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I recently went with a friend up to an 11k foot tall peak to summit it. 16 miles, 4200 ft. climbed. We get to the last 1/3 mile of the climb, and despite the fact that we had 4 season poles, yaktraks, and a lot of experience hiking she balked at this. I agreed that we'd try again another day, because the entire face was a slush fest and she was freaking out about a mild rain storm that was beginning to hit ( it ended up not raining a ton).
How would you feel about this? We had about 600 feet over 1/3- 1/2 of a mile to climb in this slushy snow. Note the water flowing from the bottom right. What would you have done?
