[Kenji]

Since skiing was pretty awful after the tropical rain last week, we headed to Suntop Lookout for star gazing. We did take our ski gear thinking we'd be skinning the road most of the way. However, there was no snow at the snow park and until about 3400'. We hiked the first 3 miles with our ski boots, which were not made for hiking unlike those old leather ski boots. Skinning the last 2 miles was on hard crust, maybe 1/4" of light powder. I think this destination will be good for hiking w/o any flotation devices for a while, maybe microspikes for the last bit. The night was clear and the sunrise was beautifu. Skiing down was challenging but good for practicing snowplow...

Stars in Summer time will be gorgeous:

High clouds made the beautiful sunrise:

Fremont Lookout visible in the lower left

[Kenji]

We saw many "Frost Flower" formations along the road:

Frost Flower

[KascadeFlat]

Congrats on a beautiful outing! It's trippy to see the lookout surround by snow since I have only ever seen it in the summertime.

[awilsondc]

Amazing sunrise Kenji! Sorry the skiing has been poor lately, hopefully it'll pick up here in the next couple months. I hadn't heard of Suntop before, I'll have to keep that one in mind. Nice report!

[reststep]

Really nice. Thanks for sharing. I think I can see Mt. Fremont Lookout in a couple the pictures.

[timberghost]

Any temperature estimation

[Hiker Mama]

Wow, Kenji! Brilliant!