| Peak: | Gladstone Peak |
| Route: | East Face |
| Range: | San Juan |
| Posted By: | dwoodward13 |
| Date of Info: | 7/2/2020 |
| Date Posted: | 7/2/2020 |
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This is a fantastic route and should be the standard route if you have orphaned it from Wilson Peak. Snow ramps are in excellent condition to cruise on up. I brought both spikes and pons and started with spikes but switched to pons as I just felt more comfortable on the steeper snow slopes. HikerGuys TR is an excellent resource and I basically followed it to the T. Only comment to make is after crossing between the two snowfields on the very upper face, head further toward the ridge, almost to the ridge itself, there is really solid lichen covered rock. Was able to boot ski/glissade the snow ramps descending. Left at 5am, summit at 9am, back to car at 1230pm Pic 1 overview from afar Pic 2 snow ramp Pic 3 upper face. Yellow is what I took up and is slightly looser than red I took down   
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