25.5 miles of hiking • 6500' elevation gain • 1 night
Left midafternoon after work, on the trail at 5pm. Summit of Tanner at 8:30, some clouds made a bit of an early sunset but very nice out and it stayed light until near 11pm. Bivied out in the open below the summit in a nice cradle of beargrass. Up at 5am for the sunrise, leisurely breakfast, then back down the trail at 7am. Continued on to Tanner Spring (flowing nicely!), then a bit of off trail exploring, back up the trail and down to the Tanner Cutoff (first time!). Cutoff is very fun and not difficult to follow. Some nice streams at the bottom to dunk your head in. Then a long slog back down Road 777, a late leftover tamale lunch at the Tanner trailhead, and back at the car around 3pm. Zero snow en route to Tanner Butte, and only a few patches thereafter down near the spring and the junction with the Eagle-Tanner trail.
Jen
June 6, 2013
Wow beautiful pictures.
What is that weaselly thing? Marten, stoat, ...weasel? Looks freshly dead, perhaps you interrupted someone's dinner.