Unnamed 13513

Route: NW couloir ski descent
Posted On: 5/30/2024, By: SnowAlien
Info: After skiing the newly ranked Lidar peak I contoured to the apron of this aesthetic looking line. It's a bit steeper and longer than the SW gully of the Lidar neighbor and combines very nicely. I started climbing the line just as it was getting into the sun around 10.30-11am. Unfortunately the clouds decided to come in, so it didn't quite warm up. From the top of the couloir I turned right (on that east aspect the snow was already warm but still supportable). The summit is a snowy knife edge currently. Just enough room to put the skis on. Exciting ski traverse from the summit, then a couple side steps to get around the rocks back to the top of the NW couloir. I waited for a bit for the clouds to part, and could have waited a bit longer, but the desire to get back to camp was strong. Snow was firm, but edgeable and any exposed rocks were avoidable. Quick descent on corn snow through the basin and the trees (not too dense) back to the Apostles basin. 

Route: From Winfield 4WD TH
Posted On: 10/1/2023, By: CaptainSuburbia
Info: The trail starts off nice and then gets bushwacky with lots of fallen trees, a boulderfield and willows. We took a rock gully to the ridge and ended up near the saddle with North Apostle. This was a costly navigational mistake by me and added a long and complicated ridge climb to the summit we had not planned on. We had wanted to hit the ridge just north of the peak per a Furthermore report. After 13517 we traversed to newly Lidar ranked 13472B. This was a fun traverse but time consuming searching for the path of least resistance. Still, we probably made a few class 4 moves. The descent to the Huron saddle was not difficult. We returned to TH by climbing Huron and descending it's standard route. 

Route: East and South Ridges
Posted On: 9/5/2023, By: supranihilest
Info: From Rockdale the crossing of Clear Creek is easy as the water is around shin deep. Round trip from Rockdale to the upper trailhead is about 6 miles and 1,110 vert on the road. Pear Lake trail has some downed trees on it. Northeast of 13,517 A's east ridge I left the trail and crossed Lake Fork. There was some dense, wet willow bashing and I found a good log to cross. From here I avoided a waterfall by climbing to the right through the forest, then contoured south once I reached treeline. A grass ramp led up to a mess of cliffs, which I zig-zagged through on steep grass, scree, talus, and some solid rock. This was very steep and required care on the loose footing. Plenty of Class 2+ and some Class 3 getting through the cliffs. Atop the cliffs is a big boulder field, cross it to the northwest towards a tower-like feature. Once on the tower you can see the whole summit ridge, which is a lot of Class 2, Class 2+, and some Class 3. There are bypass options to keep things to Class 2+ but they're convoluted and add a bunch of up and down. I found it best to just stay ridge proper, the rock was solid and the scrambling very enjoyable. There's a huge gully just below the summit that looks like it'd pose a problem to cross but it turns out to be a broad grass strip to cross at the top, no scrambling down and up it at all. I reversed the ridge and went up 13,220 from there. Overall a very enjoyable peak.