Mt. Blaurock
Mt. Blaurock and Ervin Peak
Date: 7/7/2019
Distance: 6.3 miles 3700ft from CR390A west of Winfield
Start: 5:25am
End: 12:40pm
Partner: Kristi Henes
Here is a link for the GPX file from our trip.
GPX
(I started my GPS late... start/end points were the same)
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Distance: 6.3 miles 3700ft from CR390A west of Winfield - roughly 7 hours with plenty of summit time.
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Kristi on Ervin's south slopes
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Looking up to the west side of Ervin's summit ridge
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There was some fun scrambling even before reaching the ridge.
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Ervin's west ridge was chock full of class 3 scrambling and was definitely the highlight of the day
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Kristi in Ervin's west ridge. Summit not too far off
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There were a couple of easy snow crossings on the ridge. However we were thankful we brought our axes as a ride would have been scary
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After tagging Ervin's summit we headed back across the ridge towards Blaurock.
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Kristi on a spicey down climb with some loose rock
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Alex heading to Blaurock
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Alex on the summit with La Plata in the distance. It was cool to see the Ellingwood Ridge from this perspective.
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Blaurock summit shot with Rinker, Hope and Twin Lakes
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Rinker, Hope and Twin Lakes all jacked up on Android photo enhancements
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Huron, Ice and the Apostles
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Did I mention it was nice to have our axes?
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Kristi descending Blaurock's sourth ridge.
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The gully between Blaurock and Ervin had been decimated by an avalanche earlier in the year.
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We were stoked to glissade the avy path
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Kristi on the last of the glissade before we bushwhacked back to the truck
