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After our first sunrise and our first image of the trip, Matthew and I decided to spend the afternoon hiking to the top of Numa Pass. It had been a cold morning with scattered showers, and since we were still soaked, we knew setting out in our only dry clothes would be a bad idea. Instead, we hung out in the tent for a few hours, listening to The Hobbit audiobook (AKA napping) while waiting for our gear to dry a little more.
Later in the afternoon, we began our ascent. As we climbed into the larch meadows, we actually started to see pockets of sunshine illuminating the surrounding peaks, and our hopes of experiencing a sunlit larch meadow began to rise. That hope was dashed near the top of the pass. As we gained elevation, the rain shifted to graupel, or snow pellets. It was actually a welcome change from the rain, since we could brush it off before it soaked in, but it did bring back memories of hiking through a blizzard in the middle of the night on Mount Smutwood a couple of years earlier. Thankfully, the graupel didn’t seem too heavy, so we pushed on.
The top of the pass was beautiful, even though the cold wind cut straight through our clothes. We enjoyed a quick snack while watching the light dance across the peak opposite the valley. Suddenly, the mountain immediately to our left disappeared into a heavy dump of graupel. Visibility across the valley quickly diminished, and I snapped this image before our window to descend safely closed.
We raced down the trail to stay ahead of the storm. When we looked back, we saw the ridge where we had been standing just minutes earlier completely white, the mountainside covered in several inches of graupel in only about ten minutes. Fortunately, it soon became clear that we were only going to be clipped by the edge of the storm, so we were able to catch our breath halfway back to camp, where I captured a couple more images.
There’s nothing quite like experiencing dramatic conditions in the mountains. It certainly makes these trips interesting.
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