We hiked up Valley Way Trail and summited Mt. Madison Saturday Morning. It is very much still winter up there, the trail had several feet of hard snowpack plus a softer foot or two of snow from the recent storm. This was one of those trips where I was hiking with people who were in much better shape than me and was kind of out of my league, but they were patient and understood that I wasn't used hiking up a mountain with snowshoes while wearing 55lb pack.
Temperatures were in the twenties most of the first day and we had a good bit of sunshine early on. We summited just as the clouds were moving in and had just enough time before we lost visibility on the summit to hike back down to Madison Valley campsite which is 1200 feet lower and below treeline.
It started to snow around 6:00PM and the temperatures dropped overnight, we woke up to our thermometers reading -11 degrees (f), so we broke camp as fast as possible and hiked back to the trailhead. All in all it was a good weekend.
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Temperatures were in the twenties most of the first day and we had a good bit of sunshine early on. We summited just as the clouds were moving in and had just enough time before we lost visibility on the summit to hike back down to Madison Valley campsite which is 1200 feet lower and below treeline.
It started to snow around 6:00PM and the temperatures dropped overnight, we woke up to our thermometers reading -11 degrees (f), so we broke camp as fast as possible and hiked back to the trailhead. All in all it was a good weekend.
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