this is why nobody goes to Easter Summit on Saddle
Re: this is why nobody goes to Easter Summit on Saddle
Chip, I took this photo yesterday of Saddle from the river. The middle peak was slightly obscured in the clouds later on it came out I observed even steeper terrain coming off it on your route near the top. Its a grainy photo, but really shows the difficulty in elevation loss/gain over the relatively short distance...
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Re: this is why nobody goes to Easter Summit on Saddle
Fascinating picture.
I'm amazed at how easy the descent from East to the East/Easter saddle appears, compared to the much lower saddle between East and the highest/western summit. Just shaking my head in disbelief at that. Gaining the East summit took maybe 20-30 minutes from the saddle...again, hard to imagine from the picture. Looks like it would take so much longer.
Mountains are weird.
I'm amazed at how easy the descent from East to the East/Easter saddle appears, compared to the much lower saddle between East and the highest/western summit. Just shaking my head in disbelief at that. Gaining the East summit took maybe 20-30 minutes from the saddle...again, hard to imagine from the picture. Looks like it would take so much longer.
Mountains are weird.