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hikerjo
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Joined: 05 Sep 2002
Posts: 752 | TRs | Pics

	hikerjo Top Member
	Tue Dec 30, 2003 5:40 pm Top

Affraid that we might die in our toyota cammera trying to get up the icy road to the McClellan's Butte parking area, we opted instead to park down by the river, across from the highway maintence shed. We started hiking around 10:20 am. At the trailhead the snow was about 4 inches deep and after hiking nearly 2 hours it was about 4 feet deep. It was very difficult trying to find the trail and hardwork without snowshoes. We got to a big avalanche chute and decided to turn around and go back because we no longer new where the trail was.

It was a waste of a day!

I think I have been turned away from more mountains then I have climbed.

Dean
(aka CascadeHiker)

Joined: 02 Mar 2002
Posts: 1967 | TRs | Pics
Location: ex Kennewick, Wa & Lehi Utah

	Dean Top (aka CascadeHiker)
	Tue Dec 30, 2003 7:19 pm Top

The fact that you got outdoors made it worthwhile. You also exercised good judgement when you decided to turn around and call it a day. So, to my way of looking at it, you didn't "waste" the day and McB will be there at a later time.

Dean - working in Utah for awhile and feeling like it is a 'paid' vacation. http://www.summitpost.org/user_page.php?user_id=1160

Backpacker Joe
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Joined: 16 Dec 2001
Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics
Location: Cle Elum

	Backpacker Joe Top Blind Hiker
	Tue Dec 30, 2003 7:42 pm Top

Ie done that hike ONCE (God help me) in the summer. I dont know if it can be done in the winter? There are many slide areas. Stick to Granite Mtn, Mt. Si, Mt. defiance, and surrounding peaks. You'll have more fun. TB

"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide." — Abraham Lincoln

Malachai Constant
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Joined: 13 Jan 2002
Posts: 16092 | TRs | Pics
Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny

	Malachai Constant Top Member
	Tue Dec 30, 2003 8:15 pm Top

Scott'terrx did it up the north col last year in May but it would be a death wish now

"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn

hikerjo
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Joined: 05 Sep 2002
Posts: 752 | TRs | Pics

	hikerjo Top Member
	Tue Dec 30, 2003 8:35 pm Top

Happy new year's Joe wrote:

I have done all those mountains in the winter though.

It can deffinatly be done in the winter, I just had no clue where I was going. We did have to go through a couple of avalanche chutes, but it was so cold today that there was hardly any risk. But, like cascadehiker says, theres always another day.

A few of my dads friends also did a winter accesnt of the north col. They said as they were doing it they heard an avalanche coming, ran off to the side, and it went right past them. It looks exciting.

peppersteak'n'ale
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Joined: 28 Aug 2003
Posts: 1996 | TRs | Pics

	peppersteak'n'ale Top Member
	Tue Dec 30, 2003 8:49 pm Top

I sat in the office all day, but I did get a glimpse of the mountains on my way in this morning. That's all.

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