Well, close is a relative term, but when you drive 6 hours, hike in and bushwhack through tough terrain and camp within a mile of your line, I’d say that is pretty close. Unfortunately, the wind, sun, rain, and graupel made this mission unsuccessful.
Camp and the line in the upper left corner.
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The hike in to camp went relatively smooth, but once the megamid was set up, it started to rain all afternoon and night. The following day was a wash, with rain and graupel showers, and a very unfrozen and mushy snowpack, but we at least got out for a little tour to scope things out. Things cleared up late in the afternoon, but the wind came in like a freight train and I don’t think my partner and I got a wink of sleep that night. Tough times, but I will be back again some day to get this one done. I promise!
Sorry you didn’t nail your objective. Looks beautiful. Where is it?
Nothing comes easy in that range. If I only had two failed attempts there I would be happy. I personally have many more…
Loaf Mtn can be a consolation prize when all else fails.
Looks like either Beartooths or Bighorns…?
“failure” makes “success” that much sweeter when you do get a bite.
bighorns is correct 528 the infamous bighorn couloir just off the infamous bighorn peak ski it to believe it or at least part of it
I was up in the JHMG camp when that wind came through on Wed night – brutal. We were in a GoLite tarp tent and the wind actually drove the pole through the peak, collapsing it. A coffee cup over the pole held it for the rest of the night, but the bullet-proof snow the next morning was unpleasant for skiing.
What place is this Alaska? I never thought that it still had to rain in that kind of place. I think you trip have been spoiled by the rain.
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