lone peak 2013

Is it cirque season yet? How much snow is up there? Anyone have pictures?

head on up and let us all know earl!! pics or it didn't happen...

Lone Peak from Draper

Here's a picture from point of the mountain / draper... bring your gaiters and boots!

Out of town until june. Still a lot of snow up there. Thanks for the pic.

Well, here's what the cirque looked like last time I was up there. . . which was mid-January. Sorry, I guess that doesn't help much!

Lone Peak cirque 1/13/13

Looks like a lot of snow melted up there over the weekend. However, I wasn't able to get a super good look as I was driving past. Still enough in the cirque for water. Not sure if it's too much to make a safe descent from the summit.

This is the latest TR I've seen from up Lone Peak.

bogley.com/forum/showthread…

Thanks for posting! Looks like a couple more weeks until the approach to base of Triple Overhangs is doable in approach shoes.

Higher elevations are getting pounded with snow right now... Might delay things a bit more.

Boissal wrote:Higher elevations are getting pounded with snow right now... Might delay things a bit more.

It was definitely nuking above 8k today.

I was up around Brighton today and there was quite a bit of snow falling for most of the afternoon. It was very wet and heavy but not a huge amount of it stuck. I imagine the new snow will melt out by the weekend if the predicted sunshine gets out.

The Asian dude at IME sandbagged us into checking out Lone Peak cirque yesterday. There was about five inches of fresh snow from the day before. No moats or 'schrunds yet at the base of the walls. It didn't look like anyone has been there yet this season. We did the approach from Jacob's ladder in sneakers, and crampons would have been nice to have getting to the routes. We're around for a few more days and hope to meet some more locals at the SLCA party tonight!

Summit walls

Question Mark wall

Pete's Staircase/descent

Summit wall approach

Center Thumb

Snow in the cirque

nineplusplus wrote:The Asian dude at IME sandbagged us

I refuse to accept this.

The Asian dude at IME sandbagged us
I refuse to accept this.

HAHAHAHAHA!

It's not sandbagging when it's the Asian dude at IME, it's more like incomprehension.

My experience, with said Asian dude, could have been a sandbag.
After a hellish week of soul and body crushing work, he was like "dude, come up, it'll be rad, we'll have an asada, I'll carry everything, it'll be great."
I asked, How long does it take to get up there?
He said, "Oh, well, it takes me 45 minutes to an hour..."

Alex Quitiquit wrote: I refuse to accept this.

Agreed, said person would do no such thing out of malicious intent.

nineplusplus wrote:The Asian dude at IME...

I'm still laughing at this.

that asian girl at IME told me I should either check out some south facing climbs in Red Rocks or the Elephant's perch should be in great shape right now.

So... I've never been up in the cirque. Anyone know when prime time would be? I'm hoping to spend a few days there this June.

nineplusplus wrote:The Asian dude at IME sandbagged us into checking out Lone Peak cirque yesterday.

If yer not smart enough to figure out that Lone Peak is at +10k and that that freezing level was down that low last week then you deserved to be sandbagged by that "Asian dude" at IME.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Yeah, well I've been sand bagged a lot, over the years by that old Caucasian dude working there.

bsmoot wrote:Yeah, well I've been sand bagged a lot, over the years by that old Caucasian dude working there.

Which one?

Ha ha!