TR: Sayres Peak, CO 13,738'

Trip Date: April 19, 2007

After meeting up with some Telluride friends at the trailhead, we started the slogging at 5 AM, trying to stay on the La Plata trail until we found ourselves in La Plata Gulch around sunrise. Once in the gulch, we left the trail and followed the stream straight up to the peak, despite the howling headwind and unseasonably cold temps.

Approaching the peak. We booted up the obvious couloir splitting the summits and skied the shot directly off the lookers left summit.
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...ot/sayers1.jpg

The Telluride guys kicking in the bootpack....
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...ot/sayers2.jpg

The frontrangers bringing up the rear...
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...ot/sayers3.jpg

Brrrrrr..... Pi and Eric on the Southwest summit.
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...ot/sayers4.jpg

Huron(left) and Ice Mountain.
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...ot/sayers5.jpg

Looking off the summit into La Plata gulch. Mt Elbert in background.
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s.../sayers6-1.jpg

Grizzly Peak and Snowmass in the background left.
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...ot/sayers8.jpg

Mike skiing off the summit.
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...ot/sayers9.jpg

Eric ripping it up.
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...t/sayers10.jpg

The other Eric making turns.
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...t/sayers11.jpg
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...t/sayers12.jpg

The other Eric entering the crux choke.
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...t/sayers13.jpg

Eric taking a different path.
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...t/sayers14.jpg

Pi skiing out of the choke.
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...t/sayers15.jpg

Blasting out of the bottom.
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...t/sayers16.jpg

Getting ready to head out.
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...t/sayers17.jpg

Gunning out of La Plata Gulch.
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...t/sayers18.jpg

Overall, the skiing was pretty good and the ski out was very fast. A fun day all around.:D

What is it with all you people skiing in April? Don't you know it's spring?!

And that is how to introduce yourself on tgr. :) Nice TR, a friend of mine has been talking about that line for the last couple of weeks.

Im here to say well done and thanks for sharing. And to give you your first :yourock:

Nice TR.....

...however I was looking for a big huck somewhere Ivana Huckalot. ;)

freakin sweet!

Nice! I remember looking at Sayers from La Plata last spring and admiring the lines off of it. Way to get it done!

Meh, not a 14'er. Try again. ;)

Anyone getting it done like you did is more than welcome here! Nice work and thanks for sharing.

Someone please tell me that that line on the rock face in the peak lookers right goes. That makes me happy in the pants.

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Originally Posted by Ivana Huckalot

Huron(left) and Ice Mountain.
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...ot/sayers5.jpg

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Originally Posted by SUPERSQUID69

I don't understand what you are talking about.

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That peak to the right of center - the big massive ROCK monolith. There's an obvious cleft/cooler running down the entire face just right of the peak. Does it go? Have people skied it? Imagining the possibility of skiing such a stellar line makes me happy in the pants - or in other words, I'm feeling like this :eek: just looking at it and would feel like this :yourock: if anyone has skied it.

That is what I am talking about.

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Originally Posted by powstash

That peak to the right of center - the big massive ROCK monolith. There's an obvious cleft/cooler running down the entire face just right of the peak. Does it go? Have people skied it? Imagining the possibility of skiing such a stellar line makes me happy in the pants - or in other words, I'm feeling like this :eek: just looking at it and would feel like this :yourock: if anyone has skied it.

That is what I am talking about.

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Maybe you should name it.

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Originally Posted by powstash

That peak to the right of center - the big massive ROCK monolith. There's an obvious cleft/cooler running down the entire face just right of the peak. Does it go? Have people skied it? Imagining the possibility of skiing such a stellar line makes me happy in the pants - or in other words, I'm feeling like this :eek: just looking at it and would feel like this :yourock: if anyone has skied it.

That is what I am talking about.

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2nd from right is Ice Mountain, central line is the Refrigerator. another line might go as well lookers right. (this the line?)

http://www.summitpost.org/images/original/110894.jpg
from summit post

3rd from right is North Apostle. I dont know if the line goes, but if it does, its probably been skied:

http://www.summitpost.org/images/original/110895.jpg
from summit post

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Originally Posted by SUPERSQUID69

Maybe you should name it.

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Maybe you should shut the fuck up and quit your whining T.:the_finge

A few more pics

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...s/IMG_3450.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...s/IMG_3479.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...s/IMG_3542.jpg

first set of pics no workie...anyone else?

doesnt work for me either??? :(

doesn't work on my comp either. Regrigerator couloir has always looked rad to me. When I climbed Huron, I was drooling the whole time looking at Ice/the apostles. I think iskibc may have a TR of the fridge. I hear it can have some nasty rockfall btw.

awesome second set of pics! thought sayers looked sweet when I was up on plata.

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Originally Posted by HikeforTurns

2nd from right is Ice Mountain, central line is the Refrigerator. another line might go as well lookers right. (this the line?)

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The fridge be the one I was looking at. That looks like fun (and the one to the right looks spicy as well.

Thanks HFT.

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Originally Posted by Son1cdeth

first set of pics no workie...anyone else?

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4th-ed

Please fix the rex syndrome.

"A few more pics" - NICE!

Would love to be able to see the other pics.

Please fix! The last couple look $$$$$$$$$$$

Might have hit the photobucket.com bandwidth limit, if it's a free account.

fixed the pics

Noice!!! I've wanted to get back up in there.

Thanks for fixin the pics. Any beta on time frame & dist, aproach, lower level snow conditions, etc.?

The approach is pretty straightforward: Just follow the La Plata trail until you're staring at the peak. We left the car at 5am, got to the summit at 10:40, and returned to the car at 1pm. The snow was bulletproof from the car to the bottom of the couloir, which made the skinning and skiing out really easy.

Really fun tour. Has the feel of a 14er.

Bump for radness. One of you Coloradans should go ski Ice mountain and do a TR. That would be sick and I would enjoy the pics thank you very much.

^^^ Ice is high on my list. Not sure if I'll get around to it this season though. But, it's high on my list for next season :) Sayers is up there too :)

Thanks for the reminder. Ice has been on my list of places to visit since I read about it in the Ormes guide the first year I came to Colorado, before it even occured to me that you could ski it. The Fridge looks like a lot of fun without too much work.

Also: http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=32372

July 15!!! Maybe we'll be that lucky again this year!

Muy Bueno!