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| MonteCristo Bike and Silver Lake Hike | ||||||||||||||||||
| In November of 2004 after the first snowfall hit Alex, Tom and I decided to bike into MonteCristo and then hike into Silver Lake to see what the backcountry snow conditions were like. However, at the trailhead we encountered a minor problem in that my bike had two flats and Tom's bike pump didn't work. That meant that we had 2 bikes for 3 people. The solution was to have Alex and I do some leap frog biking where one of us would bike ahead; leave the bike; then hike until the other had retrieved the bike; biked ahead and then repeated this process. All went smooth until Alex left the bike off to the side of the road and in the shade appx 1/2 a mile from MonteCristo. The net result of this was that Three of us ended up at the townsite with only 1 bike between us! The hike from the townsite was snowfree for the 1st half mile and it then gradulally increased until we hit the lake where we found about 2 feet of fresh snow. This was a bit surprising and it did slow us down some as we made our snowshoeless way through it. The hightlikes of the hike were ... - Alex leading Fido through the snow - The 1st view of Silvertip Peak - The views of Wilman's Spire |
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| <- Wilman's Spires through the trees |
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| <-- Silver Lake & Silvertip Peak |
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| *** These photos are all copywrite protected and can NOT be reused without my consent *** | ||||||||||||||||||
