A quick look at the sky told me beads was right and doing the fossil route would be a wet nasty experience. The shortcut we took was a bit different than the one Ley suggested. He had us gig straight up a drainage that was very steep. Instead we went up the drainage right next to it that was a nice gentle climb. It cost us a half mile but saved us a lot of pain. A few miles later we took another shortcut that saved us a couple more miles so we had done 12 miles by lunch while only hiking 7.
It was a good thing we did cause the weather turned nasty. As we were climbing a 1000 ft. hill the weather hit us. Hail, freezing rain, cold wind then a steady heavy cold rain. It wasn't that bad since it hit us as we were going up, so we had extra body heat and we were in the mountains rain shadow on the other side. The rain shadow was neat every direction I looked was a big nasty storm, except the little valley we were in.
We made such good time with our short cuts and freezing climb that we decided to push up and over another mountain. The views were amazing of course but the thing that got me the most was the echo. It was 6 echoes, yes 6. I really want to come back with an alp horn.
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