I knew that a few hikers were road walking around this section, but I didn’t realize that most seem to be. Today was an extremely challenging snow day. The slopes were incredibly steep, which made solid footing a necessity. Unfortunately, the snow started off so hard that it was difficult to kick steps into, and later became so slushy that I slid right out of the footsteps I was trying to make. Much of the trail was buried under feet of snow, and since there had been so few (I am guessing) hikers ahead of me, there were many areas were there were no tracks to follow, and I was just scootin’ along, making my own trail.
This was all forgotten when I arrived at the campsite Tom had chosen. We enjoyed the surreal, heavenly views until well after sunset, and hurried outside before sunrise to enjoy that too.
