Palisade Traverse 10/19

Looking for solid beta and weather advice. Gonna try and score a walk up backcountry permit, but if not gonna try for a car to car Traverse. Any help is greatly appreciated. Very skilled on snow/ice and looking forward to the adventure 

Just a "reaction", hope it stimulates corrections . . .
If you're even considering that you might do it car-to-car in a day, you must be elite alpine Animal -- so why are you asking here. Why not check with some of your elite buddies?

Your lack of concern about altitude acclimatization suggests that you already live at altitude -- so why not ask one of your neighbors who has done it?

Just stirring the pot.

Ken

Y.G.D.

Just to be clear, you’re talking about the entire Palisade traverse (from Southfork to Bishop Pass), not just the Thunderbolt-Sill traverse, correcct?

No. Just thunderbolt to sill. 

Dude, if you just wanna hate and talk down then  save your energy. Listen, I’m a fairly kind person, but I don’t like or appreciate you bullying me or anyone on here. So do me a favor and leave it be. 

Good luck and have fun. Just be prepared for real cold once the sun goes down.

HOHMANN t3h bullies are out and about

I personally wouldn't do it past early Sep, but I don't like climbing in frigid, dark conditions. Same goes for Evolution per your other post.  Route finding on Tbolt to Sill is trickier than Evolution.  It's a fairly big day car-to-car, but not excessively chossy by alpine standards.  Good luck!

Bullies everywhere!!! 

You should have no problem getting a permit and you will have the place to yourself.   There is a reason you will be the only person on the route.

I have not done T-bolt to Sill, but I was on the North Ridge of Lone Pine Peak on Saturday. Even though the temps in the Owens valley were in the high 70s, it was sub-freezing almost all day on the ridge. There was snow in the cracks and on the slabs from the storm a few weeks ago, this made progress quite slow and slick. I ended up roping up on terrain which I would easily solo if it had been dry. Still a fun outing, but a bit heads up. I would image theT- Bolt to Sill traverse would be like the route I did but on steroids.

The days are short and the temps are cold.  You know your own abilities, judge accordingly. Be safe and have fun!

Just a heads up, I was up in the area this past weekend and the snow/ice from the storm about a week ago has not melted.  Shouldn't be much of an issue but I was just doing the hike to the glacier from North Fork and turned around before I got to the glacier because the boulder/scree field was really icy.  

Here is a picture from the weekend.  You can see Mt. Sill and North Palisade.

Good luck! Was at Coyote Flats 3 weeks ago and at 10,500 it was really cold...

Dress warm. 

I agree with Jeff B. I attempted conness 2 days ago but there was a significant amount of snow remains from 1.5 weeks ago. This is at ~11k-12k ft. Palisades being higher I would expect more of  snow/ice ridge climb rather than a rock climb.