We made it! We hiked, skied and snowshoe into Tolovana Hot Springs this weekend with a great big group of friends. This is Kristen, Brown and I just getting there, we hiked the entire 10mile trail in the dark. Little did we know this would be the easy hike. Ed was already at the cabin because he skiis so fast and then lights the fire, fetches water and has hot water ready for us when we arrive. Check out
Ed's blog for very nice post of the way out, when we had waist deep snow drifts and 50 below wind chills!
Here we are hanging out at the Cabin, the hotsprings are about 1/4 mile hike up the hill, a very chilly run back to the cabin with those wind chills!
Shortly after we arrived on Friday a blizzard came in bringing blowing snow and very windy conditions. Here are Brown and Cob leaving on Saturday, heading out into those crazy conditions. We also had Jackson, Dana, Ann and Libby arrive on Saturday night. Then later that night Heather arrived and did the hike alone, that is pretty burly to go over Tolovana Dome in that weather!
Sunday morning Ben and I headed out early and the wind had not stopped, but the snow storm had. This is leaving the cabin, before we discovered the next 9 miles were covered with snow drifts! Ben carried my sled and his backpack, he is my love sherpa :-) It was a long 7 hours out, it was pretty tough hike for me this year and I am home with a cold today. I am glad everyone made it out safe and it was a great weekend!
The start of the snow drifts that are the trail.
Ben getting ready to climb a snow drift. We call this slogging along.
We made it! We hiked, skied and snowshoe into Tolovana Hot Springs this weekend with a great big group of friends. This is Kristen, Brown and I just getting there, we hiked the entire 10mile trail in the dark. Little did we know this would be the easy hike. Ed was already at the cabin because he skiis so fast and then lights the fire, fetches water and has hot water ready for us when we arrive. Check out Ed's blog for very nice post of the way out, when we had waist deep snow drifts and 50 below wind chills!
Here we are hanging out at the Cabin, the hotsprings are about 1/4 mile hike up the hill, a very chilly run back to the cabin with those wind chills!
Shortly after we arrived on Friday a blizzard came in bringing blowing snow and very windy conditions. Here are Brown and Cob leaving on Saturday, heading out into those crazy conditions. We also had Jackson, Dana, Ann and Libby arrive on Saturday night. Then later that night Heather arrived and did the hike alone, that is pretty burly to go over Tolovana Dome in that weather!
Sunday morning Ben and I headed out early and the wind had not stopped, but the snow storm had. This is leaving the cabin, before we discovered the next 9 miles were covered with snow drifts! Ben carried my sled and his backpack, he is my love sherpa :-) It was a long 7 hours out, it was pretty tough hike for me this year and I am home with a cold today. I am glad everyone made it out safe and it was a great weekend!
The start of the snow drifts that are the trail.
Ben getting ready to climb a snow drift. We call this slogging along.
2 comments:
oh yeah, that looks familiar! it didn't look much different the day before except that we had snow blowing in our face! good times!
Yay for Dea and Ben and all the gang getting out to Tolovana! Hope you're feeling better soon Dea. Take care and keep living it large!
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