Unnamed 13038

Route: Tincup Peak Ridge and Bushwhack to the Road
Posted On: 6/9/2025, By: bryanpeck3
Info: Minimal snow from Tincup Peak to UN 13038 and through the woods down to the road. 

Route: Straight up from the road
Posted On: 2/23/2025, By: bangerth
Info: The mountain ain't much, but the trench we left is fantastic :-) The trench starts 2.1 miles from where you turn onto Tincup Pass Road just north of the little bridge in San Elmo. Tough going once you leave the road and until tree line. It's fairly steep and alternates between deep and fluffy snow, and snow that's not quite deep enough and slides at the ground. In the afternoon, the bottom 1/3 of the forest was also melting. Above treeline it's easy going -- mostly bare with only a few small areas of drifted snow that are easy to cross. 

Route: East Ridge
Posted On: 2/2/2025, By: dolfh
Info: Steep hike up from Tincup Pass Road. There is a snow slope in the tree line area exceeding 30 degrees that may be difficult to descend in snowshoes. The trench is still in good shape. 

Route: South ridge?
Posted On: 1/31/2025, By: bigfoot1
Info: THANK YOU to everyone who broke this out. Trench is still really nice, some little bit of snow drifted over the trench near treeline but it is still super easy to see. Down low, there was a lot of melting and snow is all rounded little marbles. Looks like a significant bit has melted, and some grass and stuff from under is peeking through. 0 avalanche danger in my opinion. Ridge is moderately dry. I ended up clocking in the entire trip from the St Elmo trailer parking lot to summit and back at only 7 miles. At the start of the snowmobile road, there was a big sign that said "tracked vehicles only" but I'm hoping/guessing that was just to deter people in cars from driving further and did not refer to pedestrians. One snowmobiler passed me on my way up and waved hello so I don't think I did anything bad. 

Route: From St. Elmo
Posted On: 1/30/2025, By: Will_E
Info: Took advantage of the trench that Ryan, Kyra, Marshall and Eric put in today, its super high quality in depth, texture and weaviness. Super steep through treeline, heel riser was up most of the way through the trees. Cold and windy up high, as usual for this winter. 

Route: From st. Elmo
Posted On: 1/26/2025, By: yaktoleft13
Info: Marshall, Kyra, Ryan, and myself climbed 13038 from st. Elmo. Tincup pass road was well packed by snowmobiles and did not need flotation. Put on snowshoes and veered up the southern slopes around 2 miles or so from the start of the road. Trenching was ankle to mid shin for the first 500 vert, then knee to mid thigh until we reached treeline. There's a semi-steep open slope at treeline, but we deemed it safe and zigzagged up it. Stashed snowshoes at the first rock outcropping and booted on rock, slabby snow, and tundra to the summit. There's an industrial trench to treeline; go get it! 8.2 miles, 3300 gain, a little under 7 hours 

Route: From Tin Cup Pass RD (267)
Posted On: 6/23/2024, By: denvermikey
Info: Near summer conditions. Avoidable snow hear and there. Pretty wet/marshy on approach through forest. Great loop. Route description on climb13ers.com is pretty spot on. Road is getting pretty bad. 

Route: from Tincup Pass Road
Posted On: 11/6/2021, By: ScottLovesRMNP
Info: Gorgeous weather in the southern Sawatch today. Hiked up the Tincup Pass Rd from St. Elmo only about 1.5 miles before darting into the aspens and straight up the steep south slope! The bushwhacking isn't too difficult through the aspens. Almost no snow encountered until above 12,000 feet, and even then, it is mostly avoidable or just a minor nuisance to walk through small stretches. It was windy up high, but not terrible for this time of the year. Took under 4 hours round trip. 

Route: From Tincup Peak
Posted On: 11/20/2020, By: WildWanderer
Info: Ridge was mostly dry. Snow was avoidable or the sections too short to cause any difficulties. The summit was snow free. I took the southeast ridge down to make this a loop back to the road. I wore snowshoes to the road, then microspikes back to the trailhead. 

Route: Woodchopper Creek
Posted On: 11/2/2020, By: tjf242424
Info: I went up by the lakes to the WNW ridge on the ascent and then down the S ridge directly off the summit. The S route has less snow but is steeper and there's ankle deep snow in the trees regardless of the route chosen. I did it in approach shoes without traction (wet feet by the end). Tin Cup Pass road is snowy in sections, but it's packed down and I did it in an Outback with no problems. 

Route: From Tincup peak
Posted On: 8/5/2020, By: Trotter
Info: Class 2 difficult ridge from Tincup peak, took the colorado trail alternate route back to tincup pass, great trail. Needs a summit register and can, couldn't find one. 

Route: West Ridge from \"Tincup Peak\"
Posted On: 12/3/2019, By: supranihilest
Info: See my report for "Tincup Peak" for conditions up to the summit of "Tincup". From there drop down towards the "Tincup"/13,050 saddle. The ridge looks intimidating from here but is a lot easier than it looks. The closer you get to the saddle the more rugged it gets, so drop down on grass and around various rocky bumps until things get too steep and/or exposed for your tastes, then return to the ridge crest. Very near the saddle the ridge narrows and steepens. It is quite exposed on both northern and southern aspects. The ridge at this point is mostly made up of giant blocks of granite and is quite snow covered. I traversed on the northern side until I ran out of good options then crossed over the ridge and stayed either on its southern side or on its crest; the crest is probably the best place. Snow on the ridge is pretty bad, mostly powdery tractionless junk. After the saddle things stay steep but the ridge turns into a slope and exposure becomes negligible. Scramble up boulders and snow to the summit. I'd call this route (at least in current conditions) Class 2+, perhaps a move or two of Class 3. I carried but did not use microspikes and an ice axe. Descending the southeast ridge to Lake Gulch was the easiest option (instead of returning over "Tincup Peak") and is the way I went down. The route is largely obvious but a GPX track may be useful. Follow wide open and dry slopes off the summit heading southeast. There's very little snow until treeline and you'll be at treeline near some interesting stacks of granite boulders just sitting in the middle of an otherwise grassy meadow. The route from here takes a turn for the worse due to large amounts of awful quality snow. I donned my snowshoes where the snow began and was still postholing to my knees. I attempted to stay on the least steep slopes I could while trending southeast, but this wasn't always possible; some slopes were steep but nothing crazy. I made it to the lower lake and continued down avoiding the steep drainage immediately off the lake; this will be obvious even without tracks. Deadfall from the lake to Tincup Road was everywhere. The lower I got the worse the snow became, much of it wet, thick, and heavy. Nearer to the road there was only a couple of inches of snow and it was extremely slick. I fell down several times even with snowshoes on, they'd just slide right under me. I stayed on the western side of the creek the entire time and eventually hit an old, closed trail which I took southwest to a clearing off Tincup Road, then hiked the road back to St. Elmo. If you are crazy enough to try this peak in such awful conditions you'll see my snowshoe tracks a couple hundred yards west of where the creek from that drainage meets Tincup Road. I would not even bother attempting to go up my route, it'd be an exercise in futility with how terrible the snow is. 

Route: west ridge
Posted On: 11/18/2019, By: Marmot72
Info: Road mostly dry to St Elmo. Road from St Elmo snowpacked from the start, so I parked and walked all of it. Road had several sustained icy sections. My way was made much easier by the continuous wheel tracks. It dried out as I neared Tin Cup pass. The way up to Tin Cup Peak was mostly dry, as was the connecting ridge running east to 050. At two rocky sections of the ridge, the snow had accumulated and compacted on south side of ridge. The broad summit was dry and it was easy to avoid snow on descent of south face to road. 

Route: Via Colorado Trail
Posted On: 8/24/2019, By: Flyingfish
Info: Looks like the ridge has collapsed just west of the saddle with "Tincup" So the route is harder to stay on the ridge itself. Otherwise the route is summer conditions.