9/19/2024 Route: from Tabor Lake Posted On: 9/19/2024, By: rachel Info: Climbed Tabor, starting from Tabor Creek TH. Crossed Lincoln Creek easily with boots on as water levels are low currently. Route was dry. Perfect weather. Fall colors are changing. Also climbed Tellurium and West Tellurium, making a loop down the excellent New York Basin trail. |
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8/26/2022 Route: North Ridge from Tabor Lake Posted On: 8/26/2022, By: supranihilest Info: Good trail from Tabor trailhead, with a couple of creek crossings done on either rocks or small logs. It is possible to keep your feet dry. Steep grass to Tabor Lake, and there's only one obvious route up the peak from the lake: a steep, loose, awful gully. Claw your way up the gully then scramble (Class 2+, a spot or two of Class 3) the exposed ridge to the summit. Rock is often questionable but the ridge isn't hard. It rained super early so we bailed on doing the Tellurium peaks, but the terrain on the east side of those peaks is terrible and tedious, consisting of massive boulder fields. It'd almost certainly be easier to drop back to the trail or just not combine the trio, instead doing Telluriums from New York Creek which also has a good trail. |
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8/4/2021 Route: South ridge Posted On: 8/5/2021, By: SnowAlien Info: Missed the turnoff to the Tabor lake, so instead of backtracking, ascended the rubble gully on the East face (C3) to South ridge. After the look at the loose talus on the standard route, decided to take the South ridge to the saddle with Tellurium. The fist tower is bypassed on the left at very exposed C4, but the rest of the towers can be comfortably bypassed to the right at C3-C4. Pretty good rock quality overall. Ridge maybe better going the opposite way, as you upclimb the obstacles. Downclimb into the saddle was a but tricky at C4. Was thinking to continue on the ridge, but bailing off the saddle and taking the grassy slope up Tellurium goes faster. Also had a water refill in the basin. |
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8/17/2019 Route: North Ridge Posted On: 8/18/2019, By: Grover Info: Tabor Peak tip sheet: 1. There is a way across Lincoln Creek w/o getting wet or removing your boots. Instead of starting down the trail to cross the creek @ the TH, walk back to Lincoln Creek Rd., turn R, walk for ~1/4 mile, then turn south and cross the grassy area between the road and the creek. There are two big logs acting as a bridge over the water. There is a trail in the willows back to the main trail after crossing. 2. Turn off to go up to Tabor Lake/Tabor Peak is @ 11,600'. Small cairns on trail mark it. 3. The scree gully up to the ridge is one of the worst I've encountered. Pick your path of least suck. 4. The ridge line to the summit is airy and can be spicy. You can walk most of it, but you are perched high on a narrow band of rock, requiring some scrambling. |
