Mount Sopris Climber's Log

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edmdais1

edmdais1 - Oct 16, 2021 5:13 pm Date Climbed: Jun 20, 2021

Thomas Lakes approach  Sucess!

Did it as day hike. Long day but one of the most amazing hike I have done.

rockymountaindiva

rockymountaindiva - Sep 6, 2021 2:56 pm Date Climbed: Aug 25, 2021

Gorgeous day  Sucess!

Just did the east summit from Thomas Lakes, where we had a beautiful campsite. Had to pack up and get back to town same day so didn't do both summits.

rbuswold - Jun 12, 2021 4:39 am Date Climbed: Jun 11, 2021

Beautiful Weather On Sopris  Sucess!

Great day, very little snow on route.

ToTheHeights

ToTheHeights - Feb 13, 2018 10:35 am Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2016

Such a cool mountain  Sucess!

7/16/16 w/Cory Martin on a perfect July morning

Sarah Simon

Sarah Simon - Aug 7, 2017 12:45 pm Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2017

Standard Thomas Lakes Route  Sucess!

Spent the night in Carbondale and headed up this hill with Logan. What a beautiful mountain! Great day, only rained on the last 3 miles of my decent. I wore running gear and just hit the gas back to the Jeep. Sorry for late starters getting thundered on! Great mountain!

seano

seano - May 31, 2017 1:34 pm Date Climbed: May 30, 2017

East bowl  Sucess!

Quick morning jaunt. It looked like nice skiing, though the bowl softens up early.

chicagotransplant

chicagotransplant - Apr 25, 2016 11:10 am Date Climbed: Apr 23, 2016

Thomas Lakes Ski  Sucess!

4/23/16: With Craig, Colin, Stan and Jeff. Skinned up Thomas Lakes Bowl and skied back down from the summit. Windy on the summit ridge, but nice in the bowl with good snow conditions. Lost the trail on the way out and ended up below the TH near Dinkle Lake, luckily it was only a short walk back.

4/15/17: With Rachael, Craig, Stan, Ben, Eliot and Brian. Skinned and skied Thomas Lakes Bowl in good condition. Much drier down low than last year, a lot of dry in the first 2 miles and a lot of ski carrying through that stretch as a result.

Mike D' - Apr 3, 2016 11:06 pm Date Climbed: Aug 15, 2007

Great Success  Sucess!

Started hiking ~10am, straightforward on the trail then up the ridge of basketball sized rocks...awesome views toward Capitol Peak...afternoon thunderheads forming kept me from running over to the northern peak, good call.

SarahThompson

SarahThompson - May 25, 2015 11:26 pm Date Climbed: May 23, 2015

Std Route from Thomas Lakes  Sucess!

Boatloads of new snow up high! Very enjoyable hike.

Liba Kopeckova

Liba Kopeckova - Apr 14, 2015 7:25 pm Date Climbed: Apr 14, 2015

Ski Thomas Lakes Bowl  Sucess!

A fun route - the approach trail was still covered with snow, frozen in am, and I just carried my skis and boots on my backpacks and ran up to the lakes in my running shoes. Skinned up from the lakes, there were several skiers on the route. Windy on the summit, nice views and amazing descent - 4000 feet of skiing, the snow warmed up and I skied almost to the parking lot.

Incliner

Incliner - Aug 3, 2014 1:47 pm Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2014

perfect july summit  Sucess!

east. combo next time.

Kessler

Kessler - Jul 14, 2014 5:23 pm Date Climbed: Jun 29, 2014

Sopris  Sucess!

6-29-2014

Scott

Scott - Jun 30, 2014 7:12 pm Date Climbed: Jun 29, 2014

Sopris  Sucess!

June 28-29 2014

June 28

After rafting Roaring Fork, Kessler and I set off for Mount Sopris. We started early evening and hiked up to Thomas Lakes. It was a popular place! It was a rough night as well. Kessler threw up a few times (probably the results of Chinese food in Basalt) and I didn't sleep at all due to allergies. It was an unusually warm and windy night as well and the temperature never dropped below 49F (which is unusual for this altitude).

June 29

Because of the rough night, we rose rather late and were dragging a bit on our ascent. We still made steady progress to the East Summit of Mount Sopris. There were only a few snowfields to cross.

Once on the East Summit of Sopris, we ate lunch before traversing over to the West Summit. Once on the West Summit we returned to near the saddle between the two peaks and glissaded off the north face. It was a good glissade down to the basin below.

We then followed the drainage downwards and to another glissade. It was much steeper than I expected so we did the glissade in a permanent self arrest position. We could still stop by kicking in.

Once at the bottom of the next basin, we had to make our way back towards Thomas Lakes. We climbed partially on snow up to the saddle near Point 11425. The section without snow was really tedious.

We then crossed the rock glacier to the ridge above Thomas Lakes. The rock glacier was extremely slow going and we wished the route had been covered in snow. We then followed the ridge above Thomas Lakes until we could descend very steeply in the trees and down to another rock glacier, which was also a pain to cross in order to get to the lakes.

This descent route was really steep, strenuous, and tedious, even though the difficulty never exceeded class 3. It is not recommended unless covered in snow. On the plus side we got a really good view of the seldom-viewed-up-close north face of East Sopris, which is really spectacular.

After reaching the lakes, the final task was to follow the nice trail to the trailhead, but after our strenuous route, it seemed long even though it wasn't.

It was still a good climb, but next time we'll do it earlier season. The weather was perfect as well with no threat whatsoever of thunderstorms.

Incidentally, our camera died and we didn't get any photographs. This was a real shame since we could have gotten some really great photos.

December 2002

I was working on a highway project near Carbondale that got shut down a day for bad weather. Despite the late start, I decided to attempt Sopris, or at least to attempt to get as close as possible.

The weather was pretty windy and cold, and with blowing snow, but it wasn't too hard to get up to Thompson Lakes. The route and conditions got tougher after this and in the fading daylight and poor visibility, I turned around at Point 12,453, 500 feet below the summit. It was dark before I descended to timberline.

GrumpyJohn

GrumpyJohn - Apr 21, 2014 12:17 am Date Climbed: Apr 19, 2014

Nice skiing  Sucess!

Skied the East bowl. Good times.

EndlessPat

EndlessPat - Sep 17, 2013 6:07 pm Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2013

One Day  Sucess!

I moved to Glenwood Springs and it's impossible to ignore this peak, I'm glad I got it done.

belexes

belexes - Sep 9, 2013 4:37 pm Date Climbed: Sep 8, 2013

Thomas Lakes  Sucess!

Climbed it with Marco. We camped in the parking lot among the mooing cows. I had pitched my tent nearby, but a herd of cattle came into the parking lot around sunset, so I decided to take down my tent and sleep under the stars next to the car. They were mooing as loud as they could, you could hear it echoing off the mountains. ~5AM start, and we were planning on just being satisfied with East Sopris only, but we made good time getting there, and the weather looked good, so we quickly tagged West Sopris, then took a short break back on East Sopris before heading down. It was a tough day, but it was worth it, and good prep for bigger climbs next weekend.

myrone

myrone - Nov 3, 2012 8:58 am Date Climbed: Oct 27, 2012

From Thomas Lakes TH  Sucess!

Started up at 6:44am reached Sopris East at 11:26 then over to Sopris West at 12:01pm back to the TH at 4:30. Windy but beautiful on this fine autumn day on this long admired mountain...... Sweet!

ajberry

ajberry - Oct 27, 2012 5:32 pm Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2007

A fine mountain...  Sucess!

With Katie and Megan, both 10. Day trip via Thomas Lakes.

chicagotransplant

chicagotransplant - Oct 16, 2011 5:09 pm Date Climbed: Oct 15, 2011

Thomas Lakes  Sucess!

Climbed both summits via the trail from Thomas Lakes. Have admired this peak for years, it was nice to finally stand upon its summit and admire the view!

Kristin5berry

Kristin5berry - Sep 19, 2011 6:18 pm Date Climbed: Sep 19, 2011

From the lakes  Sucess!

With my friends dog Cooper,who enjoyed the swimming

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