Mt. Gleason: 01-11-2009

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HikeUp
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Attempted to drive up to Mt. Gleason with plans to walk up to the summit followed by a hike out and back to Iron Mt. #2. Well, despite the road from Mill Creek Summit to Gleason being a mostly south facing road, I ran into some snow and ice that my car couldn't handle at the 7.5 mile mark.

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.
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More cowbell!!!! :P
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Post by asabat »

wrote:More cowbell!!!! :P
With all that ice? Could knock someone over. Then again, don't fear the reaper.
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Post by AW~ »

neat..didnt know Condor Jr was visible from Gleason..I'll be making my next attempt at that soon...wont be any pictures though :(
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