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 Peak:  Mt. Yale
 Route:  Southwest Slopes
 Range:  Sawatch
 Posted By:  Zmacchi
 Date of Info:  5/26/2015
 Date Posted:  5/28/2015
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Climbed Brown's Pass to the West but didn't attempt to summit Yale. Trail mostly clear with intermittent, passable snow patches not requiring flotation. Easily accessible to Yale/Brown's Pass/Hartenstein Lake fork despite the muck. Flotation was absolutely necessary at about 11,000 feet on Brown's Pass trail. I'd expect Yale is very similar at that altitude.


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youngk2844
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Snow on Yale
6/2/2015 12:30pm
I climbed Yale East Ridge on 5/29–30. Zmacchi was right on with needing floatation at 11,000. From 10,500 you will start to post hole. Of course, it’s all melting pretty fast. On the ridge, the snow is firm in the morning but gets slushy very fast. You may want snowshoes on the way down for some of the flat spots and watch the steep slopes as steps kicked in on the way up become soft on the way down.



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