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Mount Conness and North Peak, climbing Conness via the Glacier Route. This trip was much harder and took longer than I expected, mostly due to really soft snow conditions. I was postholing all day after about 9:30 am. Even the Conness Glacier was rotten and I was punching through up to my knees and hips seemingly with every other step. The Glacier Route gully was snow-filled and steeper than I expected with a short icy crux. The scramble to the summit of Conness from the notch was a fun catwalk over stable rock.
I had enough energy to make the climb to North Peak, again postholing through soft snow. My arrival at the summit of North Peak coincided with the start of a thunderstorm, hitting first with hail, then cold wind, then lightning and thunder. I hauled ass back down to the lakes basin before the lighting started in earnest.
The long hike out along Greenstone and Saddlebag lakes seemed to take forever: postholing the entire way (even in snowshoes!) with thunder cracking overhead. By the time I got back to the trailhead, the storm had dropped about three inches of fresh snow.
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out-and-backsnow on route, weather
ice axe, crampons, snowshoes, trekking poles