Hats off to the rescue team and happy to hear nobody was hurt.
DanieIL...so the forest, in between the bridge and log creek crossing, was the hard part to navigate? did Ellingwood ridge in summer conditions and agree, this forest is a tricky one to navigate.
Hikers missing on La Plata Peak
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Re: Hikers missing on La Plata Peak
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.
René Daumal
René Daumal
Re: Hikers missing on La Plata Peak
From what I recall, after the last bridge, the trench became just a few snowshoe tracks and started turning right too early. As a result, we were going up the ridge to the west of the valley the standard trail follows up to treeline. We had to traverse over the ridge and down into the valley, crossing a ravine (the stream) before we were back on track. We broke trail on the descent to avoid our bad ascent line. We should have busted out the GPS earlier - you're correct, it is quite confusing and I can see how people could get lost there during snow season.khuff6ft6 wrote:Hats off to the rescue team and happy to hear nobody was hurt.
DanieIL...so the forest, in between the bridge and log creek crossing, was the hard part to navigate? did Ellingwood ridge in summer conditions and agree, this forest is a tricky one to navigate.
