Iceaxe's FREE guide service

For anyone come visiting California and willing to take my free guide service, this is the first mountain we'll go for warm up. It's about 4000m. Good view and non technical. Relatively short distance too: only about 5 km hike one way and 1000m elevation gain from the parking lot. However, if you do want to be technical, look at the couloir (snow gully) on the left of the peak (which didn't go all the way to the top). It's about 40 to 50 degree nice hard snow during early spring (mountain axe and crampon suffice, no need for protection). Solid water ice near the end of summer.
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<br>My service is completely free but also no guaranty of safety or satisfaction. You might also find the guide is moving slower and get lost more often than you do. (I am getting too old for this stuff). Just want to make friends.  -iceaxe
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kookoo

俺也作过这样的向导，最后队员们都在前头等俺……<br><br>[blue]这样的景象必是光阴轮回前那一刹的重演，只是依稀换了人间。
<br>一凝眸，又是百年。[/blue]

jjyfoot

萤火虫

in California. Isn't the song goes 'it never rains in California'? so I thought there's no snow in the California sun shine
<br>It IS beautyful~~<br><br>征签名档~~~

It rains quite a bit in winter. Along the coast it never snows and trees and grass are greener in winter. But on the high mountains it snows a lot. Ski season already started and I will be hitting the slopes very soon. Even during summer there are snow on the highest sierra mountains and there are many permanent glaciers and glacier lakes scattered around.