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| astrobassman | Hopeful Couloir  Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2008 | |
| Great day on a moderate couloir. We exited to the left and the couloir was approximately 45 degrees. | |
| Posted Jun 30, 2008 12:02 pm | ||
| Kiefer Thomas | via Sheep Gulch Date Climbed: Jun 29, 2008 | |
| Just your standard Sawatch faire. The trail in to Hope Pass was outright beautiful! Headed over and hiked up Quail Mountain as well. The cabins at the top were a bit of a surprise! | |
| Posted Jun 30, 2008 2:22 am | ||
| heather14 | Hopeful Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2008 | |
| Great day, fun climb. We had the mountain to ourselves! | |
| Posted Jun 24, 2008 1:23 am | ||
| SarahThompson | Twice including Hopeful Couloir Date Climbed: Oct 8, 2006 | |
| 10/8/06 - Sheep Gulch approach to East Ridge. The trail up Sheep Gulch is steep but very efficient. Climbed both Hope & Quail in crappy weather. No views to be had. 6/6/09 - Sheep Gulch approach to Hopeful Couloir. Easy snow climb with great views. Very windy day. | |
| Posted May 23, 2008 3:01 pm | ||
| MountainHikerCO | Sheep Gulch / Quail Date Climbed: Jul 22, 1995 | |
| This was my first time climbing Hope. I climbed from the Sheep Gulch trailhead & also went over and got Quail on this trip. I climbed Hope again on 7-20-02 with MountainHikerette. | |
| Posted Mar 11, 2008 10:36 pm | ||
| Eric Holle | East Ridge Date Climbed: Aug 26, 2007 | |
| Ascended the amazing East Ridge from Sheep Gulch, didn't press on to Quail with worsening weather moving in. Can't wait to be back in that area. | |
| Posted Aug 27, 2007 11:22 pm | ||
| RonHopson | Tour de Hope Date Climbed: Aug 8, 2007 | |
| 4 gals and 2 guys from the Summit Co Seniors ("Mtn Goats") climbed the east ridge from Willis Gulch Trailhead in 4 hours. We descended the NE ridge in 3. Awesome views, soft lower trail, fun scrambles on the east ridge. | |
| Posted Aug 9, 2007 9:30 am | ||
| slowbutsteady | Brief summit stay Date Climbed: Jul 19, 1997 | |
| Up the Sheep Gulch trail at 6:20am, on top at 11:50. The headwall at the end of the grassy approach had too much snow. I had to try several spots to find a way up the false summit. An approaching storm made stay on summit brief. | |
| Posted Jul 27, 2007 3:43 pm | ||
| jrf | East Ridge Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2007 | |
| Awesome mountain. Very steep hike with some loose talus for the last few hundred feet but very rewarding. The views of the surrounding peaks are fantastic. Took about 3.5 hours to reach the summit via the Sheep Gulch TH. | |
| Posted Jun 25, 2007 5:19 pm | ||
| altitude14er | Route Climbed: N.East Ridge via Willis Gulch TH Date Climbed: Jun 2, 2007 | |
| A half mile below the lake at 11,780ft. and the trail dissappeared underneath the snow. Followed the creek to the lake & contemplated doing Hopeful Couloir, snow was too wet & soft so I opted for plan B - the N.East Ridge. A challenging 13er! | |
| Posted Jun 3, 2007 12:39 pm | ||
| chicagotransplant | Hopeful Date Climbed: May 19, 2007 | |
| Climbed with Shanahan96 and two of my friends from Crested Butte. Like Jamie said, great climb, great day. I have been eyeing this couloir for years and was glad to get it with good continuous snow! | |
| Posted May 20, 2007 5:37 pm | ||
| shanahan96 | hopeful couloir Date Climbed: May 19, 2007 | |
| 1/6/12- completed a winter climb of hope with aaron. hiked in from sheep gulch TH towards hope pass before veering west to gain the SE ridge @13,600'. a beautiful, bluebird day! 5/19/07- nine people on a thirteener in one day? they must be gaining popularity! climbed from sheep gulch(south) TH. it was a real steep, and much enjoyed, grunt from the start. glissaded from the pass to the base of the couloir. couloir was sweet! around 1200-1300' vertical and started around 35-38 degrees while getting progressively steeper the entire way. the last 150' was 47-48 degrees and topped out just below the summit. got a couple good, fair-sized glissades off the southeast face, roughly 1300-1500' in all. nice way to get back to treeline! can't wait to go back for quail in the fall. jamie | |
| Posted May 20, 2007 1:11 pm | ||
| Brian Kalet | Hopeful Couloir Date Climbed: May 20, 2006 | |
| Skied ~1' from the summit. En route to Quail Mountain | |
| Posted May 22, 2006 2:56 pm | ||
| Matt Mahoney | Route Climbed: E ridge from Twin Lakes Date Climbed: June 26, 2005 | |
| The hardest part of the climb was crossing the river at Twin Lakes. It was about 100 ft. wide, 4 ft. deep, cold, and moving pretty fast. I avoided it on the return by going over the bridge at Parry campground. The ridge from Hope Pass has a lot of class 2+ loose rocks (one of which gashed my leg when it rolled out from under me). On the summit I was tempted to find an easier descent on the gentle grass slopes to the south to escape the cold and pellet snow. Don't do this. After descending several hundred feet I found myself surrounded by cliffs, cornices and nasty loose talus, and had to go back up to the ridge to retrace my ascent route. | |
| Posted Jun 28, 2005 8:29 pm | ||
| miztflip | Route Climbed: Southeast Ridge Date Climbed: May 29, 2005 | |
| Great hike on mostly dry ground. Descended the East Ridge route under worsening weather and decided to forego Quail. Nice route. | |
| Posted May 30, 2005 1:13 pm | ||
| Brad Snider | Route Climbed: Southeast Ridge Date Climbed: May 14, 2005 | |
| Nice day, nice trail, nice views. Wet snow! | |
| Posted May 14, 2005 10:53 pm | ||
| Saintgrizzly | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: August, 1997 | |
| This is a wonderful mountain; very surprising so few summit logs signed! Great mountain to climb if you wish to be alone. Did so with Aaron Johnson and Elizabeth, my girlfriend at the time. | |
| Posted Jul 28, 2004 1:40 am | ||
| RyanS | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: May 9, 2004 | |
| Tough hike with the conditions! The snow on the trail was good in the morning, but it softened quickly. Hope's upper difficulties surprised me, given its standard class 2 rating, and we found ourselves on numerous sections of class 3 during our ascent. On the way down, we found easier sections and faced only one or two third-class moves. After returning to Hope Pass, we hiked up Quail Mtn. on dry ground and returned to the pass in one hour flat! The snow was in terrible condition along the way down, and we postholed most of the way from the pass to 11,000' on the trail. We were tempted by potential glissades several times throughout the day, but our heads prevailed over our desire to relieve our knees. Our fears about the snow's condition were confirmed along the way back to the TH, as we spied a number of wet slab avalanches that had occurred while we were climbing. A trip report is available here. | |
| Posted May 9, 2004 11:46 am | ||
| Ryan Kowalski | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: October 18, 2002 | |
| This is a STEEP hike. I definitley recommend adding Quail Mountain onto the trip because of the views. For some reason Mount Hope really kicked my butt even though I wasn't too out of shape. | |
| Posted Apr 19, 2004 4:37 pm | ||
| Kane | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: July of 2001 | |
| Mount Hope is a beatiful mountain. The view from hwy 82 at Twin Lakes is inspiring. I remember more about this hike than many of the more popular 14er I have climbed in the area. There are beautiful wildflowers off to the south of the summit. The view of Huron Peak is awesome as well. | |
| Posted Jun 8, 2003 9:16 am | ||
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