Made it back to the yurt and had lunch and then strapped on the snowshoes and headed towards Trujillo Meadow Reservoir. We made it down to the meadow and decided to turn back since we had to climb out of the valley before dark.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Those Wonderful Day Hikes
On Sunday at the yurt trip, I took a day hike with my friend Jim. We had a plan to head to a ridge, but the huge blisters on my feet made me decide to just stick to the forest road and leave the snowshoes at the yurt. Well we weren't were we expected to be and I like to forge my own way, so we ended up in the deep snow trucking through wherever my whims and my navigation took us.
Made it back to the yurt and had lunch and then strapped on the snowshoes and headed towards Trujillo Meadow Reservoir. We made it down to the meadow and decided to turn back since we had to climb out of the valley before dark.
The topo of our day hike (all markings are approximations) :) I certainly do like some of the things on my new computer. I think I drew too small to read it though...so....the purple is the yurt location, the maroon arrow is the road we thought we were hiking and the black arrow and black route above the yurt was our actual location in the morning and the orange arrow and black route below the yurt is the afternoon snowshoe to the meadow. (click on the picture though, then you get the details).
Barely seen between the two trees is Jarosa Peak, the peak we hiked up last year at Grouse Creek yurt on the other side of the mountain.
Made it back to the yurt and had lunch and then strapped on the snowshoes and headed towards Trujillo Meadow Reservoir. We made it down to the meadow and decided to turn back since we had to climb out of the valley before dark.
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2 comments:
So are the lines there from a GPS track or just your best guess?
And that's 11,766' Jarosa Peak between the trees, although it only has 86' of prominence, so technically it's a sub-peak of a point on the continental divide northwest of your yurt. That peak is only marked on the topo with a benchmark called "Flat" and the elevation of 12,187'(maybe that's why they call the nearby yurt "Flat Mountain Yurt"?). It would be fun to try and find that benchmark sometime, though I bet it would be pretty difficult in the winter:)
oh and by the way that second picture is really neat.
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