Spring is in the air

Directly out my bedroom window to the east  sits  . It rises out of the valley floor to 10,800 feet. It’s formed by sitting directly on the San Andreas fault making it’s eastern slope the steepest and tallest slope in the lower 48, rising almost straight up 10,000 feet from the desert floor.

I look at the mountain every morning waiting for enough snow to melt to make a run at it. Last year we made one attempt at the summit in the spring and got shut down from the amount of snow we had to fight through. We ran out of time and had to scurry back down.

There is a rather small window of time to climb it because there isn’t really any running water up there and it gets wicked hot in the summer. Plus you avoid the crowds if you aren’t afraid of a little snow.

Micah and I are on standby, waiting for the conditions to be right.

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