b]Date(s) Hiked:[/b] January 30, 2010
Trails(s) Hiked: Old Toll Road & White Arrow
Total Distance: about 4.5 miles RT
Difficulty: Moderate, it's actually pretty easy for winter but you have to be careful on the ice.
Conditions: White Arrow is pretty icy but a couple of hundred yards above the trees, enough rock to step on so crampons not needed at the very top.
Special Required Equipment: If you head right up the ice flow, I think your need crampons. Plenty of tracks going around the mail flow looked like a couple of icy spots there. I suspect the micro-spike users went that way
Trip Report: I started late, (10:20) and my slow pace got me up to the summit after a large group had just left to head back to Park HQ. Just me & three people at 12:45. Didn't feel like layering up so only spent a couple fo minutes up there which was more than one soloist who came up from the park, he hit the top & turned around. On my way down saw a few people still heading up, one girl who probably finished soon after I did. The later groups were not set on summitting, just catching some views. Enough clear spots fro 7-10 cars. The main part of the Old Toll Road lot was passable to pick-ups & SUVs. I probably could have got my Forester in there but there were enough spots in the plowed section.
Trails(s) Hiked: Old Toll Road & White Arrow
Total Distance: about 4.5 miles RT
Difficulty: Moderate, it's actually pretty easy for winter but you have to be careful on the ice.
Conditions: White Arrow is pretty icy but a couple of hundred yards above the trees, enough rock to step on so crampons not needed at the very top.
Special Required Equipment: If you head right up the ice flow, I think your need crampons. Plenty of tracks going around the mail flow looked like a couple of icy spots there. I suspect the micro-spike users went that way
Trip Report: I started late, (10:20) and my slow pace got me up to the summit after a large group had just left to head back to Park HQ. Just me & three people at 12:45. Didn't feel like layering up so only spent a couple fo minutes up there which was more than one soloist who came up from the park, he hit the top & turned around. On my way down saw a few people still heading up, one girl who probably finished soon after I did. The later groups were not set on summitting, just catching some views. Enough clear spots fro 7-10 cars. The main part of the Old Toll Road lot was passable to pick-ups & SUVs. I probably could have got my Forester in there but there were enough spots in the plowed section.
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