Brown Mountain Snowshoe Hike
	Trip Date:  02/24/2013 Distance: 6.7 Miles Vertical Gain: 1000' Group Size: 3 Hike Rating:  Easy   Moderate  Hard   Strenuous	GPX for this trip
	Start Coordinates:   N 38 58.565   W 120 19.503     End Coordinates:   Same as Start Coordinates Car Shuttle Req'd:   No Parking Directions:   Take the Ice House Road from Highway 50 and follow it for about 25 miles north to the Loon Lake campground area.  If the gate is closed you will have to park at that junction, otherwise you can cut a couple of miles off the trip by parking in the campground area. Hazards of Note:   Class 3 rock scrambling to the top of Brown Mountain Crowd Factor:   Moderate.  This is a fairly popular snowshoe and cross country skiing route. General Notes: Follow the blue diamond markings in the trees along the trail to make your way east on this trail if there haven't been others there blazing the way after new snow.  Once you get to the SW base of Brown Mountain, it is a scramble up granite boulders to attain the top of the mountain.  The views of Loon Lake are tremendous from the peak.
	Julia checking out a sign near the beginning of the hike.
	Tell's Peak in the distance above us.
	Guide Peak from about halfway up.
	Phil and Julia just below the summit.
	Guide Peak from the top of Brown Mountain.
	Making the way across the ridge to the true summit.
	Frozen tree at the top of the mountain.
	Marker at the true peak.
	Phil and I at the top of the climb.
	Just me at the top.
	GPX track of the hike.