A note of caution about Granite Mountain. The winds that funnel through the pass often cross-load those slopes with snow that may feel solid on the surface but have unstable layers below. I once triggered a slab avalanche up there when I was on a small snowpatch with rocks and grass sticking out of it. The facture went off like a gunshot and an adjacent bowl cut loose, piling up blocks up to the size of a computer monitor in the pile of debris at the bottom.
McPlagiraize, there's a little more to it, but I won't go into that nor will I even go there. And there are a few buds of mine here on this board that know what I mean. Enough said.
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