Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 3:47 pm
So did anyone make the meetup location?
Rogue and I had planned on it until the last minute when various things pushed our schedule back a couple days. So... we actually stared up the route from Deadman Canyon and weren't feeling it! Hence we walked right by it and could have made it up there but it was like 3 days before the meetup date itself. We ended up doing a pretty interesting snow traverse up to Coppermine Pass and down into Cloud Canyon facing insufferable mosquitoes in deadman along the way. I started calling them apocalyptic... they were something else. We had massive downpours in Cloud Canyon to the point where I literally had to dig trenches around my tent to prevent more substantial flooding.. because I was already flooding. It was a comical sight to see me digging trenches with an ice ax in the pouring rain.. something out of a horror movie comes to my mind.
I climbed Glacier Ridge and we tried to get Whaleback but alas the weather was not cooperative. So I'll have to be back but getting up to those lakes on Glacier Ridge certainly won't be a priority at this point. We ended up leaving several days early because of the seriously challenging conditions. I bagged some peaks before and after the trip and will continue to do some more this weekend around the Rock Creek area.
Rogue and I had planned on it until the last minute when various things pushed our schedule back a couple days. So... we actually stared up the route from Deadman Canyon and weren't feeling it! Hence we walked right by it and could have made it up there but it was like 3 days before the meetup date itself. We ended up doing a pretty interesting snow traverse up to Coppermine Pass and down into Cloud Canyon facing insufferable mosquitoes in deadman along the way. I started calling them apocalyptic... they were something else. We had massive downpours in Cloud Canyon to the point where I literally had to dig trenches around my tent to prevent more substantial flooding.. because I was already flooding. It was a comical sight to see me digging trenches with an ice ax in the pouring rain.. something out of a horror movie comes to my mind.
I climbed Glacier Ridge and we tried to get Whaleback but alas the weather was not cooperative. So I'll have to be back but getting up to those lakes on Glacier Ridge certainly won't be a priority at this point. We ended up leaving several days early because of the seriously challenging conditions. I bagged some peaks before and after the trip and will continue to do some more this weekend around the Rock Creek area.