"We were trying to do Longs, but we ended up following footsteps that lead up Mount Lady Washington. The snow was so deep we just went with it. We didn't end up doing Longs because it looked like there might be an avalanche. " — matthewanderson • May 27, 2022

"Great hike! We opted for the more difficult shortcut up, and headed up Lady W shortly after the Chasm Lake intersection. Was definitely worth it, but on the way down we decided to cut down just below the Boulderfield. Ended up being around 11 miles with 4000’ gain, for Jenn’s first 13er! " — LGH-Dan • Sep 1, 2019

"Finally got out for some winter alpine climbing. This was a really spontaneous trip. Friday afternoon I was driving home from work in Denver and thought of camping in RMNP and climbing a peak in the area since the weather was supposed to be really nice (lows in the 30s!). We bought some winter climbing gear and have been itching to get out and try it out, but the last several weekends we were either sick, had family trips planned or there was a big snow in the mountains. So we left lakewood at 4:30 to estes and grabbed a campsite at moraine park. Met a friend for dinner in estes park and got in contact with another friend who proposed we meet him to climb Mt. Lady Washington at 8am. We got back to the campground around 10pm. It was really windy and loud trying to sleep in the I didn't get much sleep, so I was nervous about being about to successfully summit, knowing it was an 11 mile roundtrip and that niether my wife nor I had been at elevation in several months. We got to the trailhead at 8 and met our friend and set off by about 8:30am. There were maybe 8 other cars at the trailhead. There was a lot of snow but it was packed down really good. Just used microspikes until we got ..." — tylerburg • Feb 13, 2016