Eldorado Peak — Saturday, Jun. 17, 2017

Road conditions are great. A few bugs on the lower trail head. The log crossings are straight forward. The first 1800' feet through the woods is very muddy and slippery. The trail is straight up. Then the boulder field which is snow free until around 5500. At the end is a water source that we drank untreated. After the boulder field the basin is full of snow, which makes the crossing onto the Eldorado Glacier a little tricky. Once on the glacier we only saw two crevasses on the climb to base camp at 7400'. We had a very slow group, it took 9 hours to get to base camp. We spent the night, woke up at 3:45 am. Left camp at 5:10 am, and made it to the summit and back to camp in 2.5 hours. Once on the knife edge, the boot path walked along the left hand side, there was a 3 foot tall ledge to climb onto. Once on top the summit was about 3 feet wide by 15 feet long with sheer drops on each side.