Alternative Medicine: A dose of snowshoes and summit brews

I caught the dreaded man cold on Friday... but rather than whine and moan about it, I tried out some alternate therapy: a huge dose of fresh mountain air, and summit beer. I can now definitively tell you that this is NOT a cure. In fact, it probably made things worse. But regardless, what an amazingly more productive way to spend a Saturday than to be sick and in bed. Jas and I snowshoed up Commonwealth Ridge on a perfectly calm, warm, and sunny day, gaining over 700m of elevation to a summit ridge that looked like you were high up in the Swiss Alps.

We got back into the city mid afternoon, and went for some beers at Ol' Beautiful Brewing, where we would meet two dudes sitting at the bar. They asked us what we'd been up to for the day, and we showed them some photos from the peak. One guy goes, "Wow. You climbed a mountain today? I fell off a sidewalk on the way here." LOL. #accomplishments




The first part of the trek in was kind of a boring slog up thigh deep snow. Thankfully, we had snowshoes.


It was a steep trudge up the ridge.


We would ditch the snowshoes on the ridge, and changed over to spikes as the terrain got more technical.


















Summit Brews: Rad Seeker IPA; District Brewing Session IPA.


If you look closely, you can see a dude on the South Summit in the middle.






Jas claims to have been taking a photo of the mountains, but I suspect it was a selfie.


Beers from Ol' Beautiful.


Photo of me on the summit ridge, by Jas.