Rusty and I were bored yesterday and decided to set off for a hike up one of the draws of the peak that sits in front of our house.
Here we are on the power line trail shortly after parking. You’ll notice these power lines in the photos from above.
We weren’t too sure which draw was going to lead us to the one we wanted, and with only minimal backtracking and brush busting we managed to find our way to it and this site that they are creating for a runoff retention pond.
As you will notice, here and in photos ahead, the amount of runoff that must come raging down this draw in a heavy downpour is rather dramatic.
The first little waterfall and patch of snow we encountered.
The remaining snowpack is rather wet and couldn’t hold my weight, but Rusty had no problem.
A much appreciated pool. A few degrees warmer and I would have been in there with him!
First shot back down. You can see the power line trail and the huge water path we climbed to get to this point. Here we are finally on the rocks that we set off to put our hands and feet upon.
A little farther up. All rockies!
I tried to ski down on some snow on the edges here and there and only sunk to my waist. Seeing an 8 foot hole in the middle of one of these patches told me I didn’t want to be anywhere near the middle of one.
Awesome. Looks like a sail.
Rusty the conqueror!
He passed through this opening with ease but rather than scratch myself all up I just went up and over a couple of broke away boulders.
I could spend days just sitting up here in these rocks.
Cool heart shaped snow patch.
We really had no intent of reaching the summit this day, and it would have been another couple of hours at least. But we did want to reach this last visible waterfall.
After a nice lunch and a rest we began the 2.5 hour hike back down. Heck of a way to spend an afternoon!
I can’t wait to take it on again. Perhaps we’ll do the LH route up and make it to the top after the snow melts.
Oh, and we always welcome company!
Jeremy A
