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Hiked Huron with a friend via the standard NW route. Trailhead was completely clear of snow, but that's a rough road in.
About a mile into the trees, we started hitting patchy snow. Even at 6 am it was fairly soft and there was some postholing. However, you could avoid some of the patches through detouring. At about 1.5 miles in, its almost impossible to miss the snow, but its still too patchy for snowshoes.
view from treeline
Once you get out of the trees, the path is snow free till the big snowfield
snowfield
At 6 am it was still crusty and fine to walk across. With it being so flat, you don't even need spikes. After noon though, there were large patches that postholed about knee deep.
The climb out of the snowfield is very wet and icy due to snowmelt. However, once you gain the ridge its very dry until the summit. The summit still holds a lot of snow. We summited about 10:30 and spent a good hour up there, enjoying the perfect weather.
ice
I got bored while waiting for my friend to catch up.
summit
Managed to get some decent glissading on the way down, from the ridgeline almost down to the snowfield.
The snowfield and snow in the trees was pretty soft on hike down, and it was very easy to lose the trail while bypassing the really big snow patches.
I honestly think Huron should almost be a class 1 hike, whoever setup the trail did an awesome job.
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area of the Sawatch. Some friends & I hiked Huron about this same time last year...
I spent the sunsets gawking at some of the snow lines seen around Sheep Rock Mountain (photo 3).
If you don't like that road - steer clear of Rockdale. (it is MUCH worse!) :lol:
Good job in wonderful conditions!
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