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Overnite on Summit 4-28-12
#23409 04/29/12 08:44 PM
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Had a beautiful weekend at Whitney, arrived at 7pm Friday at the Portal to say hi to Doug ,Richard, Miles & Amy. Saturday morning while getting ready in the parking lot, met Calico and Norma, at the old trail head met Joan with Norma and hiked with them until we split up at mirror lake. Took the chute up which at this time is getting very warm. Going up chute with sun in my face, had to find a rhythm so it was 12 steps up, 20 to 30 sec. rest. Got to Trail Crest at 1:15.

Arrived at Summit at 4:35 to find my favorite wind break full of snow so I made a small one for my stove behind Hut. At about 6 pm there was a dark cloud overhead and a couple of small snowflakes fell and that was it.

Adam Burchey showed up at this time from the MR route stayed awhile with his friend then went down the 400 to their camp at iceberg.
The night was clear and around 25 until the early morning where it was 21 deg.

Got up at 4:30am Sunday made 2 cups of coffee snacks and headed down at 6:20. The only time I used crampons was when I got to Trail Crest at 8am and not knowing how the condition of the chute was, I did heel first for most of the chute and glissaded a couple of times.

Never used my hardshell, or winter gloves. very light breeze off and on all weekend.

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Re: Overnite on Summit 4-28-12
So.BayMark #23415 04/29/12 11:32 PM
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Thanks for posting the report and the pictures, Mark. Looks like quite a few people were heading up this weekend.

And congratulations surviving the summit altitude. You must be acclimatized a bit from all the weekend climbing.

Re: Overnite on Summit 4-28-12
Steve C #23420 04/30/12 06:52 AM
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So fun to run into you on the old trail, sounds like a fun weekend!


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Re: Overnite on Summit 4-28-12
MooseTracks #23422 04/30/12 07:05 AM
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Like a class reunion up there this weekend.

Re: Overnite on Summit 4-28-12
So.BayMark #23424 04/30/12 07:08 AM
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We had trouble sleeping at 12000ish at Iceberg - Mark is a champ to hang up top. He was looking very professional with that Uber bivy and tea-filled titanium mug.


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