Next weekend looks interesting...

Yeah it does, though a GPS is something that is very high on my list. It does scare me and I really wouldn't go up solo w/o one on a cloudy day.

Though I'm pretty new to it all and any advise is excellent (assuming I can actually listen)

This sobering article about the Camp Muir route highlights just how quickly the wide-open snowfield can turn deadly: www.backpacker.com/october_08_americas_1...a/destinations/12623

I'm posting it to enlighten rather than frighten.

I love the quote of Peter Whitaker in that article, "sometimes I just fall over in the parking lot" or something like that. It is definitely happened to me skiing just above paradise. Complete whiteout and I got vertigo. The slightest change in slope and I fell on my face. Whacky.

I'm sure that wouldn't happen skiing dirty nasty suncups though since they would provide plenty of relief even in the densest of fogs....unless you couldn't see your feet

Telemetry is showing max winds of 100 mph for the last couple readings. I hope the camera is holding on.