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Mt. Sneffels via the South Slopes and Lavender Couloir (Class 3)
Date: 06/14/2020
Starting time: 05:30 am
Trailhead: Yankee Boy Basin (10,650 ft.)
Distance: 9 miles (round trip)
Elevation gain: 3,500 ft.
Duration: 7 hours (round trip)

Mt. Sneffels is located in the San Juan Mountains and ranks no. 30 among the Colorado 14ers (based on NAVD88). It was officially first summited by Allen David Wilson, Franklin Rhoda, and Dr. Frederick Endlich of the Hayden Survey on September 10, 1874. Mt. Sneffels was named by geologist Dr. Frederick Endlich during the first ascent via the Blue Lakes Pass for Snæfellsjökull, an extinct volcano in Iceland, which marks the entrance to the center of the Earth in Jules Verne’s novel “Journey to the Center of the Earth”. Mt. Sneffels was originally named Mt. Blaine by Lt. William Marshall for James G. Blaine, representative from Maine in the U.S. Congress and Senate who served as Speaker of the House from 1869 to 1875.

The couloir on the South Face of Mt. Sneffels is named for Dwight Garrigues Lavender, a mountaineer of the 1920s and 1930s, who made the first official ascent on the North Face on July 6, 1933, together with Gordon Williams and T. Melvin Griffiths. Martha Middlebrook Bloom Lavender, Dwight Lavender’s sister-in-law, became the first woman to officially summit Mt. Sneffels on July 27, 1932, together with her brother-in-law Dwight G. Lavender and her husband David S. Lavender.