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| Report Type |
Mini |
| Peak(s) |
Mt. Blue Sky - 14,268 feet
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| Date Posted |
06/02/2008 |
| Date Climbed |
05/31/2008 |
| Author |
Drew Vigil |
| Mt. Evans- NW Ridge from Summit Lake |
My wife, dog and I set out to climb Mt. Evans via the Northwest Ridge from Summit Lake. We started the climb around 10:30 a.m. and we arrived back at the car at 3:45 p.m. It was a cloudless, beautiful day when we started and it stayed like that for the duration of the climb.
The Evans Highway is plowed all the way to the top and we started our climb at the Summit Lake TH (elevation: 12,830 ft.). The route we took is five (5) miles long and has an elevation gain of 1,918 ft. The route takes the NW Ridge over Mt. Spalding (13,842 ft) and crosses over to Mt. Evans.
We went without winter equipment and were just fine. The post-holing never got that bad, although we did post-hole to our waist a couple of times. But the snow was still hard and frozen well into the day. From the summit of Mt. Evans we walked the road back down to the TH due to the snow conditions on the Eastern side of the mountain. We talked with a couple of ladies that summited Mt. Spalding and they had gone back the way they came and they said the post-holing was horrific once they returned back to the TH. So if you don't want to walk the five miles on a paved road when you are done then I would wait to do this peak later this month or go early!
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