texture. 
5/22/2017
Route: Northwest Ridge/Slope
Posted On: 5/22/2017, By: SolarAlex
Info: phenomenal ski conditions up there right now. Dry to the little french gulch turnoff, and then skinable all the way up. In a half dozen times riding this peak, this was by far the best conditions I've seen it in. About 7 miles 3000' vert 
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4/30/2017
Route: Northwest Ridge/Slope
Posted On: 4/30/2017, By: AlexeyD
Info: Skied from about 13,200' to about 0.1 mile from TH via the gully route. Skinned from the TH in the AM, and broke trail the whole way starting from treeline in Little French Gulch. Fantastic spring powder conditions for the entire upper 2000'; mashed potatoes below treeline by early afternoon, but OK in the shade. Road section is melting out pretty quickly. As other reports have mentioned, winds were pretty ferocious on the mountain today, especially on the upper face and summit ridge, but the skiing was still top-notch for late April!