Sherrill 3-10-13
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 6:33 pm
Was still 2 feet of snow, and we followed some other snowshoers up. We didn't get to the trailhead until about 10:30, and by then it was already warm enough to not have coats on. We heard a steady howling in the valley that sounded eerie. It was like a wounded wolf or coyote or something. We never saw any tracks or heard it after we got up Sherrill.
The tracks we followed were fresh, but the snow was just starting to warm up. Here is Frank below some large Hemlocks.
I used the photomerge to make this out of 3 shots of a huge hemlock.
The trail up
The unbroken snow
I'm pretty sure this is Halcott. It's hard to tell which way our backs were facing.
Funny because Frank took 3 pictures of me and this is the only one in focus. Oh well...
Frank by the canister
We headed down into the valley between the two mountains
Sherrill from the lower portion of North Dome. It started getting really hot and we turned around and abandoned North Dome. It was so hot and the snow was reflecting so much in between those mountains, that as we climbed back out we both got sunburn.
We ran into the party that was ahead of us, and they were heading back up Sherrill. We started sinking in the snow pretty bad, like over 1 ft because it was melting so much. We climbed back up to Sherrill and then back down the way we had come to the parking lot.
The tracks we followed were fresh, but the snow was just starting to warm up. Here is Frank below some large Hemlocks.
I used the photomerge to make this out of 3 shots of a huge hemlock.
The trail up
The unbroken snow
I'm pretty sure this is Halcott. It's hard to tell which way our backs were facing.
Funny because Frank took 3 pictures of me and this is the only one in focus. Oh well...
Frank by the canister
We headed down into the valley between the two mountains
Sherrill from the lower portion of North Dome. It started getting really hot and we turned around and abandoned North Dome. It was so hot and the snow was reflecting so much in between those mountains, that as we climbed back out we both got sunburn.
We ran into the party that was ahead of us, and they were heading back up Sherrill. We started sinking in the snow pretty bad, like over 1 ft because it was melting so much. We climbed back up to Sherrill and then back down the way we had come to the parking lot.