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UN 13117 "Cupid" Climber's Log

duncano_20 - Jul 31, 2024 4:09 pm Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2024

Grays and Torreys via Loveland Pass

First peak of the day! Nice and easy.

eferesen - Feb 25, 2024 3:13 pm Date Climbed: Feb 24, 2024

Cold Cold day

Hiked Sniktau and Cupid. Very windy and cold day

aakers - Dec 12, 2023 3:38 pm Date Climbed: Nov 21, 2023

Loveland Pass Peaks Traverse

Started early at 5:20AM, and witnessed a beautiful sunrise over the valley and backlit snow blowing off of Torrey's Peak. The ridgeline, past Cupid especially, was quite windy, as is to be expected. Summited Grizzly by 8AM, with a wonderful panorama of the Front Range mountains and A-Basin and Keystone Ski Areas. Finished the day out with a quick Sniktau summit before the snow got terribly soft.

hgrapid - Jul 18, 2022 12:04 pm Date Climbed: Jul 17, 2022

Simple hike from Loveland Pass

Busy trailhead parking. Got up there in less than an hour, starting from just below the pass.

JesseSumrak - Jun 8, 2021 6:56 pm Date Climbed: Jun 5, 2021

Cupid + Grizzly + Sniktau

Relatively easy hike to bag 3 13'ers. Started from Loveland Pass with crew Ben and Andrea alongside me (more like dragging me along the whole time). Good warmup hike for the adventures for the rest of the summer. Started up and tagged Cupid, then slogged our way up Grizzly before making our way back the way we came to get Sniktau. Fun day with very little wind. Couldn't beat the conditions.

BKiser90 - Jun 5, 2021 12:08 pm Date Climbed: Jun 5, 2021

Cupid, Grizzly, Sniktau

First 13ers of the season. Very little snow to worry about. Great views. Sunny.

corsair - Nov 19, 2019 8:49 am Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2019

Great Warmup climb

Great warm up for climbing fourteeners later in the week. Views are magnificent!

Jay Moon - Aug 21, 2017 6:00 pm Date Climbed: Aug 21, 2017

Ridge Run

Climbed it as part of a high ridge run from Loveland Pass TH to Torreys & back.

danegarreau - Jun 25, 2017 2:41 pm Date Climbed: May 31, 2017

2nd 13er

5/31/2017-------Mount Sniktau and “Cupid” Peak: Colorado----13,235’ and 13, 117’
This is my first 13er and I’m not going to lie; I was intimidated before we began this hike. I could feel that my breathing was labored last night as soon as we got to Georgetown. At 8500’ this would be the highest that I’ve ever slept before. So then the ride to the trailhead also freaked me out a little. Yikes!!!!!! The twists and turns!!!

Onto the hike…….Scott and I left the trailhead at 6:30am. The temperature was in the low 30s and there was snow everywhere! We began up to the main ridge, which is crazy steep! We labored but we were able to get to the T-junction (Pt. 12,915) in a very decent time. It was here that we met 69 year old Richard Scott. We would take turns overtaking one another but sharing stories and chatted about the hike each time we passed. Great conversation with someone who has been hiking these mountains since the 1950s! As far as I could tell we were the only ones to summit at this point in the morning and we didn’t pass anyone on the way back down either.

Turning left we went over towards Sniktau and it seemed very easy until we got to the false summit. The real summit was quite steep but there was no reason to put on the microspikes, the snow was still pretty firm but not slick. We would summit Sniktau at 8:52am. Richard Scott summited about 10 minutes later and we shared more stories. What an amazing hike!!!! I’m almost 30 years old and this is the most snow that I’ve ever seen in my life!

From here we headed back down to the T-junction and stayed straight to go towards “Cupid.” The route was very straight forward and we summited at 10:47am.

On the way back down the mountain it started snowing on us!!!! Perfect trip!!!
o Begin at 11,990’, summit Sniktau at 13,234’, back down to Pt. 12,915, then summit “Cupid” at 13, 117’.
o 7 miles round trip
o Combined total of over 2200’ of elevation gain.

Shaylee - Sep 22, 2016 10:53 pm Date Climbed: Aug 14, 2016

Cupid

8-14-16

Kessler - Sep 22, 2016 10:48 pm Date Climbed: Aug 14, 2016

Cupid

8-14-2016

Scott - Aug 20, 2016 9:16 pm Date Climbed: Aug 14, 2016

Cupid

February 2 2023

On my way back from Denver, I stopped at Loveland Pass to climb Cupid Peak. It was of course cold and windy, but still a nice climb.

August 14 2016

Shaylee, Kessler, Kimberly and I climbed Mount Sniktau and Cupid Peak from Loveland Pass. We got a fairly late start, but the weather was beautiful. There was some smoke and haze in the air, but there was no threat of thunderstorms.

We climbed Sniktau first, passing over unranked 13,152 along the way. Along the way we saw one marmot and many pikas.

After climbed Sniktau, we returned to Wishbone Pass and climbed Cupid. We watched an entertaining marmot on the summit while we were eating our lunch. Kim didn't want to continue on to Grizzly Peak, so we returned. Kim and I took the bypass trail around Wishbone Trail, while the kids took the longer way over Wishbone Pass again. We met at the junction.

It was a good hike.