We really wanted to place Sheep Series: Sheep Nose here but on 2 different trips we tried to find a way up that wasn't 4.5 stars and couldn't. The Lady Gypsy got to the top with several hands from me in the summer but I hoped to find an easier way up so I came back with muggleisaiah. There was about 2 inches of snow and it was what I called 'pretty sketchy' and The Lady would probably have called 'patently suicidal'. Beautiful views with all that snow though.
We parked at the provided coordinate and skirted the rocks to the west until just below the saddle. There's not much of a trail in the valley and it's scampering around boulders the rest of the way up the fairly steep hill to the 'start climbing' coordinate and the only way up we found that didn't require ropes and tri-cams.
If you're not completely comfortable please turn around and find our Sheep Series cache.
The route we took in the picture above was more scrambling than climbing. If you can make it up the first 30 ft. you'll do fine on the rest. Total hike from the parking spot is less than a mile each way.
The container is a large micro with some room for small trackables.
Also thanks to mugglepaul for coming on the placement trip.
Congrats to hartsdale for being FTF.