Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Lemah Mt. (Sept. 2005)
Ahhh...the Central Cascades. I was fortunate enough to take two great companions into a part of my backyard I had yet to visit...the Lemahs. Seeing this area only on snow, I was excited to visit this piece of wilderness in the dry season. The perfect weather and seeing no other people didn't hurt the experience.
We definitely made the most of the bushwacking by following Smoot's guide and staying climber's left of Lemah
Creek (bass ackwards). The meadow was beautiful and had AV hollowing bear calls. From there, we advanced the bushwacking skills and found our bivy site under the Lemahs.Keeping to the mission of at least getting up the main summit, we bailed on any summit climb that first day, and instead waited until morning. Watching the big dipper rotate north over the fingers, we also experienced an incredible warming of over 10 degrees between 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. Yes, Sunday was brilliant.
Sunday went great, but even with 3 outgoing, in-shape explorers, the descent via Gold Creek was intelligently left for another day.
