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This was a cool trip. It was foggy the whole time. Everything past like 6k feet was covered in rime ice. Our guide stopped at one point, right at the beginning of this super sketchy avalanche zone, and walked off into the mist to check on things. It was cool to watch this grizzled old cowboy disappear into the mist like a ghost. The work itself sucked balls, the tower was covered in rime ice that was really frozen on, I think it got down to -20°F after wind chill, we actually weren't even able to finish our work because we were hitting our per-person climb limit quicker than usual. But the ride down (which is when this pic was taken) was cool because the fog never lifted and the sunset colored the fog so the entire world turned cotton candy colors inside our warm little vehicle. I remember drifting in and out of consciousness and being so appreciative of it all.
>>2785539I don't remember this exact trip but it looks like it was actually a pretty mellow one. Climb up, wack ice, get tired, come down.
>>2785541This was a summer trip. Those kick ass. It was always like 50-60°F at the peak, and you'd get these insane views. The only shitty part was that the mountain formed a sort of ramp, so once you got more than 30 or 40' up in the air you'd get blasted with nonstop wind. But at least it was nice out.
>>2785542I think tbis trip was the same as picrel. Those are pine trees under there. I always thought they looked like dog poops. The snow here had a 3" layer of ice and then about 7-8' of snow below it.
