The Base Of The Chute - 04.30.2024
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Things were going better than expected until I got a Humdinger of a Headache just below Trail Camp...Pushed up to The Chute to take a nap and get a good look at it and The Cables...
A tent at Trail Camp...1 climber heading up as I was heading down at Rockwell's Finest Spring (Bighorn Park)...another 3 hikers and a dog lower down on the trail.
(Somewhat controversial comment) If you're fit and acclimatized and know what you're doing on snow, a Day-Climb with the current conditions is possible...boot tracks galore all over the mountain...
I'll repeat what I've been saying in other posts...It is going to be an early Summer...
Headache ain't gone, so ask questions if you have any...
Here are some photos with a few comments:
John Muir Wilderness...
Typical conditions farther up the Main Trail...a mix of snow patches with lots of trail...and lots of running water on the trail...
That's the altitude I'd call the snow continuous...although there were still plenty of dry patches of trail a lot higher up...
The Log Crossing...mostly dry...
Entering the Whitney Zone...
For some reason that is beyond me, the majority of the tracks up to Bighorn Park were WAY LEFT...I just headed straight up, linking sections of dry trail...
Outpost Camp.
Above Outpost Camp.
Contouring off the "trail" to the snowfield up to Consultation Lake / Trail Camp.