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I have had to turn around 3 times in a fucking row on the same mountain. Shit sucked so much ass.
>first attempt: way too much snow. unfamiliar with the area. trail was covered. generally unprepared. turned around about 90 minutes in
>second attempt: still way too much snow, but parts of the trail were visible. postholed to about .5 miles from the summit which was way harder than I thought. ended up turning around due to decreasing sunlight, increasing cold/snow, and delirium from exhaustion/altitude. this was the hardest hike ive ever done in my life. fuck plodding through snow without snowshoes
>third attempt: no snow. sunny skies. lets fucking do this. tried a more difficult route we found on AllTrails which had 4.2k feet of elevation gain versus the usual 2k. wanted to camp out and summit in the morning. we figure out after climbing 3k feet with our 50lb packs in the hot sun that this is not a real trail and some dumb fuck chink legitimately walked up the side of the mountain and decided to log it. exhaustion and delirium from altitude made us turn around.
