Green

From the dirt pullout on Baseline, road up to Gregory TH, Amph, Saddle Rock, Greenman, Green; down the same.

Started at 4:32 pm. After Friday's big storm, Jeff V wanted to get up and pack the trails with snowshoes. Turns out plenty of other folks had been up the mountain on snowshoes earlier in the day, so they weren't really necessary. But this was the first time I'd ever used snowshoes on Green, so I wore them all the way up and down. They probably helped a little with traction, actually.

Worked pretty hard on the ascent until the talus section. I had a bit of a deadline, and I didn't want Jeff to catch me too quickly as I figured I'd slow him down since I hadn't been up Green in over 5 weeks (!). At the talus section, I ran into a skier descending. Stopped to chat and discovered it was Austin Porzak, who has skied many of the 14ers. Jeff caught up as we were chatting. As Jeff and I continued up, I think I slowed down as we chatted non-stop. Jogging down with the snowshoes was actually kind of fun, although it went pretty slow as we descended in the dark.

0:00 - dirt pullout
3:44 - Gregory TH (after putting snowshoes on)
13:58 - Amph/Saddle Rock
34:36 - Saddle Rock/Greenman
1:09:15 - Green summit
1:13:17 - started down
1:43:49 - Gregory TH
1:46:50 - dirt pullout

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