Bartlett Mountain

Route: North couloir
Posted On: 4/26/2025, By: 9patrickmurphy
Info: Some friends of mine climbed and skied Bartlett from Clinton Gulch Dam Reservoir today and I figured I'd pass along some information: The reservoir is iced over and provided easy travel on the way up and down. Access to the north couloir was easy via skins. The couloir itself had good cover but variable snow quality. My friends said the best skiing was in the valley on the way out. They told me that the Climax Mine's road to the summit has been plowed and there is some heavy machinery staged up there, though they did not see any employees. They were glad to have done it on a weekend, but mentioned that there was still mining activity occurring below in the pit mine - maybe weekends are safer, but be aware there may be activity at the summit already even though it's only April. 

Route: N Face Couloir
Posted On: 5/11/2024, By: arthurspiderman
Info: Just had a very vivid dream about Geckser and I skiing the N face couloir. In this fantasy, we started by the reservoir and skinned up the basin till 11,600 and then cut up the drainage between Little Bartlett and Bartlett. Skinned to 12,600 and booted up the main N facing couloir that leads within 20 of the top (until more mining further moves the summit). Carefully skied down the couloir due to wind slab, but stability felt fairly good. Really fun skiing down to 11,600 and then we were able to ski all the way to reservoir without pushing. Made good time skating/pushing across the reservoir. Would recommend it over skinning. Very fun line and based on this dream, I would recommend this off-limits peak via a couloir (other E facing ones also looked great) instead of a traverse from Clinton. 2h45m RT 

Route: Clinton Reservoir Approach
Posted On: 9/4/2016, By: jasayrevt
Info: Clear and very nice enjoyable trip w/ reaching summit. Invigorating, Inspiring Hobby. Great, beautiful 13er mountain. This quality, classic route is a unique undertaking and lightly traveled. Incredible views of Mosquito Range. Prime, excellent, and bluebird summer conditions up high for navigating slopes and ridge line extremely well. Trail runners and light pack were good. Climb safely / swiftly in the hills folks. Pictures included as beta 

Route: NNW ridge
Posted On: 7/4/2012, By: Monster5
Info: A friend got a good look at it with binoculars lately. Security is present full time and the mountain is off limits; the info is just for the curious. -Dry (minus willows that appeared wet. Via binocs) -The summit has been reworked. The road now goes right to the base of the summit "crane" block. The knife edge prior no longer exists as it is a road for dumping tailings. -The formally legal route from Clinton Reservoir appeared to be a quick spell through trees, a tundra walk over Carbonate Hill, a talus slog up Little Bartlett, a talus/road slog up Bartlett, followed by a couple moves of class 3 on questionable rock. The route is now illegal and trespassers may be prosecuted by the patrolling security. According to a friend. 

Route: Any route
Posted On: 6/10/2012, By: BobbyFinn
Info: Kate and I were in the area so we thought we‘d stop by the mine to see if there was any way to legally hike Bartlett. We went to the security office and chatted with the folks there - they were very nice. They showed us maps; the mine property extends way into the Clinton Creek drainage. But, more importantly than that, the mine is operational now and they are blasting almost daily. They had to stop a blast recently because they saw hikers on the summit of Bartlett. Also, they are digging into the mountain very near the summit, which may make the summit ridge, in the near term, less stable and in the long term, non-existent. And on top of that, they are dumping rock into Clinton Creek drainage so if you‘re hiking up that way, you could get a load of rock dumped on your head. The security folks told us that they actively pursue hikers. IMHO, forgetting the private property issues, there are real dangers to hiking this mountain. Image - Summit of Bartlett with machinery on/very near it.