Whereas the trip to Brewer, with the local Sierra Club Peaks Climbing Section, was clearly going to be a fairly hardcore trip, the trip to Trinity with the Stanford Outing Club wasn’t going to be (okay, so it was billed as strenuous, but I know how to do sums of distance and ascent). And the SOC is a much younger crowd than the Sierra club, which was nice.
The trip was another “out and back” trip; we walked in one day, camped in the same place for two nights, then walked out the next day. There were five of us on the trip. On the middle day, the trip organiser and his girlfriend went fishing. The other three of us tried to go up a mountian. From the camp at 1600m, we went up to about 2200m and had a good look at the mountain which was 2500m. It looked possible (probably), but probably a bit knarley and it was too late. We didn’t try. So we did a big traverse at 2200m, to see if we could get down to some lakes at the end of the valley (we couldn’t), came back and went back down to the camp. No rocks landed on my feet. Here was what it looked like…
Update: There are now a whole load of photos of this trip on my flickr page.
