Lucky Laura
Active member
Set off early from Beaver ski area and cut over to Gale River road. Snowshoes needed up Gale River trail, which was well packed to the ridge. (No signs of tracks heading toward East and West Garfield). Wind scoured area around Galehead Hut hid most tracks in the col to Galehead summit. With dense fog and wind, it was a little tricky but no problem once ascending.
No tracks on South Twin and deep, drifts en route up- took an easy pace to allay sweat. Dense fog concealed all views. Saw a few tracks heading East on Twinway and was delighted to find some obvious tracks to North Twin. Approaching the col, they were completely lost but managed to continue course and pick them up on ascent to North Twin. Again, the winds made route finding difficult off top of North Twin but managed to figure it out.
Made the mistake of not heading directly to 7 Dwarves and route 3 (possible hitch back) and instead followed the snow mobile trails back to Gale River road- silly mistake!
Nice to be out and to see the fog lifting off Franconia as I drove home in the early afternoon.
No tracks on South Twin and deep, drifts en route up- took an easy pace to allay sweat. Dense fog concealed all views. Saw a few tracks heading East on Twinway and was delighted to find some obvious tracks to North Twin. Approaching the col, they were completely lost but managed to continue course and pick them up on ascent to North Twin. Again, the winds made route finding difficult off top of North Twin but managed to figure it out.
Made the mistake of not heading directly to 7 Dwarves and route 3 (possible hitch back) and instead followed the snow mobile trails back to Gale River road- silly mistake!
Nice to be out and to see the fog lifting off Franconia as I drove home in the early afternoon.
