Ice Age 2013: The Pacific Crest Trail

Maverick says: Once we finally got up to the ice sheet on Forester we were surprised to see a small path cut in the ice. Apparently our fellow hiker named Slim spent 5 hour chipping away at the ice the day before. Slim you are the man. Unfortunately it had partly melted and was refrozen overnight but it didn't take me too long to chip new footholds to make it safe again. I felt partly responsible to make sure the pass was safe considering there were some hikers right behind us and I had already made the statement, "I don't care how thick the ice sheet is. I'll spend all day hacking away if that's what it takes" Not to mention the fact that a lot of people told us we might not make it through and that it was dangerous, even the rangers and some mountaineers that usually are the first ones over the Sierras had said it was to early and the passes were impassable, but us and the group decided to go anyway. :)