any info on the quartzville site access from the east side of Lincoln?

I haven’t seen many updates from that side. Not sure about the access, but the snow looks great all the way down for skiing purposes.

Went up on the 9th. Looks like people are starting to make it up to around 1/2 mile below the TH if they drive up after the sun has a chance to soften the snow on the road. That said, definitely go around this thing. The snow and ice covering parts of it were strong enough to hold me crossing in snowshoes around 630am, but on the way back it won’t hold. The creek IS running quickly, about 4 feet deep, and maybe 4-5 feet across, but I can’t be sure where its actual banks are under the snow right now. I thought I could step across at about 2pm. Wrong. It was cold and not easy to get out of. Lucky I’m pretty tall (6’3") and was able to crawl out despite my snowshoes still being on my feet. For a smaller person, you could easily get trapped in the stream and swept under the snow and road further down. It looked like a few other people had done the partial-polar plunge before me too. Beware. Also, stay out of the center of the large drainages. It sounds like most of them have raging torrents under the snow. Im going to give the high country another 2 weeks to dry out before I go again. The temperature differences between night and day mixed with the huge amounts of snow on the ground are making things too interesting for me.

Thanks, Relative. You’re right about the hidden streams. I noticed that on my afternoon return. I was amazed at how loud the rush of water was all around me under the snow. That stuff up there near the trailhead is definitely ultra sketchy. I’m glad your little plunge didn’t go any worse than that and it was on your way back down. That would be pretty scary. I am a smaller dude, so I was pretty nervous about getting anywhere near that thing. It’s tempting to make a jump across it, but you just can’t tell where the other side is. Not worth it at all.
Stay safe out there.

I don’t know why, but my sleep and sugar deprived brain thought the whole ordeal was hilarious. I even have a video I took of myself falling through. Looking over all the pictures and videos I took of that stream though, I realize how dangerous it was. Especially after seeing how much water was passing through the 4 culverts under the road further down (this is where you want to get to the right of the stream, if you are reading this for beta). I remember I was coming down the democrat side of the standard route and went over to the next drainage to the left (looking down at Kite Lake) to see if I could get a standing–slide going when I noticed all I could hear was raging water. That freaked me out a bit and I moved over to the exposed rocks between said drainage and the standard route. I was also amazed that all the tracks that were made by myself and a few other people on the way up were completely gone from melting in only a few hours. That said, unless you’re climbing up LONG before sunrise, don’t even waste time carrying crampons. Snowshoes got me all the way to the democrat–cameron saddle, at which point I turned around to avoid most of the slush–fest of a late descent. In the spring I don’t climb to summit, I climb to get back into shape and have some fun glissading .