4,610 ft | Carter | 0 routes
Feels like -22°F
Below freezing at all elevations
~2.2°F drop per 1,000ft
Best Hiking Window
Conditions are currently dangerous and are not recommended for Sunday. Monday offers a marginally better window as winds ease and skies clear under the arctic high — an early morning start on Monday would be the safest opportunity, but only for highly experienced winter mountaineers prepared for sustained sub-zero temperatures and remaining elevated wind chills. Conditions deteriorate again Monday night and into Tuesday with increasing winds and snow expected. The safest approach is to wait until the wind chill warning has expired and temperatures moderate.
Trail: Imp South, North Carter, Carter-Moriah
Conditions: Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular, Snow - Wet/Sticky, Snow - Spring Snow
“Warm day. Sticky until half way up Carter-Moriah trail after Imp junction - happily bare booted until this point then switched to televator snowshoes for remainder (made the switch to boots same spot on the descent). Could’ve bare booted the entire thing without too much fuss, but snowshoes were nice up higher within the well formed snowshoe trench. Lightning Bug (3-legged woof) had a reasonably easy day without soft stuff to post hole, neither powder nor softened spring snow. Cheers!”
Trail: 19 mile, Carter Dome, Carter-Moriah, N. Carter, Imp trail, Camp Dodge
Conditions: Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular, Snow - Unpacked Powder
“Great Day, started in spikes, snowshoes would be good on carter dome or after bridged water crossing part way up carter dome trail. Snowshoes needed on ridge, especially after middle. Trail blown in some but easy to follow. Only person we saw was at intersection with North Carter trail - he snowshoed up. So trail is in good shape and may be even better depending on how many went to South & Middle after us. We were 1st ones up today.”
Trail: Nineteen Mile Brook Trail, Carter Dome Trail, Carter-Moriah Trail, North Carter Trail, Imp Trail
Conditions: Snow - Unpacked Powder, Snow - Drifts
“Great day with plenty of blue skys and some wind. Started out with maybe an inch of new snow at the trailhead that became maybe five inches of new snow up higher. Wind blown snow including some knee high drifts sometimes made it hard to follow the trail and that slowed us down. Did not see another person until we got back to the trailhead. He had gone up behind us and done it as an out and back.”
No routes available for this peak.
Middle peak of the Carter Range. Usually done as part of a Carter Range traverse.
Elevation
4,610 ft
Range
Carter
Rank
#15 of 48
Difficulty
Difficult
Coordinates
44.3031, -71.1676
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