A Guard friend of Tyler's Invited Tyler, Malcolm, and I to hike up Quandary and board down it. The day before the hike Tyler's buddy calls in sick, and since we already rented snow shoes we decided to go by ourselves. Above is a picture right before we hit the trail at 0840. 
The trail head map thingy that tould us to stay on the path.
We somehow missed the actual trail and ended up hiking on this road about a mile until we realized our mistake. We turned around and found a trail that lead to the main trail so we didn't have to hike all the way back.
There was a good sized tree that fell down and I tried walking over it and then the snow caved in and I got stuck under it....that was fun getting out :P
Almost to treeline.
We stopped here to eat food. When we were eating the wind really started picking up so we decided to gear up for the way down. We're kinda regretting not summiting, but we were tired and if we did summit there is a saddle between the real summit and the false summit so we would've had to hike up a little ways before continuing down. 
It was a beautiful day! A little hot but still wonderful!
We started down at 1245.
The snow was really deep and heavy. We post holed (or sinking deep into the snow making it hard and funny to get out) quite often. 
We got down at 1450(2:50 for us civilians). Things we learned:
1. Pack light!
2. Leave early: around 5-6am would've been best because the snow would've been hard and we wouldn't have sunk as many times.
3. There's nothing like a sunny day hiking a 14'er...weather you summit or not!
5 comments:
Wow... looks like a cool, fun time!
Or... maybe not *cool*, since it would have been a little warm...
Looks like it could have been a lot of fun, of course with out the sinking but you'd think that if you stay moving you wouldn't sink but I don't know...
That looks like WAAAAAY too much work..
Don't you guys have ski passes?
Looks.... fun?
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