There was a semi packed trench up to 11.4k or so. This trench may not "require" snowshoes, but please play nice and use them. Using microspikes and sinking 4"+ into the trench destroys the good work some poor lads did to lay that down. If everyone just uses the darn things or skis, then there would be a great trench. Instead, we are stuck with a sub par trench that's dug up with boots.
Anyways, I turned around at 11.4 as I was on skies and the trench turned a hard left straight up the slopes through waist deep snow. Poor fellows that put went up that way first... I went off that trench to start to establish a bit more of a proper angle trench and the snow started collapsing, whoomphing, etc. It is lower angle and the likelihood of an avalanche is extremely small but it was just too tedious of snow to start another trench up so I turned back here (my plan was only to go to treeline anyways).
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