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Looks like we're going to try and get in early Thursday and hike up the road that night, since they are going to bo locking the gate today far the season. I think we're going to bring the snowshoes, but i just hate bringing them and not using. Oh well, better safe then sorry. Thanks guys. --tim

quote: Originally posted by allison: So you, the taxpayers of Washington have consistently voted to lower your taxes, and now you bitch that the gov't is saving money by salting the roads! Perhaps you should have thought of that before you voted to lower your taxes. Washington isd now ranked 49th out of 50 states in per capita $ for roads. Another case for the privitazation of roads. Cheers.

I know it's not in the Cascades, but does anybody have any experience with the Mountaneer's route on Whitney during the winter? Keep going back and forth on whether to bring snowshoes or not and how many days it's going to take. I just heard through a local Lone Pine store that the last guy who tried to summit in 2 days failed misreably, but no more information and the Whitney Portal Store web site is dead (yay for technology). We've got 3 days prepared and we're all in pretty good shape, but just curious if there are any special tips out there. Thanks. --tim

Heading down to Whitney in a couple weeks and I want to get in some decent snowshoe hikes beforehand. What's the closest place to Seattle that's tough and interesting in this fall of no snow? Thanks.