Go early for a great hike on Quandary. We started hiking on standard route East Ridge at 4:40 am and did not post hole AT ALL on the way up (and fell through once or twice on the way down). Snow/ice was frozen solid and we cruised on top of it the whole time. Hardly any snow in the trees. Took the summer route to the left and it was fine, ended up taking the winter route down via glissading. Lots of snow from treeline up, but, we were fine - all the late starters were slushing through ice mush while we were cruising down between 830-900. I judged them. We summited at 7:07. Absolutely beautiful conditions to peak today. Glissading down was so much fun - very glad I had the GoPro!
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