Sunday, day 2: I was on my way to the shuttle, and saw a small peak behind a residential area that didn't have much snow. So I walked around til I found a way up. First a lot of snow on a steep slope, then it got thick with manzanita. I followed coyote tracks, and near the top started postholing thigh deep. At the top there were snowmobile tracks, so I followed it for 50' and and made it to a high point, and was surprised to find a benchmark "Knoll". I followed more snowmobile tracks to the next high point, which only had a small tower and different kind of benchmark on it. I descended on more snowmobile tracks to another high point, then followed snowshoe tracks back down. I probably should have sat down and slid, instead of postholing down. From low to high point, it was 1000' gain, then another 300' to the condo. In the past I wouldn't even think about doing something this small, but when you don't have much of a choice, you take what you can get. It felt good for the first peak in 6 weeks! (wk 163)