CDT Section Attempt
As should be obvious, I didn't get very far with this one.
Winter conditions were prevailing, and that means that at 7500' or so, nighttime temperatures were dipping into the low 20s.
I became intimately aware of that about 3:30 am, when I awoke to the shivers. Since I loathe being cold at night, I decided to bail on this plan until I had better sleeping togs. Next day? Back to the trailhead.
 Looking to the west, more or less. Next photo the same |
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 Looking north |
 Looking northeast |
 The trail at its 'not-so-bad' |
 The trail at its 'much worse' |
 The previous night's bedroom |
 What doesn't show here, is that there was water just under the surface; tent bottom and ground cloth: muddy |
 Maxie insists on horning in on my pictures :-) |
 Well, if you don't like me in your bloody pictures I'll just leave! |
 The south sister of the Twin Sisters Mtns. This one was at 8616 |
 Apparently his 'leaving' didn't involve going too far.  |