We started snowshoeing a bit last winter - but the snowpack was so low it was actually hard to find places…. we had to go up to around 6000+ feet to find more than a couple of inches! In a normal year out here we unfortunately have to worry about avalanche danger and choose our trails wisely in the winter.

When it's not snowing we stay away from really technical rock climbing, but we've done a few trails that require a little bit of scrambling (you need to use your hands, but not ropes) Coming down, for me, is always harder than going up since I can't see the footholds. A lot of our hikes do include some ridge walking, but there's a limit to how narrow either of us is willing to tolerate and we don't go where there is a serious danger that a slip will send you down a cliff… Most of the time the scrambling is just to reach the very top of the peak and you can skip it without missing much anyway. Last weekend we didn't go to the summit because we would have had to cross a knife edge that neither of us liked the looks of. That last 2 tenths of a mile just wasn't worth it.