10/20/2012 Route: standard Posted On: 10/25/2012, By: FireOnTheMountain Info: I know its super late and the conditions have changed but here you go nonetheless. South face dry and loose. North face cold and snowy. Didn't descend 30-60' from the notch down the north face because that looked sketch with the conditions. Instead pitched out a traverse up from the notch to the base of the crux pitch. Ledges snowy. Super fun climb! |
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6/29/2012 Route: Standard Posted On: 7/1/2012, By: Summit Lounger Info: Standard East face route is free of snow. Snow on ramp to North face is 2 feet wide and is easily avoided on dry rock next to it. No snow on final pitch to summit. Snow is well below chockstone on descent. Water was still running in small creek where one leaves the Sneffels Highline trail to start ascending South slopes. Not sure how much longer though. |
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6/9/2012 Route: Mill Creek Posted On: 6/14/2012, By: uwe Info: Mill Creek Rd open to TH. Parking no issues. Route to 13,500, clear. From 13,500 to summit block - snow, ice, wet. Need to work through a belay to get to the actual summit block. Roach‘s standard route snow covered and completely exposed. We watched Steve & Brit rappel down form the summit and we turned back to camp for another try the next day. After getting beta from them, we pulled the plug and reloaded this peak for August. They said it took them 5 hours to problem solve their way to the summit with a ‘spotter‘. Our group was 5 and would have taken longer. So close... |
