11/11/2013 Route: East Slopes Posted On: 11/12/2013, By: ahrendse Info: Crusted snow a couple inches deep on parts of the trail leading to the Peerless/Horseshoe saddle. Some shallow and avoidable snow on the east slopes. Spikes/snowshoes not necessary. Image 1- ridge to Horseshoe Mountain. Image 2- looking towards Peerless, Sheridan and Sherman. |
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6/16/2013 Route: East Slopes Posted On: 6/17/2013, By: sevenvii Info: Went up to do Horseshoe via the Boudoir, but the bottom 30-40 feet were melted out and it looked like miserable scree. Instead I opted to do the East slopes route, and then on to Peerless and Sheridan. |
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4/21/2012 Route: Boudoir Couloir Posted On: 4/21/2012, By: Alby426 Info: Today, 4-21-12, we had the intention of climbing Boudoir Couloir but, we had to bail because the bottom end is drying out and is starting to be nothing but scree. |
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12/18/2011 Route: Standard(?) Posted On: 12/18/2011, By: jeremy27 Info: I climbed up the Horseshoe/Peerless saddle, summited Horseshoe, back to the saddle, summited Peerless, over to the Peerless/Sheridan saddle and back down to the road. Microspikes were helpful, but not necessary. Ice axe and snowshoes were not necessary. Hard wind slabs and occassional soft drifts - most were avoidable. Sheridan looked doable but I didnt have the energy. Good luck. |
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6/4/2011 Route: Boudoir Couloir Posted On: 6/5/2011, By: SurfNTurf Info: We hit the base of the couloir shortly before 6 a.m. and topped out at 7:20. During that period, the snow was completely frozen. We didn‘t punch through once. There were kicked steps starting about 2/3 of the way up, which we gladly used. There is a huge cornice on top of Horseshoe. If it were to fall, the debris may reach the bottom section of the couloir. But after you‘re about halfway up the climb angles left and you‘re out of danger. Lengthy glissade down the standard route from the Horseshoe-Peerless saddle. Great conditions for it at 1 p.m (we added Finnback Knob, Peerless and Sheridan). After that, the posthole nightmare begins, even in snowshoes. I‘d suggest saving weight and going without the damn things. On the way out, at about 1:30, we did look back and notice some recent wet slide activity on the east face. A portion of the cornice appeared to have fallen. There was also evidence of rock fall (including one giant path straight through the center of Boudoir). Start early! |
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5/30/2011 Route: Boudoir couloir Posted On: 5/30/2011, By: sdkeil Info: We parked at 11,200, right below the Leavick townsite. We were on snow the entire way to the base of the couloir, however we had a nice hard freeze and snowshoes remained on our pack for the entire approach. The bottom 1/3 and top 1/3 of the couloir were in perfect condition, whereas the middle 1/3 still had some small pockets of unconsolidated snow. There were some good glisades off the standard route for our descent, however when we hit tree-line the snow turned to mashed potatoes and snowshoes were needed. Even with them on, we still did some occasional post-holing. |
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3/26/2011 Route: Standard from Four Mile Posted On: 3/27/2011, By: emcee smith Info: The road was snow blown from about 1 mile down from Leavick. Large drift to climb over when exiting the main road to the left (about 1 mile up from Leavick). Snowshoes seemed a must until tree line, then microspikes were fine. Seems possible to avoid most/all snowfields above tree line but would add distance and elevation. |
