| Scramble:
RT 9.0; 5.0 up. Man, that was a difficult
moderate
scramble! The last 400 m. required route finding skills, we were faced
with some low 5th class sections. In Alan Kane's new edition, the
ascent time is upped to 5-7 hours compared to 2.5 to 4 in the first
edition. The summit registry demonstrated the not-so-positive comments
of other parties. If only we had good snow conditions and visibility
the first time we set out to do this summit (may 27th this season), it
would have been probably more enjoyable to stick to the gully the whole
way up on firm snow! Anyway, the start from the road is not
obvious. There are several game trails, we stoped to take GPS
readings along the way. We came across a good trail leading to
the
lower gully. That was probably the most enjoyable part of the trip but
not for long; at treeline we started up rubble that increasingly
steepens, interrupted by numerous small rockbands before reaching the
summit ridge. We enjoyed the summit but dreaded the
thought of having to come back down. We made the poor decision of
bringing Winston on this outing. We had to help him along a couple of
sections, that obviously made the
situation more serious and it was certainly not enjoyable for
Winston....(he was slightly intimidated and could sense our stress
level). After coming down the top part, his tail wag resumed and he
started
leading the way again. We
reconsidered where we have been taking our Pooch, some places are
simply not for doggies no matter how prepared. Sorry Winston,
next
ones won't be like that! |
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