Grizzly Peak

Route: Grizzly and Cupid from Loveland Pass
Posted On: 6/5/2025, By: nilaoire
Info: Some snow fields, most easy to avoid. We started at 0630 hrs and postholed very little. 

Route: Grizzly and Cupid from Loveland Pass
Posted On: 5/31/2025, By: MaryinColorado
Info: Didn't do it, just looked at it from Cupid. Thought some of you might find pics to be helpful. We started late enough that any of the traversing of snow below was probably going to be a mushy mess by the time we had to come back through it, and we'd already postholed a little on Cupid. So, we just went over to Sniktau instead. 

Route: From A Basin
Posted On: 5/29/2025, By: Christensenje
Info: Still in. Skis on from and back to car, though not ski in ski out much longer. Attached coverage pics. 

Route: North Face from US 6
Posted On: 5/12/2025, By: SchralpTheGnar
Info: Started at the lot across the road from the A basic last chance lot. Skinned up the first half and boot packed the 2nd half to the summit of grizzly, the snow in the gully was frozen but not consolidated so I would punch through if I got off the bootpack. From the summit of Grizzly I skied down the ridge a bit and then dropped into a chute, heavy spring snow but skied pretty well, some sluffage. From about 12k in the basin skinned up Cupid, glorious weather and snow conditions. From the summit skied Cupid back down into Grizzly gulch close, stellar snow off the top of that, delightfully consistent. Skinned back up to the top of Cupid and then skied Dave’s Waves more or less back to the car. Nice tour of an area I have surprisingly never been despite this being my 27th year of spring skiing in the mountains, I think it’s because I ski in summit country so much in the winter by the time spring time comes around I’m looking for pastures anew, either way I’d do that again 

Route: Grizzly and Cupid from Loveland Pass
Posted On: 5/11/2025, By: jschneider256
Info: Mountain is still 90% snow covered. Tried climbing with trail running shoes, no spikes or snowshoes - while this worked, traction and flotation are still highly recommended. Mountain is still more suitable for skiing than hiking at the moment 

Route: Hourglass from Grizzly gulch
Posted On: 5/12/2025, By: slawrence2011
Info: Late start from winter grizzly gulch TH at 8:25 due to wanting to recover from Keplinger attempt day prior. Couple missed turns on Grizzly gulch road delayed me. Big one, at the huge fences, I should have gone right over the creek rather than going straight following a track. Worth skinning about 100 yards past grizzly gulch junction. I took off my skis 6 times between the junction and the first creek, and 4 times between the first and second Creek. After that, there is a snow bridge for creek 3, but a dry spot is almost there at 10,9. Ascended the couloir around 1 pm, summited at 3:20. Snow was surprisingly supportive, never sunk below my ankles, which made me really surprised to see a wet slab barrelling toward me a couple hundred feet from the ridge. Next day's avalanche forecast showed wet slab, but it had not been there Sunday. I moved to the side rapidly and it missed me, thank God! It looked to be half a foot deep and draining the whole couloir. I will report to Caic. It made a great bed surface to ski. Back to the car around 6. 

Route: Grizzly and Cupid from Loveland Pass
Posted On: 4/28/2025, By: Piotr
Info: No spikes or snowshoes necessary. Just a few spots postholing between Cupid and Grizzly. 

Route: Grizzly and Cupid from Loveland Pass
Posted On: 4/12/2025, By: Annaluz
Info: Spikes were nice but not absolutely necessary. Not a lot of snow left and what was there was solid enough to not be falling through too often. 

Route: Grizzly and Cupid from Loveland Pass
Posted On: 4/12/2025, By: whenisdinner
Info: Not much snow left on the western side, much of the trail is clear. Spikes are nice for the final ridge but not needed elsewhere. Pretty windy. Still a good amount of snow on the approach to sniktau but it's bulletproof 

Route: Grizzly and Cupid from Loveland Pass
Posted On: 3/27/2025, By: adamorsubtractem
Info: If you're looking to ditch the floatation, this is a great option right now. 90% of the trail is dry and the other 10% is almost entirely hard-pack snow, making for near-summer conditions now until probably Saturday afternoon/evening. I didn't bother to put on microspikes, but if your boots don't have aggressive traction, they could come in handy for a few sections. Conditions on Wednesday were great: 20 degrees and 10-20mph wind, much better than Saturday's climb where I was measuring sustained 30-45mph+ winds the entire ridge. 

Route: Grizzly and Cupid from Loveland Pass
Posted On: 2/23/2025, By: csf-lhiver
Info: Edit: This update is moot because the wind blew all the snow away on the ridge Started around 5:40AM. The latest storm has a foot or so of fresh snow on top of the ground that we broke to Grizzly. The wind has probably covered it up already, but we made a descent foot trench to the summit. The final ascent to Grizzly has hard packed snow in spots from the wind but you can kind of avoid it. 

Route: Grizzly and Cupid from Loveland Pass
Posted On: 2/8/2025, By: Mario Correa V
Info: I didn’t even use spikes! Go while you can. The summits of Cupid and Grizzly are 50% clear right now so get er done before a storm comes in. All of the snow that remains is perfectly packed in, but make sure to start early. You will have to exercise some route finding up on Grizzly but nothing too hard. 

Route: Grizzly and Cupid from Loveland Pass
Posted On: 2/5/2025, By: soulseeker87
Info: Fairly limited snowpack, but what is there is very solid. Highly recommend crampons if you don't want to kick in steps on the dissent down from Cupid. Snowshoes were definitely not required when I went. 

Route: Grizzly and Cupid from Loveland Pass
Posted On: 12/16/2024, By: peachy
Info: much of this trail is dry, but it is still a good mix of dry and snow. I found crampons helpful, but you definitely don't need snowshoes in the morning. started at 5am, summited at 6:30ish. beautiful sunrise, this is a good one to do right now before it snows again. 

Route: Grizzly and Cupid from Loveland Pass
Posted On: 12/6/2024, By: bigfoot1
Info: Pretty dry ridge and packed down snow. There are plenty of boot tracks to follow and traction isn't needed.