December 2008
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Baldy Bowl
Yesterday we climbed the bowl at Mt. Baldy. 5 feet of hard packed snow made for a quick ascent (5 hours base to summit).
The summit was very windy, so we dug a small hole in the snow to sit inside so we could eat our lunch with some protection. We glissaded (slid down on our butts), almost the entire way from the summit back to the Sierra Hut. At 8 miles roundtrip with nearly 4,000 feet...
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Shasta Casaval ridge
Hemingway (or perhaps Barnaby Conrad) once said “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.”
Pictures from our trip here Two weeks ago, while planning a trip to Mt. Shasta, I read a news report about a woman who had just that same day fallen to her death on the icy slopes Avalanche gulch. She wasn’t wearing a helmet. And so it...