| Peak: | Little Bear Peak |
| Route: | West Ridge and Hourglass |
| Range: | Sangre de Cristo |
| Posted By: | thebeave7 |
| Date of Info: | 7/1/2016 |
| Date Posted: | 7/4/2016 |
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Lake Como Rd is in fine shape, insanely rocky and technical as always. Started hiking just before Jaws 1 around 10200ft. The approach gully from Como Lake to the SW face is completely snow free and just dirt. Same for the traverse over to the Hourglass, snow is a non-issue. There are still several large snowfields at the base of the Hourglass. We were able to avoid them all by staying to climbers left into the base of the Hourglass. There is a fair amount of water still flowing down the Hourglass so expect some wet cold hands if you climb the gut. As of 7/1 several ropes existed in the Hourglass, one had a fairly large core shot about halfway down (green if I recall) and the orange rope had a smaller shot about 2/3 of the way down. Don't use the ropes on the ascent without being able to inspect them, as damage already exists and more could easily happen any day. The upper slope above the Hourglass was snowfree so take extreme care with rockfall. We did not do the traverse due to constant storms and tons of rain, but it looked snowfree and in good shape otherwise. |
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