7/28/2024 Route: From Ripsaw Posted On: 7/30/2024, By: kyrawhitworth Info: Ripsaw is in full summer conditions! Only a couple small snow spots in shaded gullies that are simple to avoid. We descended the grass on Pk H and connected with the trail but let me tell you that "trail" is classic gore: meandering, weird gain, deadfall, disappears, hard to follow, etc. until you connect with the great kneeknocker trail. Thankful to sbenfield and cloudkicker for the very long but very epic day. "A classic Gore beat down" was had. |
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7/13/2024 Route: From Upper Piney Lake Posted On: 7/14/2024, By: Laxer04 Info: We backpacked into Upper Piney Lake for the weekend. My strava logged us at 8 miles from Piney Lake to Upper Piney. The trail past Piney Falls is not maintained and is one of the worst trails I have experienced. The trail is hard to follow at times and there are countless downed trees along the route. This slowed us considerably. The mosquitoes are horrific past the falls and all the way up to Upper Piney Lake. It was unbearable at times and our weekend long backpack quickly became a one night trip. Because of this, I opted to skip doing the Ripsaw (+Black BM/H) and just go up H/Black BM from Upper Piney. Snow is completely avoidable to reach the ridge just below the summit of H and the ridge is completely snow free over to Black BM. It looked snow free on the west side all the way across the Ripsaw to Peak C, for that matter. Saving that for another trip |
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6/24/2014 Route: Straight Arrow Posted On: 6/26/2014, By: goreskier Info: Skied the east facing straight arrow in decent conditions. Fading though. Managed a longish day trip to get this sucker. Third time I‘ve skied it and this is the latest I‘ve been able to ski it down to the bottom of the valley. Big snow year for the gore range! Happy man |