Red Mountain

Route: From Culebra Peak
Posted On: 5/31/2025, By: ColoNativeGal
Info: See also Culebra report. Snow patches over to Red, which I found easier than the talus. Had spikes, did not use. Gaiters, water proof shoes and poles helpful. You can see and 95% follow the trail from the saddle up to the summit of Red which is helpful. See photos for visual of conditions. 

Route: From Culebra Peak
Posted On: 6/24/2024, By: PikaSteve
Info: Summer conditions. Some lingering snow may impact east bypass of pt 13599 bump at the saddle between Culebra and Red. Trail segments are now continuous from low point of saddle up the scree to summit of Red Mountain. About 40% of Culebras hikers continued on to Red. 

Route: From Culebra Peak
Posted On: 6/9/2024, By: swilson753
Info: Summer conditions on Red and Culebra. All snow except for a small patch near the creek just above the 4wd parking is bypassable. No traction/flotation needed. 

Route: From Culebra Peak
Posted On: 7/1/2023, By: Mtnman200
Info: Summer conditions! Any lingering snow is easily bypassed. 

Route: From Culebra Peak
Posted On: 5/16/2022, By: Grisel
Info: Basically summer conditions, there's a couple patches of snow on the ridge but nothing requiring traction/gaiters 

Route: From Culebra Peak
Posted On: 5/28/2021, By: EthanBeltramo
Info: Climbed Culebra and Red today. They are letting people park at the 4 way now, the upper trailhead is still blocked by some drifts. The snow was super solid in the morning and I only needed microspikes. The last mile or so on the descent, things got soft and I was postholing waste deep even with snowshoes, but it is melting fast. However the snow stayed pretty solid on the ridge. Most snow is avoidable on the ridge and all the way to red mountain. A lot of the postholing can be avoided by being creative and taking a longer route around the snow field. Also a lot of the snowfield can be quickly glisaded down to make the descent much faster and avoid some postholing. Took my micros off after the initial climb to the large cairn. Didnt put on my snowshoes until the last mile or two on the decent. 

Route: From Culebra Peak
Posted On: 4/4/2021, By: SnowAlien
Info: Looks almost skiable! Maybe one more storm would do the trick 

Route: From Culebra Peak
Posted On: 3/7/2021, By: CaptainSuburbia
Info: Mostly windblown. No traction needed. 

Route: From Culebra Peak
Posted On: 1/18/2021, By: climbingcue
Info: Road is packed down very well from the Ranch using snowmobiles. From the 4 way to the tree line the trench is in and we did not need snowshoes until climbing out of the tree line. Then ditched the shoes at the top of that 1st ridge. We had no view for Culebra, and we only able to see where we were after coming back over from Red. Our total time was 10 hours on the dot. Here is my strava link if you would like pictures. https://www.strava.com/activities/4632578409 

Route: From Culebra Peak
Posted On: 7/4/2020, By: E_A_Marcus_949
Info: No snow on route from Culebra. Some below the ridge-line but easy enough to avoid when skirting around the first bump. Poles helped on the way up/down with the loose dirt/rocks. 

Route: Alamosito Creek
Posted On: 6/27/2020, By: angry
Info: Purgatoire> Alamosito>Vermejo>Red>Culebra Summer conditions. Summit register needs pen/paper. 

Route: From Culebra Peak
Posted On: 6/21/2020, By: Unknown
Info: Dry on the “trail” entire way. Very windy 

Route: From Culebra Peak
Posted On: 6/29/2018, By: LetsGoMets
Info: Summer conditions and easy route up and over Culebra and onto Red. 

Route: From Culebra Peak
Posted On: 5/27/2018, By: Gatsby
Info: From the summit of Culebra to the summit of Red, there was no snow to be negotiated. Full summer conditions. 

Route: NW route
Posted On: 8/25/2013, By: d_baker
Info: Not of great significance, and a bit late for the hiking season of the "pay to play" peaks, but the register container (on Red) is empty. I took the soaking wet one down since it was useless. However I did not put another register of any kind back. Maybe next year, or this winter (?) someone can put some paper in it! The tube on Culebra was busted too, but I forgot to grab it and pack it out. Maybe Uwe did? Conditions of the mountain were summertime fine. The weather made for an interesting ascent, as we tried to find the summits!