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Got off work wed. and headed to meet my buddies in Georgetown. Set out up the pass to find delays due to construction. Hurriedly found a campsite before dusk and much rain. We ate and then tried to sleep through a fairly awesome storm. We crashed for a few hours before heading out for a sunrise summit @ 5:40 that particular morning.
We hit the trail at 3 only to find a river with a wet log crossing.
1st glimpse of Evans
Timing was pretty much perfect, any earlier and we would have been that much colder, any later and we would have just missed it
summit shock
No one wanted to get Evans with me so we compromised and I would head towards the car after getting across the ridge and forget about Evans
On the ridge
Looking back towards Bierstadt
The homestretch up sawtooth, this is what freaked my buddies out, I tried to explain it looked worse than it is but they weren't havin it.
Drop
I made a bee line for the drainage and followed it down
Log crossing out
The whole enchilada
Oh yea the willows...
well they were still wet from all the rain, and it was borderline swamp in areas, I was soaked waist down.
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