Re: [pct-l]Winter Trips Anyone?

["Richard Calliger (510.502.5552)" <calliger@infolane.com>]

At 6:26 PM -0000 11.22.99, Brick Robbins wrote:
>"Richard Calliger (510.502.5552)" <calliger@infolane.com> wrote:
>
>>Anyone interested in a short 3-4 day trip either from  Yosemite or
>>somewhere on the East-side of the Sierra, say Bishop or Mamouth, CA?
>
>>Possibly use crampons but snowshoes with 6 or 8 points work well.
>
>I'd be game, avalanche conditions not withstanding
>
>Ever do any ski trips? Metal edged tele skis with skins always worked
>better for me than snowshoes, plus you get the added benefit of an fun
>descent.
>
>One of my favorite places is Toulomne Meadows in the winter. The ski hut
>there (at the CampGround)  makes a nice destination. Even if one camps
>outside cause it's full, it gives a nice place to dry one's sleeping bag.
>If one is lazy (and has the extra time and cash) one can spend a night or
>two at Tioga pass resort on the way in, and they'll snowmobile the packs
>up from the point of winter closure the lodge at the top of the pass. Make
>the climb easier.  Winter Slack-Packing!
>
>-Brick
>
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Been there done that and you are RIGHT! Quite a blast at the hut-
especially if you
were farsighted enuf to stash 20 lbs of food (and wine of course) in the cache
behind the hut before they closed TM  !! (I did that last year, passed on
it this
year (gained 5 lbs on that trip!!)

But I am game for something this year- gotta be snow shoes for me as I am the
worlds' most untrainable skier ever! I have taken so many lessons - group
and private and I still can't do a bunny slope and I droul at the BD's!!

Rich



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