My brother and I got caught up here once in what started as light rain. We went up the old trail that goes over the front peak. We hid behind the large rock in the foreground and ate lunch. Then, cold and semi-hypothermic, we climbed up and over. The tube is 3 to 4 feet wide and falls down about 100 feet.
Wind comes up the shaft and is nice a cool after the end of the long hike up to the top.
This is the shorter south peak. A fog bank covers the valley behind the winter picture. This hike is only two miles long, but gains 1,700 feet in the climb. The old trail up the front of the south peak is now closed . Again I am glad to have been able to get such fabulous pictures from these areas before they have been closed.