Originally Posted by
shmoesmith
OH fuck, what a trip. yes we were drinking...heavily. hang over from hell this morning. Did some true moutaineering by snowfire's definition(going very slow up a mountain while feeling like shit from drinking too heavily the night before). Our packs were WAY too heavy with full winter backpacking gear, plus full ski/snowboarding gear and touring setups.
The snow SUCKED. Skinning up we would break through the upper freeze into rotten snow. On the way down from the one mountain we did (mt. watson) each time I would turn, I would break through the freeze and fall into 2 feet of facets which would promptly slam my knee caps into the freeze and try and throw me over the handle bars. By the time we got to the bottom we just decided to fuck it and head home. Back on goes the 60lb packs and out to the car again.
We got home aroudn 8:30 and ordered a pizza. We are both sore. Good exercise, but that was about it. We got in about 4K of vertical and 5 miles of skinning/hiking