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I had hiked Mt. Rose earlier in the year, and had been looking for the opportunity to come back and try the route in the winter.
I had filled up my camelback bladder before leaving, but accidentally set it down on the bite valve and it drained while I was driving to the trailhead. I figured that the recent warm weather would generate some snowmelt somewhere along the trail, but it turned out to be a very dry day...
A summer variant of this route can be found
here.
Mt. Rose from the Starbucks parking lot in the morning
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Trailhead along i395 just over the hill from the ski resort. Hit the trail just as the sun was rising.
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This trailhead sign is around 6 feet tall, so there was about 5 feet of snow on the ground.
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The early part of the trail followed the road and had a nice view of Lake Tahoe
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Another shot of northern Lake Tahoe from a little further up the trail.
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The non-wilderness portion of the trail had been well traveled by snowmobiles and had a well consolodated surface that didn't require donning snowshoes
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Yup, a slow snowshoer on the trail.
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Small field below Relay Ridge that has a pond in the summer. Looks like some skiiers had decended from the ridge.
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The right turn into the Rose Wilderness granted a first view of the peak. No snomobile tracks after this point, but there were signs of several skiier and snowshoers since last snowfall.
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