Tram to Peak.... well 300ft below the peak

[greatshaitan]

This Saturday I took the tram up and did some Snow shoeing up to the peak. We hit the 10,550 marker and hit our hard turn around time at 1:30. Didn't need the crampons but snow shoes were a must. Had a few post holes even with my 36" shoes. See pictures at the link below.

http://www.drunkreddragon.com/images/adventures/SanJacintoSnowshoe/mywebalbum/index.html

[fitness_57]

that is a pretty ambitious trek going to the peak and back in one shot ! don't think I could do it... thanks for posting the photos !

[Hikin_Jim]

This Saturday I took the tram up and did some Snow shoeing up to the peak. We hit the 10,550 marker and hit our hard turn around time...

Wow. That's discipline. For 300 more vertical feet, I'd have been very tempted to go for it.

Looks like a fabulous day.


HJ

[greatshaitan]

This Saturday I took the tram up and did some Snow shoeing up to the peak. We hit the 10,550 marker and hit our hard turn around time...

Wow. That's discipline. For 300 more vertical feet, I'd have been very tempted to go for it.

We almost did, but my partner forgot his headlamp at home and didn't want to be descending in a moonless night.

[Lermo]

Beautiful Day!

[fitness_57]

Good judgement in turning around and not trying to go to the very top--- there will always be another day !

[arocknoid]

Fine day and splendid pics. Looks like you turned around past the Miller switchback, on the traverse. Good times don't need no summit , especially when you have the wide open mountain almost completely to yourself.

If you were post-holing with your thirtysixes, I feel sorry for your partner-- 21s?:



keep movin',
arocknoid

[greatshaitan]

Fine day and splendid pics. Looks like you turned around past the Miller switchback, on the traverse. Good times don't need no summit , especially when you have the wide open mountain almost completely to yourself.

If you were post-holing with your thirtysixes, I feel sorry for your partner-- 21s?:


keep movin',
arocknoid

Yup turned around a little after Miller. GPS had us at 10,515. My partner had his girlfriends snowshoes as he could not find his. He fared a little worse than me but I cleared the path through the deep stuff. Mostly it was in locations that had a lot of bushes/rocks were the snow couldn't compact.

[bluerail]

with that cold weather the sidewalk to the peak was fine with micros.

..for the most part