Rollins Pass Access

[HouseCO]

I was wondering if you can access Rollins pass via sled in the winter? I.E. can you start out on the Rollins Pass side (East side near Rollinsville) and ride over the pass to the Corona Pass side (West Side near Winter Park)? Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[SledsWest]

I can't find the thread, I know its around here somewhere. I asked that same question a few years back and basically its a resounding NO. The wind blows all the snow off the top of the mtn and exposes the endless fields of giant rocks. You'd kill yourself and your sled trying to get up and over the top, not to mention the brutal cornices on the east side (Rollins Pass).

 

[Kid Rock]

it can be done but its a high pucker factor. i have only made it over once in the 10 years i have lived in gilpin county. conditions have to be just right, slide city and alot of the good snow blows away.

i did it with a 900 151 and had to work my *** off to make it over but made it.

i have also been up there when the ice has heaved off of YDL because of the huge slides that happen up there.

rider beware.

 

[Snowmark]

Rollins

after making the treacherous climb, on several occasions, up yankee doodle, at the top i came upon barren, windblown fields of boulders...impassable.....actually most of the time there is barely enough snow just to get to YDL

 

[Kid Rock]

yep, the RP road usually has stretches of bare rock followed by drifts the size of school buses. sometimes the drifts are soft, sometimes hard, fall right and get her out in the spring, fall left and its a 10 foot or more drop to the high side of the shelf road.....literally on the edge most of the time.
very technical riding, beginners need not apply.

once up top, you really have to stay on the wagon road because the boulders are so nasty and it gets blown off. we were up there when some weather moved in and you might as well have been on the moon.

pretty funny, go look at it now and you would say there is no way you can make it over but it fills in quickly.

the lakes can be very fun if you hit them on the right day and you usually have the place to yourself.