I climbed the east ridge of Peak 2 in late November 2023, in what I was pretty sure was going to be unsupportive, hollow snow conditions (this was correct) but on a beautiful day where I had nothing better to do, and perhaps I needed to feed the masochistic instinct a bit.
I approached from Frisco, hiking southwards on Miner’s Creek Road towards its intersection with the Colorado Trail below peaks 2 and 3. I had no flotation nor did I need it, though the last bit along the CT on low angle terrain near treeline was pretty deep. I bee-lined it straight northwards up steep slopes to gain Peak 2’s east ridge. The climbing was, as expected, pretty terrible: very punchy, unsupportive, terrain-covering-but-not-stabilizing type of snow. The last bit of ridge flattens out and sharpens to a pretty fantastic ~5m section of tenuous and exposed movement, before pitching up on talus to the summit. Good times. Would recommend this route for cold spring conditions, after the snow has had time to consolidate.
