Have you/know anyone who may have utilized South Ridge via the tail on the sawtooth ridge? Comfortable w/ class three, but a few areas in slope angle shading make me skeptical of the feasibility.
Difficult scramble through alot of brush, climbs over (sometimes loose) granite boulders and ledges to the top. Views were amazing throughout. No snow anywhere at all.
sprosseda - Aug 11, 2011 12:10 pm Date Climbed: Jul 27, 2011
NW Ridge and N face
Just summitted Hilton the day before so I was a little wiped out. Took NW ridge from Old Caribou lks trail. Lots of ups and downs on ridge towers. Then dropped down steep rock gully to N face snow slopes. Easy snow and scramble to summit from there. Great view of white Trinities, and lots of snow this year. Took snow slopes down N face then XC through trees and slabs back up to old caribou trail at about 7,000 ft. Bathed in creek crossing near trailhead. Great views, wild envirnoment, very isolated. Nice!
Summitted via two routes. One was a moderate scramble (class 4) from Caribou lake. The other, while not to the summit of Caribou itself, climbed a wonderful granite dome towering above Josephine Lake with Captain Insane-o. Some of the best climbing I've ever experienced.
jfelts0424 - Sep 16, 2019 5:02 pm
Re: Technical and non-TechnicalHave you/know anyone who may have utilized South Ridge via the tail on the sawtooth ridge? Comfortable w/ class three, but a few areas in slope angle shading make me skeptical of the feasibility.
miah66 - Jul 8, 2014 3:00 pm Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2014
Approach from 8,118Difficult scramble through alot of brush, climbs over (sometimes loose) granite boulders and ledges to the top. Views were amazing throughout. No snow anywhere at all.
sprosseda - Aug 11, 2011 12:10 pm Date Climbed: Jul 27, 2011
NW Ridge and N faceJust summitted Hilton the day before so I was a little wiped out. Took NW ridge from Old Caribou lks trail. Lots of ups and downs on ridge towers. Then dropped down steep rock gully to N face snow slopes. Easy snow and scramble to summit from there. Great view of white Trinities, and lots of snow this year. Took snow slopes down N face then XC through trees and slabs back up to old caribou trail at about 7,000 ft. Bathed in creek crossing near trailhead. Great views, wild envirnoment, very isolated. Nice!
AriehDavid - Apr 13, 2011 12:00 pm Date Climbed: Sep 4, 2001
Technical and non-TechnicalSummitted via two routes. One was a moderate scramble (class 4) from Caribou lake. The other, while not to the summit of Caribou itself, climbed a wonderful granite dome towering above Josephine Lake with Captain Insane-o. Some of the best climbing I've ever experienced.
Bubba Suess - Dec 17, 2010 1:56 am
Awesome TrinitiesClimbed Caribou Peak with my friend Mike, from Texas.