Beautiful and windy today on Mount Buckskin. Parked at the kite lake road closure (where plowing ends) @ Paris Mill last night. ~ 2.5mi from Alma turnoff.
Tried to take a shortcut this morning and got cliffed out. Typical me. Too dangerous with loaded snow in the in-between gullies, too. Headed south. Lost an hour and a half but it was really cool looking at plants and birds and rocks and things.
Broke trail until about 11'500 when I found another set of snowshoe tracks. Did not need snowshoes above tree-line. Scoured terrain, and a face full of wind (~20mph from North) until about 13,300 when I hit the high ridge and then some gusts from the west hit 40-50. Descended more or less the standard NE ridge route. Little snow on it's edge ridge and wind swept as well. Did not see another human all day.
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