Tabeguache Peak

Route: Via Mt. Shavano
Posted On: 5/26/2018, By: Kcmartinez22
Info: Dry all the way down the Shav ridge to the saddle If you stay high on the ridge. Lower you'll have to cross a little bit of snow. I stayed high. The final 150-200 ft ridge up to the to Tab is snow loaded but easy to kick into. No traction needed. 

Route: Via Mt. Shavano
Posted On: 5/18/2018, By: LetsGoMets
Info: Dry from Shavano to maybe 150 vertical feet from Tab summit, then snow is unavoidable for the remainder. Spikes may be helpful. I did no traction and trail runners with no issues. 

Route: West Ridge
Posted On: 5/7/2018, By: yaktoleft13
Info: Climbmed Tab via the West Ridge from Jennings Creek on Sunday. No snow below treeline. There was sporadic snow through the gulch, including a quarter mile section that was largely unavoidable. Mostly dry to PT 13936. Between 13936 and the summit, there was snow /cornices on the ridge, some of which were passable and some of which were easier to drop down to avoid. On the last bump on the ridge before the summit, the snow conditions forced either an exposed downclimb/snow traverse or a class 3 downclimb on the ridge proper. Snow remained supportive, even with an afternoon descent. Minimal postholing. No traction/snowshoes used. 

Route: Via Mt. Shavano
Posted On: 5/6/2018, By: little_castaldo
Info: From Shavano, there is a mix of snow and scree down to the saddle (microspikes not needed). Once at the saddle, it changes to all snow all the way to the summit (microspikes helped a lot, snowshoes were not needed). I'd like to add that Tab looks like it's a monster climb from Shavano (at least it did to me), but it really was much shorter than it looked (took us 30 minutes from the saddle and we are slow paced). 

Route: Via Mt. Shavano
Posted On: 3/31/2018, By: supranihilest
Info: Descending off of Mount Shavano is straight forward rock hopping on solid granite. There is a section or two of snow but no traction or flotation is needed and they are short. Ascending Tabeguache is easiest if you connect the disconnected areas of rocks poking through the snow up to the ridgeline on climber's right, then follow the snow to the summit. Crampons/microspikes were not needed for the ascent of Tabeguache, I just booted my way up the knife edge snow. The southern side of the ridge was hard packed, the northern side is pretty soft but not deep. On the way down Tabeguache plunge stepping the entire way is easy. 

Route: Via Mt. Shavano
Posted On: 3/23/2018, By: halite
Info: Descent from Shavano ridge is bone dry. From saddle you can either rock hop with a couple post holes or wear spikes and climb the boot pack up the spine to the summit. 

Route: West Ridge
Posted On: 2/4/2018, By: tcphoto87
Info: Didn't even get to hike this but wanted to mention that the West Ridge trailhead is not accessible. The road is "open" but after a little bit on the 4wd road it turns to solid ice. Luckily I turned around and a camper was running after us that I missed that was trying to flag us down to stop. Turns out a Jeep slid off at the start of it the night before cause they couldn't see the ice. Otherwise the peak looks like summer conditions and the Shavano side looked bone dry 

Route: Via Mt. Shavano
Posted On: 1/31/2018, By: JtheChemE
Info: Below treeline, there is snow, but our group of three put in a solid track that was later reinforced by another party of two. No flotation used, but we started at 3am. The snow was spring post-holey on the exit, and varied in depth (up to 3') depending on aspect and elevation. Dry above treeline, and we stuck just leeward of Shav east ridge proper, due to the whipping winds. Above treeline, the standard east trail to Shav is clear, as seen in photo, traverse to Tab does not have any snow that meaningfully impacts route. This information good only until the next system, forecast 2/3/18. 

Route: Via Mt. Shavano
Posted On: 1/31/2018, By: Santanoni
Info: The ridge on Shavano has very little snow and is almost bare. Tabaguache has some snow, but not much there either, and not nearly enough on the one possible avy slope to be dangerous. 

Route: Via Mt. Shavano
Posted On: 1/17/2018, By: Furthermore
Info: There were some areas of snow - not long nor hard - on the traverse from Shavano. Mostly windblown and dry. Pic - taken from the saddle. 

Route: Via Mt. Shavano
Posted On: 1/4/2018, By: Vimana Aircraft
Info: Blown clear of almost all snow from Shavano to Tabeguache. A very small amount of snow near the summit of Tabeguache! Awesome day!!!!!! 

Route: West Ridge
Posted On: 12/24/2017, By: Eagle Eye
Info: Starting 3.4 miles down from Jennings Creek TH off CR 240; the old closed route is a bit overgrown but has far-spaced log steps almost the entire way to the tarn (route fork for SW Ridge) I carried but never used snowshoes, there were a few snowy places it was necessary to wallow through in the basin. Also lots of mighty, old, Bristlecone Pine trees in the basin. I wore microspikes almost the whole day, it tears them up but gives a lot of confidence & traction to rock-hopping, which there is plenty to do. The road often had an underlying layer of ice. (Updated Jennings Creek TH Conditions also.) I rounded the upper basin & gained the W ridge much higher & closer to the Tab side than the Carbonate Mt - Tab Peak low saddle, which was loose but went well. I stayed on the West Ridges' wind-blown crest to the summit, and descended in my tracks. Never saw anyone, anywhere the whole trip and I looked at Mt Shavano and Mt Antero from the summit w/ binoculars. 

Route: Via Mt. Shavano
Posted On: 12/18/2017, By: kayleenann8
Info: Trail covered in snow to treeline. There is some ice beneath the snow -- it would likely be slow going without microspikes. Kept microspikes on near treeline -- some patches of snow and ice to the saddle of Shavano -- microspikes were nice there. Mostly dry above treeline. 

Route: Via Mt. Shavano
Posted On: 12/4/2017, By: Eagle Eye
Info: Very little snow on the Mt Shavano ridge down to the saddle. Snow cover when approaching the summit of Tabeguache Peak but a very well packed trail. 

Route: Via Mt. Shavano
Posted On: 10/16/2017, By: hcliang
Info: Went up Tabeguache from Shavano yesterday, 10/15/17. There was up to a foot of snow on the Shavano side (northwest ridge of Shavano) of the traverse that I post-holed in often (Your miles may vary, obviously, depending on foot size, weight, and time of day - I weigh ~190 lbs, wear size 11 boots, and went around 1 pm yesterday afternoon after the snow had a chance to warm up in the sun). As much as I tried to step on talus instead of snow, there were long stretches where it was unavoidable to walk on snow on the traverse. The good news, though, is that there's no snow after reaching the saddle, and you won't encounter any more snow until nearing the Tabeguache summit.