11.5 miles of hiking • 5000' elevation gain •
Starvation>Defiance. Crazy frost spikes in the trees on Starvation around 2000ft. Partial snow on the trail when the ridge dead ends into the headwall. Warren Lake frozen solid. Continuous snow from there to the top. The trail is pretty well beaten in, though we did follow a dead end path and end up getting a little lost on the talus field and improvising up to the road. Some snow on the Defiance trail on the way down, a thin layer around 2000 ft or so, long after the real snow from the summit had disappeared. Intricate ice formations on the waterfalls on the way back to the car.
Chris
December 10, 2011
Awesome spikes!