Far Below

This is us headed back down in the lower elevations.

You can see the snow on the trees. The mountain had received nearly three ft. of snow in the last three days. That's a lot of snow through which to break trail.

A single inch of snow can drift to a foot. Imagine what 36" of snow can drift to?

A couple of times we found ourselves in drifts up to our waste - above treeline with 40mph winds bearing down on us.

To say the mountain didn't want us there would be an understatement.

- b