December 2005 Rubicon Trail
Photographs here were taken during a five day rockcrawling trip on the famous Rubicon Trail in the Sierra Nevada. Our mid-December (15-19th) trip was only possible because very little snow had fallen in the Sierra this fall. Icey and cold conditions were expected but the forecast was good so we headed for the mountains...
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We located the base of Cadillac Hill an hour after leaving the cabin at Rubicon Springs on Sunday morning. There are two reasons that this steep, narrow section of the trail is named Cadillac Hill. First, there is an abandoned Cadillac near the top of the climb (how anyone get that car in here, I do not know). The second reason is that some ignoramus mistook a mountain for a hill.
