Howells Outdoors
Adventure is my middle name...actually it's Keith.
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No joke, but on April 1st 2015 I got to visit southern Utah’s mountaineering playground the Tushar Mountains.
A friend invited me to head into the Tushar Mountains. i knew of the area, but had only been to Eagle Point Ski Resort. I found it to be an amazing place to practice and play around with alpine environments.
We took off from the Eagle Point Ski Resort to hit Delano Peak, the highest point, and Mt. Holly. The hiking was pretty easy, the snow was almost all melted along the way. We only had to get in snow if we chose too…and we did.
Some of our purpose to this trip was to learn more about mountaineering techniques. We brought ropes and harness to set up rope teams, and we brought the ice axes to glissade.
I was also testing out the new 5.10 Gore-Tex Camp Four boots.
The hike up to Delano from Eagle Point is around 4 miles if you do the slight detour to Mt. Holly. There’s about a 2,500 ft. elevation gain.
I fell in love with the Tushars. What an awesome place to visit and hike. The backcountry skiing opportunities are great. The mountaineering, the winter skills, etc. are just fantastic.
I love the area.
We spent some time learning some mountaineering techniques, like I mentioned. The Tushars are a great classroom for this. We found a hill to try some glissading on and ascending the ice fields.
On our way back down we chose a different route…and it ended up being a snow field, a soft snow field with the snow being about 2 to 4 feet deep in places. The three others did pretty good at not breaking through the top layer of snow, but me, being a larger man, fell through the snow and was post-holing (each step I went all the way under the snow) for about a mile to the finish line.
Oh well. I still loved the trip.
Here’s the photos:
Featured image for home page:
No joke, but on April 1st 2015 I got to visit southern Utah’s mountaineering playground the Tushar Mountains.
A friend invited me to head into the Tushar Mountains. i knew of the area, but had only been to Eagle Point Ski Resort. I found it to be an amazing place to practice and play around with alpine environments.
We took off from the Eagle Point Ski Resort to hit Delano Peak, the highest point, and Mt. Holly. The hiking was pretty easy, the snow was almost all melted along the way. We only had to get in snow if we chose too…and we did.
Some of our purpose to this trip was to learn more about mountaineering techniques. We brought ropes and harness to set up rope teams, and we brought the ice axes to glissade.
I was also testing out the new 5.10 Gore-Tex Camp Four boots.
The hike up to Delano from Eagle Point is around 4 miles if you do the slight detour to Mt. Holly. There’s about a 2,500 ft. elevation gain.
I fell in love with the Tushars. What an awesome place to visit and hike. The backcountry skiing opportunities are great. The mountaineering, the winter skills, etc. are just fantastic.
I love the area.
We spent some time learning some mountaineering techniques, like I mentioned. The Tushars are a great classroom for this. We found a hill to try some glissading on and ascending the ice fields.
On our way back down we chose a different route…and it ended up being a snow field, a soft snow field with the snow being about 2 to 4 feet deep in places. The three others did pretty good at not breaking through the top layer of snow, but me, being a larger man, fell through the snow and was post-holing (each step I went all the way under the snow) for about a mile to the finish line.
Oh well. I still loved the trip.
Here’s the photos:
Featured image for home page:
