Name: Red Top Mountain
Start: 2025-02-09T07:30:00-08:00
End: 2025-02-09T07:30:00-08:00

Past Activity

Red Top Mountain

Start date: 02/09/2025
Start time: 7:30 AM

Description:

The Obsidians have been leading ski trips up Red Top Mountain since 1940, the era of the Snow Trains which sometimes unloaded at Crescent Lake. Nowadays, with splitboards and AT bindings, it has become quite a popular destination. Please bring climbing skins that fit your boards, although in good snow conditions it is possible to climb up using fish scales or pattern bases. If the snow is deep our group may ski down the steep shots to the north side of the mountain and pass Pretty Lake on the way out. We usually ski up for about 3 hours and down for at least 90 minutes.

Event Leader: Gordon Sayre
Event Leader Phone: 541-515-9450
Event Leader Email: gsayre@uoregon.edu
Assistant Leader: Harold Thompson
Event category: Trips
Area Type: Mountain
Departure Location:
Rating: Difficult
Roundtrip total drive miles: 160
Season: 2025
Permits Required:
- Wilderness Area
- Snow Park
Event Status: Passed
Supplies and Equipment Required: backountry boots, skis and climbing skins, warm clothing, lunch, ten essentials.
participant prerequisites:
Conditions:
Total Distance: 8
Member Fees: —
Elevation Gain: 2100
Non-Member Fees: 5
Committee: Trips
Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

Eighteen inches of fresh fluff, partially blue sky's and temperatures in the twenties were the conditions for our trip to Redtop Mountain. We left the cars at 9:50 AM and summited at 1:50 PM. A quick chilly lunch and then a wonderful ski run down the mountain and back to the cars before 4:30 PM. It was a perfect day on Redtop.