Cool. I'll try to arrive at 6 then

Lionel wrote: This is due to workers laying pipe for the bowl.

Hmmm ... WHAT are the workers doing ??? Is that legal ??

Might try tomorrow. Wish I had time to hit up truchas on the way

Damn. 30% chance of rain and t storms my only 2 days I can do it

Wednesday to Friday are supposed to be a break in the monsoon and might be dry.

I was up in the area on saturday. It was very active with the storms. Admittedly I did not climb Humphreys. However, I did climb Sitgreaves nearby. If the weather is active, you still have a reasonable chance if you get a very early start and can be at the top by 7 or 8 a.m., meaning a pre-dawn start. The thunderheads were starting to build by 9 a.m. or so. It's a calculated gamble.

I think the monsoon has been very busy this past week, moreso than usual. I did see the break in the pattern at least for the southern deserts on the various weather sites, so I echo Lionel above. However, even in normal monsoon conditions, you want to be down and back in the trees by mid-morning.

Surgent, read the previous post about the road closure.

What's with the road closures? Does the FS get a kick out of closing gates, or is that just par for the course ???

They really are laying pipe and doing construction for the expansion and snow making operations up on the Peaks. I think they're working in the day, but have had some vandalism or are afraid of vandalism, and are therefore closing the area at night. A die hard could enter from the Inner Basin, but the paved access to 9300' is closed nightly.

Hmm damn I was gonna try and get there at 6

I'm busy all those days with slackline demos and stufff

I wanna thank the native american dood for waking me up in a walmart parking lot trying to get drugs. All I want is sleep!

I think I'm gonna go do my tourist stuff today(meteorite crater and the grand canyon) since I've gotten no sleep and dehydrated. So altitude is kicking my ass. ill go to the trailhead on way to the GC. Work on acclimatizing.
I'm gonna go back to my original plan and try on the 18th

Hmmm didn't realize AZ didn't believe in daylights saving time.

It's the folks in Phoenix. They figure, "good lord, why would we WANT more daylight?"

I'm gonna bail on this peak and just go to Colorado. More thunderstorms are rolling through