Memorial Weekend 2013, Day 1

Patrols 14 and 6 made our way out to Salida for the weekend to do some camping and wheeling. We had a large group show up for Saturday and so we split into 2 groups. One group tackled the mammoth snow on Hancock. I led a group up Mary Murphy mine. The mill portion of the mine was only 1 mile from the main county road, and we officially made it 1.3 miles. There were some deep drifts at that point, and we were not there for just snow busting so we turned around and headed for another trail.

We next hit up Baldwin Lakes/Mt Antero. From the main country road, we made it just shy of 5 miles on Baldwin. A couple of use busted fresh trail for about 1.3 miles until we turned around. We headed towards Antero were we only made it 1 mile past the split at the lake. At this point there was off camber snow drifts dropping into the creek. This was not the time for that.

Next on the list was Grizzly Lake. Last year the rock wall eluded me and I was determined to climb it unassisted this year. The wall is only about .2 miles in. Only a 4 of us crossed the creek and attempted the wall, but only 3 were successful. I finally climbed my way up. As well as Ben, and Pete. We turned around and called it a day after this.