March 09, 2024 7AM at Tibble Fork parking area. 14 degrees. Tony, Ralph, Karl, Brandon and myself. 4 other people started out with us, we waited over 10 mins at the Holman cabin flat, 45min into the hike and did not see them.
Kept the micro spikes on for another hour going up the gullies as the snow was crusted over. As we stared breaking through the crust, the snow shoes where put on.
The last part of the climb is the steepest. I was probably 15mins behind to summit. No winds, temp guessing around 30 degrees. Returning back looped around going down a different gully where the side were every steep and the gully had mini crevasses within.
Legs were tired. As least this year I summitted. Prior years was not able to summit.
