OUR PURPOSE: WHY FRIENDS OF GRANITE PEAK
SOLITUDE, ADVENTURE, NATURAL
BEAUTY:
The Wilderness Experience
Counter
GRANITE PEAK: A Mountain
With Social Significance
Detailed East
Ridge Route
Pics
click here
Last Year's Photo Albums:  
August 10-12, 2007 (Snowbank Mountain)
click here  
July 22, 2007 click here
July 8, 2007  click here
July 1, 2007  click here
Vince Poore's excellent July 3, 2007 Album click here
GPS COORDINATES FOR
FROZE TO DEATH PLATEAU
VIA MYSTIC LAKE
TRAILHEAD
click here
LAST YEAR'S GRANITE PEAK
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC TOUR
Pete Shelley and Patrick Brunsvold of The Base Camp
in Billings graciously shared their flyby photographs of
Granite Peak from July 8, 2007. For a photographic tour
click here.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
POINT FORECAST FOR
GRANITE PEAK: The NWS
website allows you to enter the
gps coordinates for any location
and receive a point forecast for
that specific location. This is for
the
summit of Granite Peak. click
here for the forecast.
UNDERSTANDING
HIGH ALTITUDE
SICKNESS: AMS,
HAPE AND HACE:
Click Here.
FRIENDS OF GRANITE PEAK
Independence Day will still
find lots of snow in the
high country. A recent trip
up the Mystic Lake side of
the Froze To Death Plateau
found the trail clear of
snow up to about 9,000
feet. Then as the trail
switchbacks back and
forth across the ascending
ridges, one begins to run
into deep drifts in the
shelter of the trees and on
slopes angled away from
the sun.
MOUNTAIN GOATS FIND LOTS OF SNOW
REMAINS ON FROZE TO DEATH PLATEAU
1 of 5 downed trees
across the trail
below 9,000'
Big drifts at 9,800 feet
near FTD crest.
Be careful as some fall
steeply away.
PHOTOS FROM JUNE 29, 2008
On the FTD there's
lots of water
On the big drifts hardened by winter's gale
force winds, you'll stay on top. On the
smaller drifts and snow fields, you might
find yourself post-holing. So avoid the
latter if at all possible.