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 Peak:  Little Bear Peak
 Route:  West Ridge and Hourglass
 Range:  Sangre de Cristo
 Posted By:  Coyote_Run
 Date of Info:  4/26/2014
 Date Posted:  4/26/2014
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We hiked into Como Lake Friday afternoon around 4:00 pm. We postholed the last 300 yards to the cabin. The snow was slush. We stayed in the cabin. At 4:00 am, we started hiking. It did not get cold enough last night and postholed on every 5th step until we got to the trees. In the trees, we postholed every few steps. Once we climbed the hill heading up the valley to the Little Bear trailhead, the snow was much more solid. It would have been much easier with snowshoes. We used crampons and mountaineering axes to climb the first gully. There was a thin crust, but it was easy to kick through. Since this was our first time using axes and crampons and an afternoon storm was forecast, we turned around at the top of the West ridge. (This is only my second Conditions Report so please be nice.)


Comments or Questions
kushrocks
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Thanks
4/27/2014 3:37am
for posting dude. Were you guys wearing snowshoes?


Coyote_Run
No Snowshoes for us
4/27/2014 8:14pm
We did not pack up our snowshoes. They would have definately helped, but you could see where people had been sinking pretty deep with snowshoes as well in places below timber line.

(I should have also mentioned that we drove a standard Xterra up to the last switchback before gaining the ridge. We drove to within 2.5 miles of the lake.)


jmanner
User
Perfect...
4/27/2014 10:53pm
...condition update. I am sure it will be very useful for the folks that go up there this coming weekend.



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