Fwd: Re: [pct-l] Mt. Shasta

[pfreiman at popmail.ucsd.edu (Paul Freiman/Vicki Cavataio)]

I suggest creating your own switchbacks.  Keep your leg speed going, 
otherwise if you try to go straight up you will take two steps up and 
then rest for 30 seconds.  Weave back and forth and you don't have to 
stop.


>
>We took the Avalanche Gulch route, which wasn't all that tough considering
>the shape we were in by the time we got there.  I think it's about 
>7000 feet in
>six miles from the parking area.  There are no switchbacks or trail to speak
>of right before and after Helen Lake it's mostly a scramble over, 
>scree, talus,
>sun cups and snow.