7/1/2020 Route: Standard Route from Lake Posted On: 7/2/2020, By: desertdog Info: Not much snow left in gully as compared to the last CR. See pictures. We did not use traction. Holy mackerel, is the gully loose for the first 20 feet. Be careful. Did Music too. It's dry. |
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6/21/2020 Route: From Lower Sand Creek Lake Posted On: 6/22/2020, By: Shattuck311 Info: A bit of snow on the shoot to get to the top of the ledges. Probably a good idea to still bring microspikes to be safe on this. |
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6/19/2020 Route: Std Route from Lower Sand Creek Lake Posted On: 6/21/2020, By: Mtnman200 Info: You'll have to cross some snow to reach the bottom of the ramp, but once on the ramp you can stay on rock all the way up. It took about 25 steps to cross the snow. (See photo) |
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6/15/2020 Route: NW Face Posted On: 6/15/2020, By: rivrrapids Info: Route is clear to ramps. Chose ramp further NW today. Edge of it can be scrambled but it is still filled in enough if you want a little snow climb. I was at base of ramp at 7:30 and it was starting to get soft even once in the gully. I did use crampons and axe just for this part. |
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5/29/2020 Route: From Music Pass Posted On: 5/29/2020, By: WildWanderer Info: Trail dry until the switchbacks, and then postholing off and on to the lake and up to the basin. I was able to summit without snowshoes, but more than once thought they'd have been worth the weight (I'd left them in my truck and was kicking myself for not taking them, but the snow will most likely all be melted out in a week or so). Gaiters at minimum would be a good idea. I used my ice axe and crampons to go up the ramp. I chose the first one, but both looked in (see last photo, taken from the route down Music). There weren't tracks anywhere past the lake. The snow was soft so I kicked in steps until I made it to rock and switched to scrambling. I climbed up the face and went down the ridge: No snow on route once you're up the ramp. |
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11/9/2019 Route: NW Ridge Posted On: 11/9/2019, By: rivrrapids Info: Ankle-shin deep snow in trees. Above tree line no snow except for in willows. RH gulley to upper slopes has unconsolidated snow in middle making it a bit sketchy as the left corner of the gulley is somewhat down-sloping. LH gulley looled choked with snow at bottom and interspersed highr up. Made it within 0.5 miles of upper Music Pass TH |
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7/17/2019 Route: North Ridge Posted On: 7/22/2019, By: bergsteigen Info: Snow on both ramps, will require ax and crampons for a while. TR forthcoming. |
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6/30/2018 Route: North Ridge Posted On: 7/3/2018, By: mjlucarelli Info: Summer conditions to the summit. Any small patches of snow en route are easily avoidable and probably won't hang around much longer. This includes both ramps that get you to the top of the cliff band (pics of the ramps attached). Just an FYI since I didn't see Music Mountain on the list of peaks to add a condition report too, it is also summer conditions. Snow free on both the south ridge and the east ridge routes. |
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6/9/2018 Route: Standard Posted On: 6/9/2018, By: CarpeDM Info: The cliff band by-pass ramps still have some snow. I took the short, steeper one (I didn't get high enough to see the other one). SOME snow will remain there for a while, but it's still melting fast. I used an ice axe and microspikes. At this point, I would definitely recommend an axe for the ramp that I took. Spikes or crampons would be okay (the snow portion is pretty darn short). The snow was perfect for kicking steps when I hit it just before 9am. Also went up Music's south ridge; conditions were good; no issues there. That's an awesome scramble! |
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10/5/2017 Route: Music Pass Posted On: 10/7/2017, By: jenvalencia Info: Snow on the music pass route to the boulder field was minimal. Among the boulder field, snow was patchy, 2in in some spots to 2ft in others, with plenty of boulders, willows, and ground patches visible. We didn't go up the ramp as it was already our turn-around time due to incoming thunderstorm. I'm not sure if we would have gone up the ramp or not, had we more time. The snow quality was very wet and sparse. There wasn't enough snow or ice to use crampons, and an axe would have no purchase either. The rocks were very wet, of course. Perhaps the snowshoes would have been needed on the ridge had we got up to that point, but as far as we got, they weren't necessary. |
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7/2/2017 Route: Northeast Face Posted On: 7/5/2017, By: drop_bear Info: Both access ramps still snowed in. Rest of the mountain was snow free. |
