Who Wants to See Southern Deso?
Posted: Mon May 12, 2014 7:48 am
I took the little girls up to Sayles Flat on Saturday. We needed a good workout so we climbed the 4 mile, 2800 foot Ralston Peak Trail.
We met a young couple at the TH. Mike and Silvia had never climbed this trail. Knowing there was probably snow near the summit we decided we would complete the climb together. This worked out well for me because their youth forced me to really work hard to keep up.
We started to run into patchy snow at about 8000 feet.
The snow became pretty solid at the turnoff for the shortcut at 8440 feet.
There was of course some open ground.
Just below the summit you could choose to climb on rocks or snow.
Once at the summit the weather really became foul. The clouds blocked the sun. The wind became gusty up to a gale of about 50 MPH. The temperature was already low but the wind chill was incredible.
Mike and Silvia took shelter behind a rock wall to enjoy their lunch.
Here are the pictures of Desolation Wilderness.
Pyramid Range and Lake of the Woods.
Jacks, Dicks Peak and Mt. Tallac. If you look carefully you can see Susie is still frozen.
Tamarack, Ralston and Cagwin are still covered in ice.
Echo is ice free but saucer is covered in snow.
The east ridge with the back side of Sierra at Tahoe, Elephants Back and Round Top in the background.
Thanks for reading my report.
-Russ
We met a young couple at the TH. Mike and Silvia had never climbed this trail. Knowing there was probably snow near the summit we decided we would complete the climb together. This worked out well for me because their youth forced me to really work hard to keep up.
We started to run into patchy snow at about 8000 feet.
The snow became pretty solid at the turnoff for the shortcut at 8440 feet.
There was of course some open ground.
Just below the summit you could choose to climb on rocks or snow.
Once at the summit the weather really became foul. The clouds blocked the sun. The wind became gusty up to a gale of about 50 MPH. The temperature was already low but the wind chill was incredible.
Mike and Silvia took shelter behind a rock wall to enjoy their lunch.
Here are the pictures of Desolation Wilderness.
Pyramid Range and Lake of the Woods.
Jacks, Dicks Peak and Mt. Tallac. If you look carefully you can see Susie is still frozen.
Tamarack, Ralston and Cagwin are still covered in ice.
Echo is ice free but saucer is covered in snow.
The east ridge with the back side of Sierra at Tahoe, Elephants Back and Round Top in the background.
Thanks for reading my report.
-Russ