Mummy in Winter (NV)

pics by Harlan W. S.
March 19, 2009

Other Mummy Snow Hikes: [1] [2] [3]. Story of the backpackers is here.

	View SSE over Cockscomb Peak.	Charleston on way up NLT.
Top of the “Scree of Doom” slope, view toward Griffith.	Lee Peak.	Snow on way E to Mummy.
View to the last cliff band below summit.	It’s safer on the rock…	Finally, the last stretch of snow. I went to the 3^rd-class chute, rather than the 2^nd-class chute, because I trusted rock more than the slick snow.
Top of the chute.		Mysterious one-legged man. I found it very hard to balance on mud.
	Griffiith from Summit.
Griffith at L, to Lee at R.	Charleston from below summit.	Top of chute.
	I stick by the cliffs.	Ready to descend the scree. SPOT is the orange thingee.
Back toward summit.	You must Whippet.
By the Cave Spring, I came across 3 guys who wanted to spend the night on the NLT, and go over Charleston to the SLT. They were wearing tennis shoes, and one guy had all sorts of stuff dangling from his pack, including an old-style rectangular synthetic sleeping bag. They asked me if the loop would be a problem. I advised them not to go past Devil's Thumb. I said a lot of stuff, but mainly I was trying to get them to realize how much snow they might hit up high, and how slick it would be in the shadows.