The original plan was to do the 3 peak challenge starting with baldy (e.g. in 9000m challenge style). However the night before, it had stormed, which meant there would be fresh snow. we decided to instead play by ear and just go hit as many peaks as we could in san bernadino (along the 9 peaks rim). Met up with grinder, and went to pick up erin and jenn along the way.
We got a lateish start (pushed it because snow, didn't want to deal with ice on roads) and were at the mill creek ranger station by 7, there was a crowd in line at the ranger station so we grabbed the available walk up permit (for forsee creek).
As we started our hike, it was pretty nice, there was definitely a fresh coat of snow all the way down to about 6k. About 30 minutes into our hike we could see a nice white covering on everything. about 90 minutes into the hike (we were going at jenn's pace which was quite fast). we got to a section where there was pretty good coverage (2+ inches) and lost the trail. After some wandering around we were able to rejoin the trail (when in doubt, go up). we eventually hit anderson peak (or maybe it was shields, not 100% sure). where we took a break, i think taking the break was nice, but it also killed our momentum, as we all got REALLY REALLY cold during the break.
due to this, we decided to turn around instead of hitting more peaks along the rim. we made it back to the car with no major difficulties. It was cool to see just how much it had changed in the time that we were hiking, a lot of the snow cover from the morning had melted out and it was like a completely different (much wetter) hike on the way out.
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