9/30/2016 Route: Southwest Couloirs Posted On: 10/2/2016, By: JasonKline Info: Clear of snow. |
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7/23/2016 Route: North Ridge Posted On: 7/23/2016, By: jasayrevt Info: Clear and very nice enjoyable trip with reaching summit. Great, beautiful 13er mountain. This quality route is definitely nifty and lightly traveled. Prime summer conditions up high for navigating slopes and ridge line well. Trail runners and light pack were good. Travel safely / swiftly in the hills folks. Pictures included as beta |
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2/9/2016 Route: North Ridge Posted On: 2/9/2016, By: C-Shepguy Info: Typical packed super highway to the Iowa Mill. Slightly less super, slightly more post-holey highway to around treeline. Then not much of a trail beyond. We used snowshoes from treeline up to the start of the real ridge (recommended), then just boots to the summit and all the way back down. Post holed quite a bit approaching treeline without our snowshoes on while descending. The whole ridge is windblown, with patches of some nice hard snow and a few soft areas. Micro spikes would be helpful up there for some portions, though we made it without using ours. |
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11/29/2015 Route: North Ridge Posted On: 11/30/2015, By: sdkeil Info: The route started at the winter closure and started on packed snow. No flotation was needed until we reached the Iowa Mill (about 1 mile in). At this point you could either stay on the road, which switch backs up the side of the mountain or you can take a direct route straight up to the ridge. The direct route was fairly well packed by skiers and snowshoers so we opted for this route. We also chose to put snowshoes on here. We stashed our snowshoes at around 12,200 near a small sub-summit that spurs off the main ridge to the west. The route from here was mostly ankle deep snow with some pockets of deeper snow. The summer trail was visible in some sections, however we mostly stayed ridge proper. This led us to a small section of snowy class 3, although some of this could have been avoided by bypassing it to the climbers right. With the use of the direct route, our trip milage was about 7.5 miles and the gain was ~3,100 feet. Overall the conditions felt very wintery and it definitely was a good warm-up for the upcoming winter climbing season. |
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6/18/2015 Route: Northeast Couloirs Posted On: 6/19/2015, By: BillMiddlebrook Info: Bald's NE couloirs are still in from the top! Photos taken from Mt. Guyot. |
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5/22/2012 Route: South Ridge Posted On: 5/22/2012, By: TravelingMatt Info: I did Boreas today, not Bald, so this is a visual report. The south ridge of Bald has more snow than views from the west (Breck, Boreas Pass) may imply. Maybe 70-80% can be avoided but not all of it looks like it can be. I‘d give it another week or so before a direct, dry route melts out. Also see my report for Boreas. |
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4/10/2012 Route: North Ridge Posted On: 4/10/2012, By: Wyoming Bob Info: Dry paved road to start of USFS road; USFS road has snow here and there but 4wd passable (with sliding and lack of skill consequences) to 1/4 mile shy of Iowa Mill; fried sun cups on supportive snow to ridge/sky line; dry hike with avoidable neve here and there to summit; no need for crampons or axe if one stays prudent distance back from upper snowfield lips if crossing neve. |
