can you explain this Gully to me I can picture I've never skipped the ledges before so I am trying to picture what you talking about
any pictures? you can email me
Leon, in spring, on the Main Trail between Trail Crest and the summit, and especially the short section between Trail Crest and the JMT junction, the trail is blasted out along a cliff. The bench created for the trail completely fills with steeply sloping snow, where to continue, you have to traverse that slope. A fall or slip would be fatal.
That is the Main Trail, not the Mountaineers Route. The MR can be almost as steep, but the route is wider, giving you choices of where to climb.
Edit: Connie Kim posted
these on FB:
Beginning of the Ebersbacher Ledges
Looking down the North Fork drainage. EB Ledges are at the clump of trees on the left
Looking up the route from Lower Boyscout Lake
