12 miles of hiking • 3750' elevation gain •
Planning to go to Tanner Butte. Took the shortcut up the ridge west of the Tanner trail - pretty cool, kind of like Rudolph Spur. One shoe decided it needed to eviscerate my heel, so I was forced to take my knife and cut out part of the plastic heel cup, which only kind of helped. Hit snow around 3500 ft and put on snowshoes to avoid obnoxious sinkage. The tracks I was following veered off to Dublin Lake near the junction, and there was no sign of the trail under all the pine needles and meltout. I didn't feel like dicking around trying to find it, or use a compass bearing up to the road grade farther along, so since I'd wasted time trying to fix my shoe and it was later that I'd wanted, I just turned around and went back. The TB summit would have sucked anyway, as the sunny morning hazed over by afternoon. At least it got April's scheduled "lame" hike out of the way?
