Sat Jul 7, 2018 @ 03:06

Staring at a Mountain you are due to climb all morning is not a great motivator for me. Parkview mountain looked intimidating from the moment we got it in sight. It also didn't help that Jonathan Let's comment was along the lines of "it's steep but mostly worth it". And several people commented on the shelter hut near the summit. Yet again, thunderstorms were due, so we were under a time crunch. We summited around 1pm, and could see the storm rolling in quickly. We legged it to get down off the ridgeline and into tree line, and managed to get down into treeline about 70 hours later (read: two) because the "trail" was just a cross country pile of cairns for the most part, and included several surprise climbs. We finally got to the next water source (did I mention this Mountain was also completely dry?), But only after we had been rained and hailed on. Luckily, the sun came back out as we got to camp, so we could dry ourselves out before bed time.