[pct-l] Parcher's Resort over Bishop Pass

[Joanne Lennox]

Jeff - have you actually been through the route that you are recommending?

As I remember there are Three Passes to go over between the PCT in Palasades 
basin and Dusy Basin below Bishop Pass - all of it cross country, unmarked, 
and definitely requiring some route finding skill and an ice ax.  To get to 
South lake on this route you have to go accross 4 passes - Bishop Pass is 
the most northernly and is on a trail ( but it was under snow even in august 
one year ). Knapsack pass is the easiest of the 3 cross country passes, and 
is rated as a class1, the other two  passes are higher, more difficult: 
Potluck pass is class 2 and Cirque Pass is class 3.  This last pass is quite 
steep near the bottom and may not be so easy to find.  Having done this 
route twice alone, I would be wary about recommending it to anybody but 
somebody that has climbed by themselves and has a proven record doing cross 
country routes by themselves.  In early season when one would be on snow 
above 11,000 feet most of the time, I would give it a pass ( even if I have 
done it twice).

Still, It might come in handly sometimes and always good to know in an 
emergency.  Thanks for the information about Parchers.

Goforth
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