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[TR] Colchuck - Broken Thumb Direct 06/25/2022


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Trip: Colchuck - Broken Thumb Direct

Trip Date: 06/25/2022

Trip Report:

I'm not getting any younger, but luckily neither is @Juan or @Bronco.  They would point out that even though my thumb is broken, at least it has 3 pins in it.  And so it goes....

In my efforts to not let my infirmities get the best of me this summer, both of these kind gents were game for a slog up Colchuck a couple weeks ago.  It had been a long time since I've been up there in the spring and how times have changed.  I seem to remember the peaks as pretty busy 20 years ago but the trail relatively quiet. No longer!  Several hundred people swarmed the trail to Colchuck Lake but somehow we had the peak to ourselves?!  I was a bit in disbelief, but certainly didn't complain....about that.  I was sure to complain about my stupid thumb and how I better not fall and bend the pins.  As the nurse admonished me a few days before, " bent pins don't really come out very well."  Thankfully, I didn't put that theory to the test....yet.  There is always next weekend!  I still have two weeks until the pins come out.

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Gear Notes:
One pole, crampons. An axe if you have two hands

Approach Notes:
Follow the hordes to the lake, then your nose
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