"Lots of snow on the initial red pine lake trail has been melted off! I used crampons and ice axe once I got to the steep and snowy sections past red pine lake. You can probably get away with not doing this by staying on the rock scramble ridge, but I wanted to do more of a snowy ascent and descent! The snow is still fairly deep and very very soft so I was very glad to have the gear that I did. Lots of wildlife out now that it’s warmed up!" — easton • Jun 12, 2024

"Wanted to do a summit run today... Considered Timpanogos but will save that for later. I used to hike to Red Pine Lake every summer as a kid, but I've never been up to Pfiefferhorn until today. Kind of dragging up to Red Pine, legs a little heavy. Was hoping to reach the summit in 1:30 but struggled a bit with route-finding and wow, that ridge was sloooooow going. Finally made it in 1:50, much faster coming down :) Been reading up on and thinking about doing the WURL. Definitely a bit intimidated after today... Can't wait." — rsnipes • Sep 20, 2020

"Third time's the charm! Backpacked up to Red Pine Lake the evening before and hit the summit the next morning. The night was cold, only 25 degrees! Summit day was beautiful, glad I finally bagged this one!" — hanyo66 • Sep 1, 2020

"Tried to summit Pfeifferhorn but a huge snowstorm came in a day before. Ankle to knee deep snow most of the way up to Red Pine, and then thigh high snow at the lake. A couple of backcountry skiers passed us and warned us there was a small avalanche. Decided to call it quits there and come back down." — hanyo66 • May 18, 2019

"Hiked Red Pine Trail trying to get to the summit of Pfeifferhorn. made it up the talus rock slope to the ridge but the trail became a scamble up some class 3 boulders. Since we are more hikers than climbers we called it good. hiked with my wife and daughter. We are a little disappointed in not making the actual summit but felt good making the uphill hike and approximate 10 mile hike out and back. Views of Red Pine Lake and surrounding area are beautiful and worth the hike alone." — RAW • Jul 6, 2018

"Ran up from the White Pine trailhead, made it running about to the Red Pine turnoff and then started power hiking and running intermittently up the trail. Unfortunately we lost the trail that goes up to the ridge from the Upper Red Pine basin, and ended up just boulder hopping all the way up to the ridge and then cut over from there to the top of the Pfeifferhorn." — tomsenreed • Aug 6, 2016

"Beatout Hike with my friend Connor. Started at 10PM from white pine TH the night before. Slept at Red Pine Lake. Woke up, chilled out, went to Upper Red Pine Lake, too much snow and couldn't really find a trail so hoofed it through a lot of snow. I slipped through the snow and hit a rock underneath on my leg, and now I have a gnarly scar to remember it by. Luckily I had some butterfly bandages and we continued. Made our own path up to the ridge right next to little pfeiffer, summited that. On our way along the ridge to pfeifferhorn we saw the only person of the day. A nice older lady on her way down that seemed bad ass. Summited Pfeiffer. Went along ridge and then up to summit UPWOP (aka Shy Boy Peak is the name we gave it.) Went along a very sketchy route over to Chipman Peak. Did a decent amount of free climbing with the route we chose and it was awesome. Summited Chipman. Went along Lightning Ridge. This took us a while just because of pictures and how much fun we were having. Lightning Ridge was the coolest part of the trip. Went over to summit So. Thunder Mtn. Instead of going down to the south to the saddle we went a little north and then west down a super steep chute that wa..." — RamboDaWulf420 • Jun 22, 2015

"clear skies, climbed the snowfield for fun, training up on proper ice axe techniques. Blowy as hell on top - lost my favorite hat :( (I count this as a sacrifice to the mountain gods - guaranteeing good climbing season). /\/\/\/\/\" — DianaC • Jun 21, 2015

"Trail run. Better route finding (than previous climbs) put me on top of Pfeifferhorn from the White Pine parking lot in less than two hours. The rain must have discouraged the usual crowd of people I meet on top of the summit and along the ridgeline. " — Hardman • Jul 12, 2013

"via North Ridge with Joseph Bullough and Michael Kligman. From car to car was right at 8 hours. We hiked from White Pine TH through Maybird gulch. We climbed a steep couloir that consisted of one roped pitch to reach the ridge. From there we followed the ridge upward. It seems we lost the ridge as we were ascending and had to ascend a pretty tricky line back to the ridge. I think there was maybe two moves that were more difficult that the normal crux of the ridge. The loose rock was what made this climb difficult and fairly dangerous. Michael and I both took a few small rocks to the helmet. It was nearly impossible to prevent. Tricky climbing when you can't be sure if your hand-holds are true or not. We climbed past several large rocks that were ready to fall. The weather held out for us. We had cloud cover during the entire route. At one point we started to get a little worried about the weather as the wind picked up and had rain falling to the East and West of us. But like I said, we lucked out and stayed dry. It was rather cool during the climb while belaying in the shade. This was an absolutely stunning climb. It exceeded my expectations and I feel fortunate to have climbed it...." — darinwilson • Sep 23, 2012