"Lackawanna"

Route: gully ski
Posted On: 5/19/2014, By: SnowAlien
Info: Continuous snow starts from 11,080 ft, top of the willows, bottom of the gully (made for ~2,800 ft of skiing). Most of the snow in the gully is consolidated, save for the last 300-500 ft when I started punching through the thin frozen crust, which made for a slow progress. There is an option to bail on the right to gain the ridge around 12.5k or so. Beware of cornices and wet slides - lots of old wet slide debris in the gully. With a bit chilly/windy/overcast day dropping in at 12pm worked out great (had to wait an hour on the summit), but it should be much earlier on a sunny day. Fun line with an easy road access.

#1 - old wet slide debris near 12.5k
#2 - coverage
#3 - cornices with wet slide debris
#4 - near the end of the ski line ~11k 

Route: South Slopes
Posted On: 5/3/2014, By: mrickers
Info: Skied Lackawanna today via the S Slopes.

First 1000' or so is intermittent snow + bushwhacking. No skiing here.

Rest of the way is continuous snow save for one short stretch near the summit. There is a nice booter to the top.

We dropped at 10am, and it was still super icy. Guess we should have waiting longer.

Photo #1: Look back down the start of the gully off 82.
Photo #2: Above the bushwhack, continuous snow
Photo #3: Looking down the summit ridge 

Route: Southwest Gully (from 82)
Posted On: 6/8/2013, By: BobbyFinn
Info: I'm not a skier, but I'd say that ski season on Lackawanna is over. The approach gully has thin snow and from ~12.2k to ~12.7k the snow is completely melted. Most of the ridge to the summit above the gully is melted out.

It's in pretty good condition to walk up and down, but IMO leave the skis at home.


Pic 1 - From about 12.2k looking up.
Pic 2 - From about 12.7k looking up.
Pic 3 - Our ascent route. 

Route: South slopes
Posted On: 11/2/2012, By: Eph 2 5
Info: I didn't climb it, but I drove by the gully at the beginning of the route. That portion of the route looks dry (see picture) 

Route: South Ridge from CO 82
Posted On: 1/15/2012, By: Matt Lemke
Info: Due to my stupid internet, I'm not typing this 3 times...STUPID Comcast...I'm suing you for all you're worth!!!

Anyway, climbed the steep south slopes of Lackawanna from CO 82. No snow, no wind, warm sunny day. Fantastic summit views of all the Sawatch and Elks. 

Route: South Slopes(ish)
Posted On: 1/16/2012, By: CarpeDM
Info: Just setting up a new computer, so Matt Lemke got his report out before I could get mine out. I'll echo what he has to say: Not much snow at all. I went up the gully, then hung a right (at about 12k) and went up the SE ridge (about 12,400) before curling around to the peak. When out of the gully, there was a bit of wind - oh, perhaps up to 20mph - not a big deal. But the summit was practically dead calm. Came down the South ridge until I met back up with my tracks in the gully.

I did a little postholing - not worth bringing snowshoes. Microspikes were helpful in spots.

Pic1 - view from where I left the road. There was a bushwhack that wasn't bad.
Pic2 - looking up the lower part of the gully
Pic3 - a little higher up in the gully looking in the direction of the peak
Pic4 - looking across SE ridge to the false summit (the actual summit is back out of sight)