Colorado Backcountry: Radiobeacon Mountain - Rollins Pass

Submitted by jp on Sat, 10/15/2005 - 10:53

Radiobeacon Mountain

Location: Radiobeacon Mtn, Rollins Pass, Forest Lakes Cirque
Riders: JP, Alex
Start: 10am - 4pm (at car)

The day trip started kinda late compared to normal adventures, but I met Alex up at his house in Coal Creek Hieghts around 8am. He cooked up a quick breakfast and we decided on checking out Rollins Pass. Much less snow then Jones Pass we were happy to four wheel the cruiser all the way back to Forest Lake trailhead and lakes. Searching out the window for some good snow we almost settled on a small patch above Yankee Doodle lake, but ventured on and found a nice stash off the north pitch of Radiobeacon.

berthoud booter lines

We set off downhill, bushwhacking our way toward the snow. The hike was pretty nice and we made it to the north base/forest lakes area of Radiobeacon in an hour and a half. From there we decided to boot pack up to a small snow filled couloir that was hidden from the road. We took a few laps in spring like conditions under beautiful bluebird skies. On the decesent, we headed a bit further south and ended up below the southern ridge of Radiobeacon. This snow field was the destination and after 1 lap we were done. Got in maybe 20 or so good turns and it started to get way patchy.

Colorado Backcountry: Jones Pass / Butler Gulch

Submitted by jp on Thu, 10/13/2005 - 08:30

Jones Pass - Butler Gulch

Location: Jones Pass Cirque
Riders: JP, iskibc, Kya, RJ
Start: 6am - 4pm (at car)

The anticipation started early monday as I was sitting in my office watching the storm dump over most of colorado. Loveland Pass reported almost a foot and a half and some spots in the northern central rockies got more then two and half feet. I knew the following day tour would be epic, if not brutal.

Jones Pass - Oct. Storm [Video Clip/Sound.wmv]

I met up with some backcountry skier friends from TGR in empire at 6am. The previous day we decided on doing a Jones Pass - Butler Gulch super tour. We rolled out of empire on the way to henderson mine, we decide to push it and see how far we could four wheel the trucks up the Jones Pass road in 20" deep snow. We made it almost to tree line before getting RJ's 4runner stuck in a ditch off the side of the pass road.


GPS Route & Waypoints

Colorado Still Going Off!

Submitted by jp on Fri, 08/26/2005 - 14:18

Most of these trips I was solo or with the dog, so no fun shred pics. You get the idea though. Plenty left if you work for it. This is what i did all summer, same as last summer. same as next summer. Summer aint all bad

Enjoy the pics from some of the adventures and even a little fly fishing WY
style.

Loveland Pass - Late June
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Loveland Resort Terrain Park - Late June
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Rocky Mountain National Park
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Colorado Backcountry: La Plata - North Face Unnamed Couloir

Submitted by jp on Thu, 08/25/2005 - 14:33

La Plata Peak, UnNamed Couloir
Distance: 10 miles round trip (2 mile bushwhack)
Vert Gain: 4400'
Vert Ski'd: 1600'
Duration: 9 hr to car, 5:00am start
Date: 07/16/2005
Elevation: 14,450
Starting Location: Lake Creek Trailhead

La Plata Route
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Shreddin
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Yup thats my Forum park board
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Mini-Couloir
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Colorado Backcountry: Apache Mountain - Apache Couloir

Submitted by jp on Thu, 08/25/2005 - 14:32

Apache Mountain, Apache Couloir
Distance: 13 miles round trip
Vert Gain: 3500'
Vert Ski'd: 2000'
Duration: 10 hr to car, 4:00am start
Date: 07/09/2005
Elevation: 13,500
Starting Location: Brainard Lake

Colorado Backcounty: Update

Submitted by jp on Tue, 04/12/2005 - 15:30

ridge line

It's been deep lately. Winter hasn't given up on Colorado, with over 2 feet of fluffy powder just this week, shit is going off. We've done a lot of riding since the last update so I don't even know where to start. Berthoud and Loveland Pass are sick right now with tons of fresh over the weekend. We rode up at Loveland again on Sunday and it was epic, tons of fresh powder and lots of fun wind blown features of slash. The trees are holding a lot of snow, and you don't have to search very hard for fresh lines. Loveland resort is report over 70" base so you know the snow is good. The Berthoud backcountry is insane right now too, they have been getting a lot of snow these last few months and things are setting up nicely. If your willing to hike and take a long day trip you can access some really fresh steep terrain up near the divide around Berthoud. Don't forget to check avalanche conditions and make safe decisions, steeps just aren't worth your life. AKD and I also hit up Mary Jane last week and the snow was great, after MJ we went up to the Berthoud summit to build a kicker. The powder up on the summit was completely untracked and it was a great landing for our mini huckfest. Even Eldora is getting the stoke, I was up there yesterday and it was perfect. They reported 22" over the last 2 days, the back side Corona was untracked all day long. I rode the steeps on the backside and trees most of the day. Tons of light snow in the morning, around 1pm the sun broke through and things started getting mashed and heavy.

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