I have never had cause to imagine the other end of a temperature inversion before Friday. We headed to the trailhead for our overnight stay at Bruni's Snow Bowl Hut in the MTTA trail system skimtta.com. It was sub freezing when Pam, Sherrie, Lisa, Gary, Garry, Sue and I headed up with our heavy packs to the cabin for the night.
It is about 2.75 miles to the junction where you turn to Snow Bowl from the trailhead. By that time we had gained a decent chunk of elevation and we were in the sun for the most part. It was very obvious that the temperature was rising as we were which is the opposite of normal.
We reached the cabin in less than 3 hours including many stops along the way. By then the temperature was in the 45 range. After emptying all the ingredients from our packs for what would become a feast of pizza, salads and snacks we began mixing our pizza dough so it could rise.
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| We crossed Annelise's group on the way down so it was Fireball Time for her. |
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| Garry found a friend. |
Next to join us at the cabin were Terry and Zena. They were that last to arrive in the daylight. As dark settled in Doug, Suzanne and Phyllis arrived followed shortly by Rhonda, Gay, Lance and Brenda bringing our total to 16. Gene from MTTA also joined us so we were a dangerous force of 17 with way to much food, wine and Fireball.
A late night and morning of conversations ranging from the CFA exam to the Jabberwocky occupied us. The overnight temperature never dropped below 48 degrees and when the last of us left the cabin at 1 PM it was a whopping 55 degrees.
We made the descent in good time and were even able to assist a gent who had a flat time on his Ford F250 - why so many lug nuts Ford? It involved some digging and chopping and a bottle jack that barely cut the mustard, but all was well.
As we headed back home we drove into the bad end of the temperature inversion again complete with fog and cold and everything.
Be very well and more soon....
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