Unnamed 13332

Route: Loop from cottonwood
Posted On: 6/22/2025, By: kyrawhitworth
Info: We (cloudkicker and ryanolsonDDS) looped 13,332 and 13,093 from cottonwood going up the hope 4WD to 13,332, over to 13,093, and down the poplar gulch trail. The road walking is short so we didn’t do a car shuttle. Only one tiny snow crossing on the way up, no spikes needed. Ridge goes at class 2 with a bit of up and down. Gpx uploaded to the library. 

Route: South Ridge
Posted On: 4/10/2025, By: bigfoot1
Info: Beautiful day! Attempt, dropped my snowshoes too early and ran into thigh deep snow at 11.8k ft. You will need snowshoes to summit. Some small and mostly avoidable snow before that, but it looked dead dry from the road and was super dry until all of a sudden there was snow. The mud was a bit slippery from 11-11.5k ft by the cliffs. Survived with only one small knuckle injury from sliding through the mud into a tree. Not runnable. 

Route: Green Timber Gulch
Posted On: 6/26/2023, By: 9patrickmurphy
Info: Started at the 344/348 junction. Walked up the road then up the Green Timber Gulch trail. Inconsequential snow on the GTG trail. Trail to the summit of 13,078. No snow between 13,078 and 13,317. Took the mining road from the 101st cabin down to the junction; some snow here, but trailrunners were fine for sidehilling over the snow covered portions of the road. Road looks driveable to about 11,800 before snowdrifts block it. Road seemed like it would be Subaruable, fwiw. I found it quite easy to shortcut some of the road's lower switchbacks, very easy bushwhacking and saved some time and mileage. No log bridges that I could find across the creek. The water was up to my thighs, glad it was at the end of the day and not the beginning. 

Route: From 13078
Posted On: 11/20/2022, By: yaktoleft13
Info: Went up green timber, over 078 and 317, then down the road from the hut into whatever that basin is (hope gulch?). Road is passable at least to green timber gulch trailhead by any SUV and maybe a sedan. Wore snowshoes from 10.3 to 12.1 on the ascent. Most areas below treeline have 6-12 inches. Ridge is mildly snowy grass or talus pretty much the whole way, no traction necessary. Mind the avy slopes above the road when descending, though fortunately not a problem today. Can mitigate by either descending the ridge and hitting the road later, or dropping below the road. Wore snowshoes on descent from 12.6 to the car. Good wintery loop 

Route: Via 348 fr CR344, Cottonwood Lake road
Posted On: 8/18/2022, By: Jan van Tilburg
Info: Stream crossing was just doable. I have high hiking boots. Otherwise one has to bring crossing shoes. Road was easy. Long. Last pitch up UN13,317 also easy. 

Route: Alpine Cemetery to Poplar Gulch traverse
Posted On: 8/22/2021, By: JasonKline
Info: Alpine Cemetery -> 13626 -> 13317 -> 13078 -> Poplar Gulch was entirely free of any snow from last week's storm. It was pretty windy and a little chilly at times on the traverse. 

Route: From Point 13,626 (Cottonwood Lake Campground)
Posted On: 5/24/2020, By: supranihilest
Info: Basically dry the entire way. Plenty of Class 2 talus. There's numerous roller bumps en route that seem to take forever. My friends went up the ridge to avoid snow and I went directly up the east face. Both are viable. You can avoid most/all snow on both. The face is very steep and looks looser than it actually is; still, the ridge is probably easier. We went over to Point 13,078 so I can't say what the descents/ascents into Hope Gulch or Weldon Gulch are like. 

Route: South-Southeast Ridge near Alpine
Posted On: 2/26/2012, By: piper14er
Info: ...just to change it up from 14ers... There is no trail or trailhead on these as far as I know although there is a house and road up to the ridge east of 13317. First a bit of info from 02/17/12. I followed the westerly side of the ridge between Coal Camp Canyon and Sheep Canyon up and over 13299 enroute to Unnamed 13317. I started from the mainroad (CR 162) at a small turnout that is past Alpine Reservoir and just west of Sheep Canyon. I dropped down and crossed two creeks and back up to CR 292. Without snow you can drive CR 292 out of the town of Alpine to the same point. It is closed in winter for vehicles but open to snowmobiles. I followed the road west and then up the ridge. The snow on that side of Coal Camp Canyon was not bad. Gaining the top of the ridge is steep though. (Image #1 taken from the ridge to 13078 on 02/24). Once you get to 13299 you have a short steep and rocky drop to the east down to the saddle and then back up to Unnamed 13317. I dropped off the westerly side of the 13317 ridge and directly back down Sheep Canyon. A short 2 miles and 3800 foot return. I would have been better off had I headed over to 13078 right then but with a late start and the time it took to get to 13317 it would have been dark by the time I would have made it there. The ridge to Unnamed 13078 is a different story. Same start and then to the west side of Coal Camp Canyon. Treeline is 2500 feet up in a short 1 mile stretch to a narrow ridge. It started out okay with only a little snow but a lot of dead and down trees to bushwack, then rocks to climb. The snow gets deep at 10700 or so, waist deep and steep. (Image #2 shows my trench behind me and is deeper than it looks). The snow was powder and no bottom. Snowshoes did not help and at one point below treeline it took me two hours to gain about 800 feet. Once to treeline you would have another 1.5 miles to the summit. (Image #3 and #4 shows the ridge and peak from 13299). Hope there is some useful info here for someone.