Desolation Shelter, Wilderness Trail
Where: Desolation Shelter via Wilderness Trail When: 1/27-1/28, 1996 With: Chip We were supposed to go to Guyot. Guyot Shelter, that is, high on the side of Mt. Bond. I've been there twice, on solo trips. Chip had never been, but a friend of his described it as his favorite shelter in the Whites and Chip was interested in visiting. Besides, it's one of the few backwoods shelters in the Whites which we haven't stayed at on one of our famous winter hikes (though one of my solo visits had been in the spring and there was enough snow to LOOK like winter). After our success at reaching Garfield last year, Guyot seemed reachable. Our initial plans called for a trip the first weekend in January, taking a route from the north, over the Twin Mountains. As the day grew near though, I began to have doubts about our ability to reach our goal. An access road to the trailhead turned out to be a forest service road, closed in winter. That added 2.5 miles to the trip right away. Then...