Eldorado Peak — Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018

Currently there are a lot of mosquitos down low.  When you come to the boulder field if you cross the field completely and go up the side you are able to stay on more dirt with less boulder hopping.  This made it easier on the way down.   Waterfall currently available at the top of the boulder field.  Beyond this, route finding becomes slightly difficult and you need to stay left along the ridge, and eventually go up the ridge to cross the at the gulley.  Then stay right.  and go up the snowfield a short distance then onto rock until you are in the upper snow field.  once up the snow field cross the glacier to the high camp.  Looks like an island in the snow and there is a very direct walk with minimal to no crevasse danger at this time.  For the summit continue up around the rocks to the left.  Due to the Bergschrund and crevasses, we opted to go up the ridge until we were around all this, then cross the snow to the knife edge and onto the summit.  Unfortunately, it was quite overcast with limited visibility so we did not get to enjoy the wonderful views.  On the upside, we were the only climbers that day so we had the high camp and summit to ourselves.