2023-10-02, 09:31 PM
(2023-10-02, 01:57 PM)Brice Wrote: I climbed Sphinx mountain the day before. It was really nice.
Oh, excellent, glad you got up the Sphinx. Too bad about the wind. I had a day like that in Washington last week, I could barely walk a semi straight line. The day I went up Sphinx we relaxed and hung out on the summit for half an hour. And it figures that you'd try to bag the Helmet too! For me, doing Sphinx and out before dark even in July was a worthy accomplishment. I told my much younger companions that they should leave me behind if I lagged too much on the way up as it may have been beyond my ability, so I was quite happy to slog up that last steep slope and make it.
A nice thing about having summitted Sphinx is that you see that mountain from all sorts of other ranges, miles away.
Anyway, I'm glad you got to spend time in some country I really love. Did you go anywhere in the Tobacco Roots? I was up Hollowtop once but many of the peaks I'd like to visit are a bit hard to access without pretty good clearance.
For everyone else's info, this is an area in Montana that is around Bozeman (a nice liberal college town) and Big Sky (a stupid ski resort development); the Gallatin range runs from northern Yellowstone all the way up to Bozeman. It is also grizzly country, which makes me quite nervous, but does not keep me away.