Well consider it claimed! But not without some serious tenacity. By far the most difficult physical activity I’ve ever done. It took us 7 hours to summit. I know we stayed “on trail” most of the time, but honestly I couldn’t tell you exactly how we got there. I know when we came to the intersection near the top where Dollar Lake / Vivian Creek come together we were on the Dollar Creek trail (and we followed our tracks down). We ran into the Ranger at High Camp and he gave us “directions” from there. Pretty much straight uphill.
Conditions were horrible. It was windy (they said 65 mph at top), and blazing sun. On the way down the snow was similar to quicksand. It took us 5 hours to come down.
Despite all that… it was truly EPIC! If anyone is interested let me know… I’m down to conquer it again. This time I’ll make sure I don’t forget the snow shoes… micro spikes got the job done… but snow shoes would have been wonderful through the meadows.
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