Mount Hope Climber's Log

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altitude14er

altitude14er - Jun 3, 2007 12:39 pm Date Climbed: Jun 2, 2007

Route Climbed: N.East Ridge via Willis Gulch TH  Sucess!

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!

chicagotransplant

chicagotransplant - May 20, 2007 5:37 pm Date Climbed: May 19, 2007

Hopeful  Sucess!

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!

shanahan96

shanahan96 - May 20, 2007 1:11 pm Date Climbed: May 19, 2007

hopeful couloir  Sucess!

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

Brian Kalet

Brian Kalet - May 22, 2006 2:56 pm Date Climbed: May 20, 2006

Hopeful Couloir  Sucess!

Skied ~1' from the summit. En route to Quail Mountain

Matt Mahoney - Jun 28, 2005 8:29 pm

Route Climbed: E ridge from Twin Lakes Date Climbed: June 26, 2005  Sucess!

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.

miztflip

miztflip - May 30, 2005 1:13 pm

Route Climbed: Southeast Ridge Date Climbed: May 29, 2005  Sucess!

Great hike on mostly dry ground. Descended the East Ridge route under worsening weather and decided to forego Quail. Nice route.

Brad Snider

Brad Snider - May 14, 2005 10:53 pm

Route Climbed: Southeast Ridge Date Climbed: May 14, 2005  Sucess!

Nice day, nice trail, nice views. Wet snow!

Saintgrizzly

Saintgrizzly - Jul 28, 2004 1:40 am

Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: August, 1997  Sucess!

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.

RyanS

RyanS - May 9, 2004 11:46 am

Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: May 9, 2004  Sucess!

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.

Ryan Kowalski

Ryan Kowalski - Apr 19, 2004 4:37 pm

Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: October 18, 2002  Sucess!

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.

Kane

Kane - Jun 8, 2003 9:16 am

Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: July of 2001  Sucess!

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.

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