Trinity Alps High Route 2011-Attempt Photo Gallery by Deems Burton at pbase.com

Trinity Alps High Route 2011-Attempt

2011 is a record snow year! I recently made a recon trip to Morris Mdws over Memorial Day weekend to check the snow conditions. Snow level is extreme! -- In fact the snow conditions are so extreme, I was unable to complete the full route as planned in eary July. The Mirror Lake Ledge held a huge crevasse or slab avalanche zone with no margin of safety, which ended the high route for me. I'll admit, even with crampons and ice axe, I don't have the skills to safely cross it. I visited Grizzly, Mirror, and Papoose Lakes, Jorstad Cabin, and Bob's Farm. I traded high risk snow conditions for high risk creek crossings, and enjoyed a week in the Trinity Alps.

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1937 Jorstad Cabin	1937 Jorstad Cabin	1937 Jorstad Cabin	1937 Jorstad Cabin interior
1937 Jorstad Cabin interior	1937 Jorstad Cabin interior	1937 Jorstad Cabin	Jorstad campsite
Papoose Lake	Sunset at Papoose	Evening Fire at Papoose Lake	Evening Fire at Papoose Lake
Papoose Lake's Landslide and Tsunami	Papoose in BW	Upper Rattlesnake creek crossing	Middle Fork crossing

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karen		13-Jul-2017 00:00
How do you think the snow pack this year compares with 2011? Panning a trip next week and wondering how realistic cross country travel will be. Thanks for any insight.

Davey-p		29-Sep-2015 06:22
what an awesome route! I am trying to rout a journey from Stuarts fork through emerald up and over suicide trail. Where was bear pass?

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