| Peak: | Sunlight Peak |
| Route: | South Face |
| Range: | San Juan |
| Posted By: | RBeaudry |
| Date of Info: | 7/5/2019 |
| Date Posted: | 7/8/2019 |
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Summer conditions for Purgatory Creek (one dodgy creek crossing along Animas River Trail), mild avalanche debris near and in Chicago basin- easily passed and new trails are forming from foot traffic. Lower Basin to Upper Basin has a lot of moving water and more avalanche debris. Caution is warranted when crossing snow/ice bridges. Spring/winter conditions from the lakes up- lakes are still frozen over. Eolus S/N is an easy bash up snow until the saddle. Saddle on, both routes are effectively dry. Sun hits the snow by 6:30 am, conditions deteriorate rapidly on the shallow slopes. Rock fall is mostly trivial, remaining snow is mostly isolated to snow fields. Sunlight- As Eolus, snow bash up until the final scramble portion. Snow remains in better condition into the mid morning. Sunlight Spire- appeared to be snow on the class 2 traverse to base of the spire- did not approach or climb (but carried a rack from Purgatory Creek...) Windom- Snow until you gain the ridge, ridge is mostly clear. Tread lightly- the trails are sensitive to erosion with all the melt water! Pics - Looking East of Eolus down at the upper snow fields, looking to the upper basin between Sunlight and Windom, and finally a shot of the Windom Ridge looking South off of Sunlight Peak.   
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