Flume, Liberty, Lincoln, Lafayette, 3/8

[blaze]

Up: Osseo
Down: Falling Waters (yeah, doubled back over Lincoln)

Dawn's Early Light

Flume, from Liberty

The view north from Liberty

W. Bond, S Twin, Bondcliff

Lenticulars over the presis

A view back at Lincoln

Falling Waters Trail

Conditions:
I barebooted onto Osseo (which was broken, thank goodness) then put on microspikes, to somewhere between 3,000' and 4,000', when I switched to snowshoes. Upper Osseo was soft, but broken.

Pretty well packed on the ridge between Flume Slide and Liberty Spring.

Very light traffic between Liberty Spring and Falling Waters... some barebooters went part way (leaving a mess of postholes, partially blown over) before they turned back. I broke trail from there to the Falling Waters junction. There was firm snow under there... somewhere. I knew very soon when I stepped off it. Still, it was harder going than I'd expected.

The ridge from Falling Waters to Lafayette was in great shape - back to microspikes. Ditto for the descent on Falling Waters.

A fantastic day, windy but mild.

Full gallery

 

[Billy]

Beautiful light in the third pic.
Am I just sleep deprived or is there a monkey ice climbing in the last pic?

 

[John in NH]

Blaze,

Thanks for taking the time to share your great shots as usual. Looks like you got sunrise on Liberty-- must have been awesome. I bet it was windy when you were on the ridge that day. I took the shot below that day from the Osceola's around 11 am, you could just see the winds in the cloud formations.

Your ice shot is very nicely composed. I see the ice climbing creature too, in the upper center of the shot!

 

[Snowflea]

Beautiful shots. I was up there yesterday and didn't see any of these views. Thank you for breaking out Liberty to Little Haystack.

The ice monkey shot is wild! Did you see it when you took the photo?

On your 4th photo, I don't think that's South Twin.

 

[blaze]

Thanks for the kind comments!

No I did not see the ice climbing monkey. Wish I could take credit for that. I was certainly sleep deprived enough when I took it. =)

Yeah Stinkyfeet, I should edit that 4th photo caption to W Bond, Bond, Bondcliff. Agree? Thank you for pointing that out.

Great shot John, thanks for sharing.

One more of the Presis from that day.

Jonathan

 

[TJsName]

Yeah Stinkyfeet, I should edit that 4th photo caption to W Bond, Bond, Bondcliff. Agree? Thank you for pointing that out.

One more of the Presis from that day.

Jonathan

You could just call that pic 'Owl's Head, The Bonds, Hancocks, and Carrigan' if you wanted to really go for it.

I think you're being funny with that new pic, as that is South Twin (with Galehead photo-bombing in the foreground).