Climbing After Dark part2

We accelerated towards the first snow bank, only to find out that this wasn’t a snow bank at all. The snow wasn’t light and fluffy it was packed and icy. Making the perfect ramp, we must have gotten at least a foot and a half off the ground. It was insane, and with another snow bank quickly approaching we were looking at doing it again. Only this time Evan slammed on the brakes, and we slid into the snowbank. Now we were high centered on a snow bank, all I could think was bummer. A lot of digging and a few minutes later we had the Subaru moving again. Charging out of the parking lot and up the steep hill, all I could think was we are never goanna make it. Of course we didn’t, and ended up sliding down the huge hill backwards. I’m not goanna lie that part was kind of freaky.

Once we turned around and found the buried road again, we were on our way. Looking around we were the only car on the road. That was super reassuring knowing we made the good choice to travel during this storm, when everyone else stayed inside. Soon we crossed the bridge into Hancock and not long after that we started getting passed by snowmobilers. Which I might add would be a preferred method of travel up there. We came into the small town of linden which is known for the Hungarian Falls. This was the place that we originally intended to climb. The road leading to the trail head was all up hill and covered in snow. We thought we should try to make it up the hill. So Evan gunned it and about half way up the hill we buried the Subaru. What we didn’t know was that we were driving on a few feet of snow already, and gunning it just broke the layers of snow underneath the car. Sitting in the Subaru with snow up to our windows, made it impossible to open the doors. So we had to dukes of hazard it, we climbed out the windows and left the Subaru buried in the snow.

I strapped on my snow shoes and we started the long hike to the falls. On our way we discovered a bridge that perfectly covered its own set of falls. Which was perfect because we could use the bridge as an anchor point. This would mean that we could top rope the water fall, making the climb much safer. Keep in mind that we are climbing in the dark during a snow storm, so safety is huge. Bryan and Evan rappelled down the frozen waterfall, while I took the indirect route down the side. I used my snowshoes as skis and started to ski down the steep hill. Little did I know that I was headed towards a small cliff. The snow was so deep that I created a small avalanche and couldn’t stop myself as I slid towards the small cliff….tune in next week to read the conclusion of this adventure.