Route Climbed: Mill Creek Route Date Climbed: August 2004
As suggested, this is a long day, and steep ascent over poortly marked trails. Start your day early so you don't encounter twilight on the way down and miss the trail (as we did for a little while). Rewarding, if long, day!
Route Climbed: Grizzly Gulch - Silver Creek Date Climbed: June 2004
Carried an sixty pound pack to the summit of Redcloud training for Rainier. Beautiful summit until Alpine Master told me he put a 5lb rock in my pack at the trailhead. Just to spite him I continued to carry it over to the summit of Sunshine Peak and back to the trailhead. A nice trip!
Route Climbed: Mill Creek Date Climbed: July 9, 2004
We had to basically follow cairns all the way up due to little or no triail. Long climb to a summit that has good views of Redcloud, Wetterhorn, and Uncompahgre
Route Climbed: Up Silver Creek, down East Ridge Date Climbed: August 6, 2004
Good climb under great weather. Summited an unnamed 13er and Redcloud before Sunshine. Many thanks to Aaron Johnson for excellent beta on Mill Creek descent; it came in handy as I bailed down the East Ridge due to a relatively late summit.
Route Climbed: Silver Creek (over Redcloud) Date Climbed: July 2, 2004
Ridge traverse was really nice and easy. Perfect weather the whole time. We spent about 30 minutes on the summit of Sunshine before heading down.
A couple of us took the 'Do Not Descend' route from the saddle instead of going back to Redcloud. My advice....go back to Redcloud. The route down is doable but certainly loose and dangerous. If you aren't experienced on dirt, scree, and loose rock don't even attempt it. In a large party it would certainly be easy to take a fall or get hit by rockfall.
Route Climbed: via Redcloud from Silver Creek Date Climbed: 07/08/04
What an amazing day! We saw some really beautiful flowers and met some nice people. The ridge traverse was really great. A mere hour (each way)! I didn't mind a bit! Often when we do combos, I stand at the top of the first mountain and think, "maybe we should just do that one some other day..." Today, however, I thought, "WOW! That looks close! No problem!" and I was right! I just really had an enjoyable day today. We had a GREAT camping spot the night before at the trailhead and I slept like a log...that probably helped!
Route Climbed: Sliver Creek via Redcloud Date Climbed: 7/6/04
We left Redcloud under beautiful skies. The hike over to Sunshine took 1:10. It was a little more of a commitment than it had looked from a top of Redcloud. It was a pretty nice trail over to Sunshine and we finally made it to the top.
Route Climbed: From Silver Creek trailhead over Redcloud Date Climbed: May 25, 2003
Climbed this one last year on a stormy morning, last May. The climb itself was no more than a hike with post-holing, save for the last few, snowy feet up to Sunshine's summit, but I was gob-smacked by the obliviousness of the other people on the mountain to the threatening weather. I'm always surprised that more people don't get killed by the weather in Colorado.
Andy - Aug 1, 2005 1:12 pm
Route Climbed: Northwest Ridge Date Climbed: July 30, 2005I hit Sunshine on my way from Sundog to Redcloud. It took me a little over three hours from trailhead over Sundog to Sunshine.
alpine master - Jul 24, 2005 5:28 pm
Route Climbed: NE Ridge Date Climbed: June 3rd 2004climbed with old ickabod in combo with Redcloud. Cool hike.
Cortez - Jul 24, 2005 1:33 pm
Route Climbed: Silver Creek over Red Cloud Date Climbed: July 3, 2001We Climbed Sunshine after summiting Red Cloud via the Silver Creek Trail the day before Independence Day.
Hiking Party:
Michael Booker
Jennifer Booker
Shiloh
Steve Color
CWFry - Jul 15, 2005 4:54 pm
Route Climbed: Mill Creek Route Date Climbed: August 2004As suggested, this is a long day, and steep ascent over poortly marked trails. Start your day early so you don't encounter twilight on the way down and miss the trail (as we did for a little while). Rewarding, if long, day!
Old Ickabod - Jul 14, 2005 10:29 pm
Route Climbed: Grizzly Gulch - Silver Creek Date Climbed: June 2004Carried an sixty pound pack to the summit of Redcloud training for Rainier. Beautiful summit until Alpine Master told me he put a 5lb rock in my pack at the trailhead. Just to spite him I continued to carry it over to the summit of Sunshine Peak and back to the trailhead. A nice trip!
doumall - Jul 13, 2005 3:22 pm
Route Climbed: South Ridge via Redcloud Date Climbed: May 30, 200511th 14er!
James C - Apr 4, 2005 7:27 pm
Route Climbed: Mill Creek Date Climbed: July 9, 2004We had to basically follow cairns all the way up due to little or no triail. Long climb to a summit that has good views of Redcloud, Wetterhorn, and Uncompahgre
ColoradoScott - Feb 7, 2005 1:15 pm
Route Climbed: North Ridge from Redcloud Date Climbed: September 3, 1986A nice solo tour in the San Juans up the Silver Creek Trail, over Redcloud from a nearby car camp.
charles97 - Jan 28, 2005 2:21 pm
Route Climbed: Silver Creek Date Climbed: September 8, 2004Easy climb from Silver Creek. Double bagging of Sunshine and Redcloud #23 & #24.
Larry V - Jan 12, 2005 10:21 pm
Route Climbed: don't remember Date Climbed: July 1978Climbed same day as Redcloud, like most people. Climbed Handies the day before.
bakcast - Dec 12, 2004 2:00 pm
Route Climbed: NW slopes, easy snow Date Climbed: June 2001What a magnificent area!
hhsilleck - Sep 13, 2004 4:50 pm
Route Climbed: traverse from Redcloud Date Climbed: September 6 2004nice high stroll along the ridge
Saintgrizzly - Aug 10, 2004 2:12 pm
Route Climbed: Traverse from Redcloud Date Climbed: August, 199?Did the usual Sunshine & Redcloud combination. Nice day in the heights!
The Lower Marmot - Aug 8, 2004 8:39 pm
Route Climbed: Up Silver Creek, down East Ridge Date Climbed: August 6, 2004Good climb under great weather. Summited an unnamed 13er and Redcloud before Sunshine. Many thanks to Aaron Johnson for excellent beta on Mill Creek descent; it came in handy as I bailed down the East Ridge due to a relatively late summit.
jrf - Jul 17, 2004 3:53 pm
Route Climbed: Silver Creek (over Redcloud) Date Climbed: July 2, 2004Ridge traverse was really nice and easy. Perfect weather the whole time. We spent about 30 minutes on the summit of Sunshine before heading down.
A couple of us took the 'Do Not Descend' route from the saddle instead of going back to Redcloud. My advice....go back to Redcloud. The route down is doable but certainly loose and dangerous. If you aren't experienced on dirt, scree, and loose rock don't even attempt it. In a large party it would certainly be easy to take a fall or get hit by rockfall.
Speedy - Jul 16, 2004 1:10 am
Route Climbed: via Redcloud from Silver Creek Date Climbed: 07/08/04What an amazing day! We saw some really beautiful flowers and met some nice people. The ridge traverse was really great. A mere hour (each way)! I didn't mind a bit! Often when we do combos, I stand at the top of the first mountain and think, "maybe we should just do that one some other day..." Today, however, I thought, "WOW! That looks close! No problem!" and I was right! I just really had an enjoyable day today. We had a GREAT camping spot the night before at the trailhead and I slept like a log...that probably helped!
Bryan W - Jul 13, 2004 11:35 am
Route Climbed: Sliver Creek via Redcloud Date Climbed: 7/6/04We left Redcloud under beautiful skies. The hike over to Sunshine took 1:10. It was a little more of a commitment than it had looked from a top of Redcloud. It was a pretty nice trail over to Sunshine and we finally made it to the top.
Ratballs - Jun 24, 2004 11:44 pm
Route Climbed: From Silver Creek trailhead over Redcloud Date Climbed: May 25, 2003Climbed this one last year on a stormy morning, last May. The climb itself was no more than a hike with post-holing, save for the last few, snowy feet up to Sunshine's summit, but I was gob-smacked by the obliviousness of the other people on the mountain to the threatening weather. I'm always surprised that more people don't get killed by the weather in Colorado.
I have a trip-report (long, as always) here.
mountainmota - Jun 15, 2004 7:33 pm
Route Climbed: Standard Date Climbed: July 2002Easy 14er!
DaveC - May 21, 2004 9:38 pm
Route Climbed: over from redcloud Date Climbed: aug 97in threatening clouds, but no prob. my 10th 14er. descended past a sign that read, 'do not descend' heinous scree, but shorter.