Catalina State Park to the ski area in March?

JimmyLyding · Post by **JimmyLyding** » Feb 05 2009 11:30 am

Anyone interested in going from Catalina State Park to the ski area in March? My knee's ready to rock and roll.

JimmyLyding · Post by **JimmyLyding** » Feb 27 2009 12:21 pm

My buddy is allegedly going up there today to ski. I'll post his report when I hear back

rally_toad · Post by **rally_toad** » Mar 01 2009 1:28 pm

Heard back from your friend yet? Planning a trip up there next weekend, and would like to know what to expect as we get to the higher elevations toward the ski area.

JimmyLyding · Post by **JimmyLyding** » Mar 01 2009 3:34 pm

He changed his mind and went to Sunrise. He said it was great.

Jeffshadows · Post by **Jeffshadows** » Mar 01 2009 3:39 pm

There's snow on the north-facing slopes in pockets above 7,000' as of this morning.

fricknaley · Post by **fricknaley** » Mar 01 2009 5:41 pm

couple days around 90 here this week oughtta take care of most of that.

sorry i missed the earlier stuff here. I did this 7h, 15min before but that's not gonna happen this time. It will take a while. Route finding is a pain in a couple sections here, though more eyes will be helpful. Let's plan on 9 hours to be safe?

keep in mind it's a little over 7100 feet up, so let's get on our treadmills/bikes/climbers and go nuts!

this one will be a blast!

JimmyLyding · Post by **JimmyLyding** » Mar 03 2009 6:48 pm

My buddy from Phoenix wanted to go until I told him it would be like climbing Squaw Peak 7 times in a row. I left out the part that it would be double the distance.
On another note does anyone have GPS besides rljamy?
There are 2 other people who plan on going who haven't registered: my roommate and my buddy John from Tucson

Jeffshadows · Post by **Jeffshadows** » Mar 03 2009 7:16 pm

GPS? Nick and I both have one...

BobP · Post by **BobP** » Mar 04 2009 7:28 am

JamesLyding wrote:My buddy from Phoenix wanted to go until I told him it would be like climbing Squaw Peak 7 times in a row. I left out the part that it would be double the distance.

BobP · Post by **BobP** » Mar 04 2009 7:58 am

I thought this was a shuttle hike.

Squaw x 7(round trip) = 16.8 miles and 8,260 in gain. I figured this trip was about 14-15 with around 6k gain. I quess it depends on the route chosen up or over and up. ;). I know you meant squaw one way 7 times.

JimmyLyding · Post by **JimmyLyding** » Mar 04 2009 11:33 am

Thank God we're not going back down. That would be worse than going up for me!

Jeffshadows · Post by **Jeffshadows** » Mar 04 2009 11:40 am

I wouldn't even try unless I had camped overnight. It would be senseless torture...

fricknaley · Post by **fricknaley** » Mar 04 2009 12:16 pm

Going down this would SUCK, especially lower Sutherland which is very rocky. My feet were just gored senseless coming down this part on my big 50 year-Baby Jebus Loop. I can't imaging how much worse it would be after coming all the way down lemmon. I'd come down Romero if I had to.

BobP · Post by **BobP** » Mar 04 2009 1:05 pm

I didn't know there were triplogs and a route on this until about 5 minutes ago. Are we taking the route posted by davis2001r6?

JimmyLyding · Post by **JimmyLyding** » Mar 04 2009 1:29 pm

I like davis' route. It's worth it to add a bit of distance to go through the Wilderness of Rocks

Jeffshadows · Post by **Jeffshadows** » Mar 04 2009 1:55 pm

UMMMM...I posted that route. It was the first one I ever posted, here

; no, we're going the way Nick went a few years back...involving Sutherland.

Jeffshadows · Post by **Jeffshadows** » Mar 04 2009 1:59 pm

Actually, wait a minute. This is James' trip; if you want to go the way I went, I'm down. Wilderness makes an awesome lunch spot.

BobP · Post by **BobP** » Mar 04 2009 2:10 pm

I was talking about the GPS route.

Posted in your route description.

fricknaley · Post by **fricknaley** » Mar 04 2009 2:14 pm

I'm cool for either way too.

JimmyLyding · Post by **JimmyLyding** » Mar 04 2009 2:17 pm

It's 6 in one hand, half-a-dozen in the other as far as I'm concerned. Sutherland looks to be a bit shorter, correct?

fricknaley · Post by **fricknaley** » Mar 04 2009 2:39 pm

shorter, steeper and much worse route finding. that is something to bear in mind.

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