Weekend Warrior - 2-3 Day Climbing Trips in the Sierras
December 27th, 2007
I’m going to start a new feature here at GoBlog, the GOWeekend Warrior Trip Planner. Most don’t have unlimited time to go and climb, often
only a weekend or long weekend is available to cram as much into as possible. While I can climb El Cap in two days, even I will admit it’s hard to get there, climb, descend, get hammered, and then drive back in a weekend. I’ve done the drive through the night trips, so that counts here. Here’s the first installment, a GOWeekend Warrior mountaineering trip in the Sierras, either East or West, the requirements are:
- Give drive times from SFO/RNO/LAX, as most west coasters would be leaving from such
- Friday night bivy - where is it? Trailhead, car, will you need to hike in some?
- Climbing, or at least scrambling to a summit of something
- Can you ski down?
- Time back to car after summit
- Closest alcohol source
Winter is much different than summer, so I’m running into problems for finding a quick weekend trip. Tioga pass is closed, the trailhead to Williamson is probably closed too, any suggestions would be appreciated.
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