Robinson Mountain — Saturday, Jun. 5, 2021

Decided to snag this peak after hearing about some poor conditions in the enchantments. 

Stats: 6 hours up, 3.5 hours out, 30 minutes on summit, 10 hours total. Big climb and was wiped at end of day. No tracks.

Only saw one other party coming down after bailing around the tarn due to post holing concerns I believe. 

Trail pretty much in good enough condition. If you can do backcountry navigating, deal with snow fields/postholing, ascend and descend either a steep scree field or snow slope, and do a class 3 crux on a knife edge ridge then you should be able to do this summit. Beware though it will be a long strenuous day and most overnight camp at the tarn.

Beta: creek crossing right before the valley meadow is high. Can cross if okay with getting boots a little wet. Otherwise an alternate is heading down stream about 20 feet and crossing through some slide alder (I believe that's slide alder). 

At top of meadow and getting to the tarn, trail disperses, snow appears on ground, and its time to figure out your own way. Expect post holing and beware underground streams. Pretty straight forward to the tarn though. 

Now, I took the standard route up the scree field to the north, but there are some boot paths that gain the ridge to the south via a steep snow field. Pick your preference. Note the scree field is getting tracked out a bit and was sketchy on the way down. Some areas getting down to the bare hardpack dirt below. Ridge scramble is pretty straight forward. Easy to stay on route most the time. When getting to the final false summit, stay climbers right, even a little right of the ridge itself when you can. I went straight up the ridge and felt sketched so backed out and went climbers left where a climbers trail went. That move sketched me out. Spicy class 3/4 thats super exposed. Came down the other way (skiers left) and it was easy as pie. There's a register in a green Nalgene bottle at the summit. Recently added too!. I also missed my northern ridge spur on the way back to the tarn and almost started climbing the southern spur, which woulda been fine but I wanted to keep the same route out. I noticed a couple glissage paths from the top of the valley at the intersection of the spurs. Badasses whoever did that. Hike out was uneventful.