Cristina..thats a week away and I'm not sure if you will need shoeshoes I don't know, I'm sure kurt will let us know, that was my first time on snowshoes I rented them from sports chalet for $10.87 for the day.
If you go to this web site, go to trip reports click onto "Another baldy TR" by Hamik, your see who dug the through hole. I believe someone said up there at the hut they wanted to see how deep the snow was,that was Saturday, they never hit bottom ...
check out skier in mid air.... awesome pictures
mark
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