That left about 2 miles and 900 vertical to go so I found a convenient place to park the car and hoofed it along the road through intermittent patches of snow/ice to the top. I could have taken the PCT but since it was on the north side of the mountain I figured I'd need snow gear I don't have. Besides, the road was sheltered for the most part from the steady 20-30 mph winds - win!
One of several places my car wouldn't have made it through (too steep and solid ice)...
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Approaching the summit...
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Come to a complete stop...
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Ooh! Cowbell...
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Aliens have landed on Mt. Gleason...
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It even decorated the place with a little Christmas tree and snow.
For some reason the Sierra Club register is supposed to be on a slightly lower bump several hundred yards to the northwest of the real highpoint, but all I found was a geocache (someone signed in last fall and indicated they found a bunch of loose SC register pages lying all over the place and no register box)...
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Elmer Fudd was here to protect us all from signs...
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Grand views (Lukens, Condor, Condor Jr., Iron #2, and Santa Barbara Island way out there)...
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More pics.