scree

The route down Lone Peak is steep, starting with dinner-plate talus, then scree, then steep trails.

Szafruga also traversed exposed sections of rock and scree fields across unmarked terrain in order to shorten the routes between mountains—terrain that requires some experience in mountaineering.

It took me about eight hours and five or six rappels before I reached the scree slope.

I’ve worn the Quest year-round on routes that involved climbing slick and muddy switchbacks, in peak summer temperatures as well as in pouring rain, and high in the mountains, slogging up scree slopes and over glaciated alpine terrain.