7/17/2025 Route: None Posted On: 7/17/2025, By: nilaoire Info: Summer conditions. Snow in the saddle below the peak is easily avoided. The route to the summit is on the back side of the snow/saddle and is dry as a board. |
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7/9/2025 Route: Southeast Basin Posted On: 7/9/2025, By: SimplePole Info: Early summer conditions. A snowfield in the basin requires spikes and poles to cross. A cornice seemingly blocks an access to the ridge but fortunately can be bypassed by scampering a few feet on rocks. There are several creek crossing, the first of which by the trailhead is the most difficult. Willow bashing can be completely avoided by staying on the Rico Silverton trail longer, when the willow patches are fewer and there are short paths through them. Plenty of loose rock but fairly easy when going down. |
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7/29/2024 Route: CT Posted On: 7/29/2024, By: Skimo95 Info: Shoutout to whoever left a flask of fireball on Rolling. San Miguel, Grizzly B, and Rolling are all in summer conditions. |
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7/20/2024 Route: NE Ridge Direct Posted On: 7/20/2024, By: ericahlstedt Info: Amazing scrambling route. Surprising theres 0 information about this route in guidebooks or online. Id say its a classic scramble for the rock quality, scenery, and lack of people. A lot of the route was surprisingly solid granite, good friction sections. Mostly class 3 with a few 4 and easy 5th sections that could be bypassed most likely. Highly recommend |
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10/26/2023 Route: rico-silverton Posted On: 10/26/2023, By: zootloopz Info: Plenty of snow and ice on trail below treeline, but as of today no traction required for the entire route. This will for sure change on Saturday. 5 hours round trip including breaks. No clear turn off from the Rico-Silverton trail to start the willow section. Willows were not too bad to be honest -- short lived and most of them were chest height or below so visibility was good. There were maybe 3 cairns on the off-trail portion so be prepared with a gps track and some annotated photos. Managed to only fall on my ass 5 times on the way down. Beautiful views in a great location. The google maps estimate is spot on in terms of time to the Rico-Silverton TH. High clearance 2wd will be fine, unless the rivers are raging during a melt. Couple of hunters were packing in as I was hiking out. Spotted momma moose and teen moose around the flatter area near 11,150'. Didn't give me any trouble thankfully. |
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10/17/2023 Route: South Slopes Posted On: 10/17/2023, By: Grover Info: Reporting live from the summit. Route is totally dry. Chossy finish like the neighboring peaks. Splendid hike into the basin, with stream crossings. 1 mama moose and 1 baby moose milling around the beaver ponds when you enter the basin. San Juan's look really dry. Come get it during this stretch of sunny, cloudless days. |
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8/29/2022 Route: East gully to East ridge from South Mineral Posted On: 8/29/2022, By: SnowAlien Info: After looking at a few different reports, Otina's route is pretty perfect. Minimal route finding, efficient elevation gain, just a bit of willow bashi g and sticking to the East ridge is fun and rock is mostly solid. There is a faint user trail along the ridge. Minimal scrambling at class 2+/3. Combines well with nearby peaks and makes for a nice loop. Thumbs up. No register. |
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6/28/2022 Route: Rico-Silverton Posted On: 6/29/2022, By: angry Info: Route is cruiser. One short snowfield remains around ~12,400. |
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1/31/2022 Route: Coal bank pass Posted On: 2/5/2022, By: smartt Info: Used snow shoes over Jura knob then crampons to gain the ridge for rolling. Approached from coal bank pass. 15mi 4,200 gain |
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10/17/2020 Route: From South Mineral Creek Posted On: 10/18/2020, By: WildWanderer Info: Summer conditions. |
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9/15/2020 Route: South Ridge Posted On: 9/15/2020, By: tjf242424 Info: No issues with snow the entire way from Rico Silverton TH. We approached up the creek, heading for the saddle just south of the summit. We started on the south side of the creek and then crossed to the north at around 12,500 ft. Straightforward, but plenty of loose talus and scree. We were able to drive all the way to the TH in a 2wd Sprinter. Any crossover or SUV will make it. |
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9/2/2020 Route: Southeast Basin Posted On: 9/4/2020, By: supranihilest Info: From the end of South Mineral Creek Road/San Juan County Road 7 (high clearance required, 4WD helpful) head south and immediately cross the creek on a couple of small logs. Take the trail south for about a mile to a mile and a half until you're well past the south face of Rolling. The southeast basin will be to your right. Go west/right into the basin, facing a willow bash, and stick to one side of the small creek or the other. You will lose the opportunity to cross the creek as the terrain gets steeper and the creek more eroded, but both sides of the creek work. Head all the way up the basin to the saddle just southwest of Rolling, which still has a bit of snow, and then head north and locate the trail that continues the rest of the way up Rolling. The route never gets more difficult than Class 2. Return the way you came. |
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7/12/2020 Route: SE Gully Posted On: 7/13/2020, By: cottonmountaineering Info: Still snow on the normal route right near the saddle, it can be avoided by going up a loose slope slightly south of the saddle. Rest of the mountain is dry |
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10/25/2019 Route: South Mineral Posted On: 10/28/2019, By: WildWanderer Info: No snow on Rico-Silverton trail in. Creek Crossings were iced over. Spotty snow in all the wrong areas. I attempted this peak via both routes on Friday from South Mineral and failed to summit both times, once due to lack of gear and the other due to false beta. I made it to about 500' below the summit before turning back. Full report can be found here for those interested in this peak, as my mistakes are avoidable: https://wildwandererlmc.wordpress.com/2019/10/28/rolling-mountain-13693-attempts/ |
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9/10/2014 Route: Southeast Ridge Posted On: 9/10/2014, By: TravelingMatt Info: I took the Rico-Silverton Trail most of the way to 12500‘ Rolling Pass, then negotiated grass/willows/scree to gain the SE ridge of Rolling. Negotiating the few hundred vertical feet of loose scree between trail and ridge is worth the cost of admission to the much more stable, gentle, picturesque ridge. The Rico-Silverton Trail has a couple of tricky creek crossings, one right at the start and another about � mile in. Recommend stashing sandals for the first crossing; you can cross the higher one by scooting along a log some 150� downstream. The NW ridge of Rolling sucks. |
