2011-11-05 40 -111

Sat 5 Nov 2011 in 40,-111: 40.7960976, -111.8934499 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Near the top of Ensign Peak. Steep terrain, but a road goes pretty close to it.

Participants

• Rhonda

Plans

There's snow forecast for Saturday, but if it's not too dangerous I'm going to at least try for it. And if the terrain is too steep then I'll go hike in Ensign Peak Park. Actually I'll probably do that anyway, since I'm there.

It's currently (8:45AM) snowing. Sunset is shortly after 6PM so I'll want to be off the mountain well before then, but as it's such a short hike a 4PM meetup time should still work just fine. If the snow stops by early afternoon I might go for it. If my rental car can't make it up the snow-covered hill safely, I'll turn back. Google claims just under an hour's walk from the bottom of the hill but I don't think their algorithm takes terrain into account... plus if I can't drive safely up the hill I wouldn't trust other people not to slide off the road and hit me if I'm walking. (How slippery is the snow around here? The ski resorts claim fluffy powder.)

As of 12:30 the snow has stopped and the sun is out. Unless the weather gets bad again, I'll probably head there with target arrival shortly before 4PM.