Dyer Mountain

Route: Southwest Ridge
Posted On: 4/7/2021, By: adamorsubtractem
Info: Do NOT attempt to drive past the Iowa Gulch winter closure. The snow seems great before 7am, but quickly becomes unsupportive. I only made it 0.5 miles before getting stuck. I started my way up Iowa Gulch around 8:30am. I was able to stay on top of the snow during the approach. Instead of making my way around to the Southeast slopes, I decided to just straight-line it up the Southwest Ridge. (Route shown in orange). I opted to put my snowshoes on after ascending to the top of the ridge. Snow on the ridge was patchy, but often deep. I made it over to Dyer and only sank in once or twice with the snowshoes on. I was exhausted from trying to dig the 4Runner out, so my total time up was around 2.5 hours. The snow was soft and heavy on the descent, so I took my snowshoes off and just stomp-stepped down. I followed more of the SE slopes route on the way down, but veered more south to avoid some of the deepest snow. By the time I reached Iowa Gulch road, I had to throw the snowshoes back on. There were sections so soft by noon that I fell through even with the snowshoes on. Total length (parking 0.5 miles up the road) was 7.5 miles, total elevation was 2600', and total time was 4 hours. 

Route: Southeast Slopes
Posted On: 3/21/2021, By: k_fergie
Info: Plenty filled in for a good ski. Skinned from car to ~100 feet from summit. Skied (with lots of pushing/skating on the road) all the way back. Light was too flat to take any good pics (let alone ski, except by Braille). Dust on crust except in places where the wind was favorable, creamy pow turns from ~13500-12700 

Route: Southeast Slopes
Posted On: 2/23/2021, By: jscully205
Info: Decent coverage of snow right now; was able to skin from the Yurt parking area to within 20ft of the summit and ski back to the car. Some sharks but also some better turns than expected. Would recommend some type of flotation for up high along the ridge. Road to turn-off along power lines is walkable though. 

Route: Southeast Slopes
Posted On: 1/8/2021, By: graberz
Info: I Parked at winter closure. There are Snow machine tracks that have the road packed down to before the south face where the snow on the road stops. Two vehicles had made it one to two miles in but then one got stuck or something and they had to get help to turn around from the snowmobile guides. The snow resumes on the road towards the end of south face and snow shoes were necessary from there to the beginning of the ascent towards the ridge. You can go from rock pile to rock pile as the snow isn't continuous and thins out towards the top. The east face does have large snow fields. I did the ridge over to Gemini and it was passable to the north with less snow. Beautiful day with low wind. Thanks to the person who placed the cool summit log. 

Route: Southeast Slopes
Posted On: 12/26/2020, By: HikesInGeologicTime
Info: Gate open at 2B, but the only vehicles I saw past the normal closure were Jeeps and an ATV with special treads. Road mostly bootable up until ~1/2 mile before its end, where snow was punch crusted in the morning and mush of the sort you'd expect to find in March in the afternoon. We played Connect-the-Dots with rock patches up Dyer's slopes until we reached the ridge to further minimize an already fairly low risk of triggering an avalanche. Snow cover was so thin that I questioned whether the snowshoes we wore were absolutely necessary; on the way down, after descending the ridge, I realized that the answer to my question was, “Yes, unless you're super enthusiastic about postholing in not-infrequent deeper sections.” Used microspikes descending the ridge. Not strictly necessary if you've got good balance, but they made the going a little easier. 

Route: From Sherman
Posted On: 11/5/2020, By: Thevirtualsherpa
Info: Sherman is dry and so is the traverse over to Dyer. Extremely minimal snow, brought the dog and trail runners no problem. This report will probably be irrelevant in two days, but there you have it. BTW: the traverse over to Dyer from Sherman is very straight forward and tops off at Class 2. A great way to do this mountain. 

Route: Southeast Slopes
Posted On: 10/12/2020, By: Unknown
Info: Dry to dyer, minor snow to gemini, and minor snow to sherman 

Route: West Ridge
Posted On: 9/26/2020, By: daway8
Info: Traverse from West Dyer to Dyer had no snow in the way at all. Very fun ridge line - depending on what line you pick you can easily find a lot of class 3 and 4 sections as well as some class 5 if you feel like it. Was somewhat windy but a lot of the more challenging sections are shielded from the wind. 

Route: Southeast Slopes
Posted On: 9/24/2020, By: dhagan
Info: Dry. 

Route: West Ridge
Posted On: 9/13/2020, By: gluckhikes
Info: Dyer Amphitheatre is mostly dry, but a good amount of snow between the rocks of the ridge. The upper ridge is broken by a couple gullies which now hold snow. I had to work below and around one of these notches before regaining the ridge to the summit. Great ridge, but definitely a little spicier right now. 

Route: Southeast Slopes
Posted On: 7/11/2020, By: durkan
Info: After descending Gemini with the pup, I ascended Dyer from the east ridge. Small snowfield to cross when ascending from the east, but was supportive even in the afternoon (poles stabbed thru, though). Descended Dyer on the SE slopes. All snow is avoidable if you cut down from the ridge sooner that what the .com shows. This ended my Horseshoe/Peerless/Sheridan/Sherman/Gemini/Dyer Loop. 

Route: Southeast Slopes
Posted On: 7/5/2020, By: mjflynn74
Info: Minimal snow in Iowa Amphitheatre, none on immediate route. 

Route: West Ridge
Posted On: 6/30/2020, By: mjflynn74
Info: From a hike of West Dyer: Some snow left in the Dyer Amphitheatre; none of it required traction. West ridge looked clear (see pic). 

Route: Southeast Slopes
Posted On: 6/6/2020, By: RickyDavis
Info: The southeast slopes are still covered in snow and the morning sun heats them up pretty quickly. Plan an early summit if you want to avoid postholing. 

Route: Southeast Slopes
Posted On: 5/16/2020, By: dwoodward13
Info: Dyer is in nice condition. I stuck to mostly snow from the Summer TH to the summit. You could probably stick to rock/dirt for 30% of the route if you wanted. Decent freeze overnight created nice supportive snow until the summit. Left winter closure at 530 and summited at 8. Headed down about 9 and snow was great for plunge stepping, but still a bit too hard/icy for any decent glissade. Brought but didn't use traction. Only used snowshoes on a portion of the road on the way down which was quickly turning into a mess in the mid morning heat.