Lighting would be best in early morning light.
Ice Caves on Barrett Spur?
Ice Caves on Barrett Spur?
Just an FYI post because I haven't seen them mentioned here before. A couple weeks ago I spotted some off-trail ice caves on the E side of Barrett Spur. The photos are from the Vista Ridge Timberline Trail, eastward after Dollar Lake. The first photo is 5x zoom from near the switchback on VRT TT. The second is a 1-to-1 crop of the first.
Lighting would be best in early morning light.
Lighting would be best in early morning light.
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Re: Ice Caves spotted on Barrett Spur from Vista Ridge Trail
Huh? The Vista Ridge Trail ends at the Timberline Trail and doesn't go to Dollar Lake.
Did you mean from the Timberline Trail descending into Elk Cove?
Did you mean from the Timberline Trail descending into Elk Cove?
Re: Ice Caves on Barrett Spur?
Yep, my bad. And now I'm not so certain they're visible from the hairpin turn itself, probably on the run up to it.
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Re: Ice Caves on Barrett Spur?
Re: Ice Caves on Barrett Spur?
yeah. Actually if you were to extend southward the downtrail segment of the hairpin, the caves would fall right on it ... which is to say that the photo was taking looking directly uptrail ... IIRC. In fact, they are nearly colinear with the tread, if you know what that means. That ought to allow guesstimating their elevation.
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Re: Ice Caves on Barrett Spur?
Right here, I believe:
...at the head of the boot path that follows Cove Creek upstream toward the base of Barrett Spur.
Tom
...at the head of the boot path that follows Cove Creek upstream toward the base of Barrett Spur.
Tom
Re: Ice Caves on Barrett Spur?
So Adam, did you make it up there?
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Re: Ice Caves on Barrett Spur?
Not in this weather! That's a possible exploration for NEXT fall.mcds wrote:So Adam, did you make it up there?
Re: Ice Caves on Barrett Spur?
It's melting fast though! OK. Anyway, the last bit of beta I know to offer is that the talus slope below the caves looked really steep, from a distance, iirc. Wait, now I'm tempted to go for a look.