7 miles of hiking • 2500' elevation gain •
3' of snow starting about where I turned around today at the 2800' level.
For some reason I decided not to at least attach my snow shoes to my day pack, I think it was because I read something about Civrot in his 5 fingers and didn't realize his report was almost a week old, so last weeks winter blast really piled it up on the Nesmith Point trail! Learned my lesson today, attach snow shoes to day pack. Met a few other guys that were heading up when I was going down and one guy said he thought I made it to the 3k' level at the really open area,maybe the saddle, haven't done Nesmith Point yet, but looking at MyTopo I think the super deep snow starts around 2600'. Also saw a couple of ladies and they had their snow shoes strapped on their packs!
Anyway there is still a nice snow depth going up that way in case anyone wanted to know... :)
EDIT - Oops, Civrots report was from Jan 29, over a month ago, silly me for not bringing snow shoes today knowing how much snow we have had these last few weeks...
