Summited Quandary today what a storm it was
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SKIBREC
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Re: Summited Quandary today what a storm it was
snow and wind.......35 yrs plus exper in the mtns ...plus working at resort on the lifts.we have wind meters on most of them...u look at them long enough you can gauge what the wind speed is.....plus i had a wind meter with me
Mike & Gail
There's no such thing as bad weather... just the wrong gear
There's no such thing as bad weather... just the wrong gear
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Steaky
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Re: Summited Quandary today what a storm it was
Depends what kind of gear, training, and experience you have. Quandary's East Ridge is about as "easy" as it gets for a winter ascent, and if doing that is out of your league, I would be very, very cautious about any 14ers in the next few weeks, given the avalanche danger.TrevorM wrote:Alright thanks for the headsup guys i'l avoid Quandary. I dont mean to hijack this thread, but is there a better peak for someone like me along the sawatch range? From Denver I'm going to be heading SW via 70w, 91s, and 24s toward salida
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Dave B
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Re: Summited Quandary today what a storm it was
Steaky wrote:Depends what kind of gear, training, and experience you have. Quandary's East Ridge is about as "easy" as it gets for a winter ascent, and if doing that is out of your league, I would be very, very cautious about any 14ers in the next few weeks, given the avalanche danger.TrevorM wrote:Alright thanks for the headsup guys i'l avoid Quandary. I dont mean to hijack this thread, but is there a better peak for someone like me along the sawatch range? From Denver I'm going to be heading SW via 70w, 91s, and 24s toward salida
I agree that "easy" is subjective when it comes to winter 14ers. On a ski descent of Quandary yesterday, my girlfriend dislocated her knee when she hit a patch of slush mixed in with breakable crust snow. Getting her down with thunderstorms looming through knee to waist deep slush resulted in a mini-epic on one of the "easiest" 14ers.
On blue-bird days it can be easy, but things can go wrong quickly and make the simplest of things a nightmare quickly.
Make wilderness less accessible.
