Dirty Harry's Peak — Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021

Went to Dirty Harry’s today knowing the weather was not the best. Was thinking of only doing the balcony, but then decided what the hell, I’ll head up to the peak. Other than being wet and muddy, as expected, the trail was in very good condition. A little above 3000ft snow began intermittently and by 3600-3800 the trail was completely snow covered for the remainder of the way to the peak, up to maybe 3-6”. Even snow covered though, it was still pretty easy to follow until the last 100-200 vertical feet. This is where I some how lost the trail entirely. I had the trail mapped on my phone using multiple GPS apps and proceeded to bushwhack until I got to what I think was the top. On the way down I did find the actual trail again, it looks like at 4300ish ft a tree came down into the trail that was hard to pass and I went around thus loosing the trail. Had I not had a GPS or the foot steps in the fresh snow, might have been bad. So be careful up near the top. Lesson to hike with a GPS with the map of the trail you are on.

Other than that an overall enjoyable time with the weather keeping the crowd very low. Just very wet.