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Mount Sill
Mount Sill – This was my second attempt that year and overall. We’ve tried earlier in the season w/ Peter and Sarah but it was too much snow to plow through. Coming back much later – in October – for a semi-photo tour of North Fork of Big Pine Creek. Stayed overnight right at the Second Lake to observe Temple Crag in the morning (wink-wink – it isn’t getting much sunrise). But while the sunrise wasn’t exactly colorful (by Eastern Sierra standards), we still loved it – after all how can you not like this area – duh, any time. We promptly proceeded to Palisade Glacier and I remember how far snow retreated since the last time of my visit.
It’s a rugged terrain, in fact I wouldn’t be there much longer than absolutely necessary as for the rock fall is constant and quite real (I almost got hit by a giant boulder once on the U notch descending NorPal)
Topping the saddle between Sill and Gayley I remember guys decided to proceed to latter while I was set on Sill (doing the previous “undones” is a strong motivator, right?). Slow as I was, guys patiently waited for me on the top of Gayley and took some awesome pictures across (see Rob’s flow)
One memory that will stay w/ me forever was a giant boulder that me and Lorenzo unwillingly dislodged upon the descend. It was not just massive, it was a size of a full-size truck, rolling down it produced so much noise and almost took Lorenzo w/ it. It was scary.
Mount Sill
Mount Sill – This was my second attempt that year and overall. We’ve tried earlier in the season w/ Peter and Sarah but it was too much snow to plow through. Coming back much later – in October – for a semi-photo tour of North Fork of Big Pine Creek. Stayed overnight right at the Second Lake to observe Temple Crag in the morning (wink-wink – it isn’t getting much sunrise). But while the sunrise wasn’t exactly colorful (by Eastern Sierra standards), we still loved it – after all how can you not like this area – duh, any time. We promptly proceeded to Palisade Glacier and I remember how far snow retreated since the last time of my visit.
It’s a rugged terrain, in fact I wouldn’t be there much longer than absolutely necessary as for the rock fall is constant and quite real (I almost got hit by a giant boulder once on the U notch descending NorPal)
Topping the saddle between Sill and Gayley I remember guys decided to proceed to latter while I was set on Sill (doing the previous “undones” is a strong motivator, right?). Slow as I was, guys patiently waited for me on the top of Gayley and took some awesome pictures across (see Rob’s flow)
One memory that will stay w/ me forever was a giant boulder that me and Lorenzo unwillingly dislodged upon the descend. It was not just massive, it was a size of a full-size truck, rolling down it produced so much noise and almost took Lorenzo w/ it. It was scary.