Climbing: Alpine 9:30:00 [5] 8.0 mi (1:11:15 / mi) +4000ft 48:21 / mi
shoes: Guides
Lone Pine Peak - Winter Route
Turned around just below the notch due because there wasn't much ice in the chimney and I wasn't comfortable soloing M5 above a 2000 ft drop. No self belay with a twin rope and one screw.
Really fun climb even though I didn't reach the summit. Lots of easy mixed climbing, steep snow in the gullies, and awesome squeeze chimneys.
The scariest thing was a couple hundred feet of verglassed slabs with water running underneath. Soaked my gloves because I forgot the shells, and then my wet gloves kept freezing to my tools. Then it turned epic. I forgot my headlamp and ended up downclimbing 50 degree snow and ice with my cell phone between my teeth for light.