Denied Access - 2010!

Okay so JAKL tried to get up to the cabin on Saturday, June 12 for the second time this season. We were not only denied access, but we also got stuck in a drift due to being high centered which totally sucked! We were on a very lonely forest road and saw absolutely no living soul all day long. These are places were you don't wait for any one to come save you anyway, you just hunker down and get yerself out of the sticky situation you got yourself into. We actually had a good time. It was quite an adventure and it only took us aprox 2 hrs to get out after trying unsuccessfully to use our POS wench system. Ha ha. I guess we had to practice some how, huh?

We had two shovels, thank goodness. One flimsy snow shovel and a collapsible trench shovel that J had in his backpack. The trench digging shovel would not stay uncollapsed as we were digging out and gave us some war wounds. J got 2 chunks of flesh torn out around his knuckle areas while I sacrificed a meaty bit from that tender part between the thumb and forefinger!! Bled like a sieve & hurt like an SOB, but today looks nothing more than a glorified scrape.

Here are some picts of the day. The photos don't do justice though. The situation is worse looking in person. We made it to within 1.8 miles of the cabin after we dug out of the sticky situation, but it was too late in the day to hike into the cabin and stay. One thing that was on our side is that the weather was really nice and it wasn't raining/snowing up on the mountain during that time frame. It started raining as we made our way back down to I-80 though. Whew!

Definitely high centered -- damn it!

That stuff was packed way up in there!

Close up

This was the road 1.8 miles from our cabin. This was AFTER we dug our way out further down the mountain so we didn't want to chance going through. I know this only looks like a little snow on the road, but these were big wet drifts going up a steep mountain road. Oy.

The take-home message for this adventure is to come more prepared with proper tools that aren't POS's or start earlier in the day so that we can hike in and stay the night!!