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The winter months find me in Park City, UT. It is a winter-sports destination for the Rocky Mountain west, and they say the summers are nice too. I've never been there in the sumer, but here's what we do in the winter.
Wake up is 2am. The drive is 45 minutes to the trailhead, setting at an elevation above 6000'. We begin in the dark towards our objective, the S summit of Timp. It is a long climb, varying from skis with climbing skins, to the addition of ski crampons, ultimately to boot crampons and axes. Watching the sun come up:
This is part of a 500m+ climb, all around 40* pitch. Boot-packing by this point:
After that climb, we reached the vast Timp Basin:
After another punishing ascent, we reached the summit ridge, above 11,000. Moving south the views were superb:
Some exposure here too:
We skied down a corn surface, basically frozen snow that is rapidly heated into a surface much like a field of ball-bearings:
Timp is the 2nd highest peak in the Wasatch Range of the Rockies (11, 722') Our descent was a bit over 5000' and ended at Redford's Sundance resort. A look back up from the bottom, we started on the left high point:
In a month I'll be in Skye having some fun!!!
