kurthicks Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 With everyone I know being occupied this morning, i decided to head up to Bachelor for a nice little hike. The alarm sounded mighty early at 2:30, so I hit the snooze...more about that later. I headed out and got to the ski area at 4am. Under beautiful clear skies and stars, I hit the trail at 4:15--up the true wilderness that the mountain is. The snow was pretty icy though, I'm guessing from yesterday's rain, so the crampons went on. I passed the Pine Martin lodge at 4:55am. making pretty good time, but the sun was creeping up on me. I hit a little of rock above the lodge and debated about taking off the crampons, but sunrise was close and I wanted to be on the summit for it. The sun finally came up and I was less than 10 minutes from the summit...damn that snooze bar! I hit the summit at 5:45am. Plenty of photos were taken as the clouds were somewhat parted. I could only see north to Jeff and to the south I could kind of make out Thielson for a few minutes. Hung out for 45 minutes and had a breakfast consisting of trailmix, bananas, and snickers on top all by myself, there wasn't even another car in any of the parking lots--no surprise really. Headed down and was back at the car by 7:15am, a three hour trip. if only my snowboard wasn't in storage up north...oh what it could have been. it still though. a view of sunrise: http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/plab/showphoto.php?photo=888 and South Sister: http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/plab/showphoto.php?photo=889 Time to head off to Smiff... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fejas Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 from your pic of the SS it looks like the sno is really startin to melt up there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurthicks Posted June 1, 2003 Author Share Posted June 1, 2003 yea, it sure looks like it. when gapertimmy gets back from Green Lakes tomorrow I'm sure he'll tell us all about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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