Looking across the frozen Mirror Lake at Roaring Ridge from the climb up Tinkham Peak
Roaring Ridge (4,865ft), Tinkham Peak (5,398ft), Abiel Peak (5,365ft)
June 12, 2020
~15 miles
It was a rainy day so I set out to hike some peaks below treeline. I drove the rough road up to Windy Pass and started southbound on the PCT late morning. After a few miles the trail was covered in very deep snow. I made it to the Cold Creek trail intersection then scrambled up to Roaring Ridge, which had an ammo-can register. There was only about one sign-in per year since 1994. I then bushwhacked down to mirror lake, which was still frozen over, and scrambled/bushwhacked/snow climbed up the southeast ridge to Tinkham Peak.
From there I followed a climbers trail mixed with snow up to South Silver Peak and over to Abiel, before glissading back to the PCT and hiking back to the car.
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