Archive for February, 2009

Princeton – Failed

The Princeton trip started off very well but myself and another person decided to deviate from the rest of the group and take the “easier” summer route instead of going up and over Tigger peak. Problems arose when we had to cross a number of avalanche-prone snow fields. We nervously crossed two of them and [...]

Sherman

This was fairly straight forward. Took most of the summer route but decided to take a shortcut and go up a steep 30-40 degree snow and talus covered side of Sherman. We hit 30-40 mph winds on the ridge that were knocking us down from the left side of the ridge where the actual trail [...]