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We parked at Montgomery Reservoir early in the morning and then walked up the 4x4 road to lake. Felt like there was a lot of water that created a small creek as we were navigating up the road, but it is easy to navigate around with some established offshoots. When we came back down in the afternoon, the road was pretty busy with off roading vehicles.
We followed standard South ridge route up Wheeler. The standard track keeps you lower on the mountain following an abundant amount of cairns. This rock is pretty loose in some spots and you're essentially traversing the side of the ridge to the summit. I initially tried to follow this track but then decided based on some other reports to try staying ridge direct. I liked staying on the ridge much better and would recommend it if you don't mind some exposure. There are two possible peaks, we feel confident that we were standing on the highest one, but saw that some other trip reports went to both just in case.
Once we got back to the saddle, the rest of the route was straight forward. There was still a bit of navigating to do on the ridge to McNamee, but was C2+ at best. It was probably a little harder for us than in full summer conditions because we were navigating around some now. McNamee to Traver is C2.
Note: after leaving Traver, instead of following the standard track back down to the lake, we stayed further south to get back down to the road after Traver to avoid snow. There is some route finding if you do this to make sure you don't cliff yourself out. There was still a bit of snow that we descended down, so I'm not sure how this would navigate snow free.
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