"Parking about 2 miles from the Fourmile Creek TH due to snow on the road, hit the trail around 7:30am and made the summit around 10:40am. Proceeded to head back down the mountain around 11am after resting and snacking, arriving back to the TH / car around 1:20pm. Sub 6 hour hike, which was well within goal time. Very snow-packed, very windy. Great day. " — Katamount • Dec 19, 2025

"Route finding wasn’t much of an issue although we did see some people going a more difficult way on the scramble (not on purpose). The last part was a scramble and some exposure, but not difficult. " — AmyScrambles • Sep 1, 2025

"Once out of the treeline it is very very steep although fully walk up and easy to find the trail. Any steeper and you’d be scrambling. More false summits than we were expecting." — AmyScrambles • Aug 31, 2025

"Went down half moon road all the way to the Southwest Slopes trail white knuckling the whole drive past the main trailhead. Uphill the whole time, barely any sections that mellowed out on elevation gain. Mtn Goats at top! Great views, and accomplishment! " — lizzieamancio • Jul 14, 2025

"7/13/2025 *I'm pretty sure this ended up being 13.8 miles, but a mile was stolen from me. We all know not to use AllTrails for routes, I guess it's not the way to go if you care about tracking your stats either. Had a great day on Elbert today with my good friend, saw some amazing wildlife and made a few new friends on the way down. We rolled into the North Elbert Trail trailhead around 04:30 after jumping someone's car on Halfmoon rd, which would give us some good karma through the day. The parking lot started to fill up after we got there but it seemed like there was a decent amount of room to park at the trailhead. After cooking up some breakfast tacos on my griddle and almost booting it back up after passing the outhouse at the trailhead (I cant say I've smelled much worse and I didn't even go in) we started the climb with first light at 05:30 since we had forgotten our headlamps. Oops. We watched the sun rise through the trees and burn off the clouds for the first 2.5 miles or so, giving us an absolutely beautiful bluebird sky. The trail to treeline was pretty relaxed besides a couple of staircase sections, but staircases wear me out so maybe I'm a little biased. We mad..." — Trusey • Jul 13, 2025