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| Mt Stewart's South face. |
We woke up to a cold morning and left the parking at 1300h. A late start, but it would allow us enough time to approach up to Stuart Pass where we planned to spend the night. We hiked along Ingalls Creek trail for 2hrs and gained 1500m of elevation. We topped a second mountain pass and reached an alpine lake (Ingalls Lake) where we had a good view of where we were supposed to go next up Stuart Pass. At this elevation we found some snow and the ground was frozen on shaded north facing aspects. Not a good sign for us. We were equipped to climb on rock. We sat and had a bite to eat while debating to keep going or not. Would we encounter the same higher up on the North Ridge of Stuart? After a few minutes sitting around we chose to call it and turned around. The cold wind and temperature (around 5C) brought down our drive to sleep in our bivy even higher up at the base of Mt. Stuart tonight. We returned to the van around 1700h a little disappointed but happy to be sleeping somewhere warmer for the night.
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