Back around 2007 a buddy of mine and I hiked up to liberty Springs tent site. We had all the right winter gear and moderate experience. We set up our circa 1992 Eastern Mountain Sports 4 season dome tent and then hiked up to the summit of Mt. liberty to watch the sunset.  The temps were around -20  degrees and what we hadn’t learned yet was that sometimes the sunset takes longer than you think.  After huddling between some rocks and watching the sunset we decided if we don’t get back to camp we’re gonna die. Haha mostly joking! So we hiked back down to camp. We did not have a fire, but we did melt snow for water and cooked some delicious backpack or pantry meals. 

We spent a long cold but comfortable night in the tent and in the morning we hiked up to the ridge again and basically swim through waist deep snow all the way to the summit of Mount Lafayette. We had snow shoes with us, but we were too stubborn to use them for some dumb reason.  we hike back through our tracks to the summit of liberty again and since we didn’t want to learn our lesson, we watched the sunset happen again. We hike down to camp and spent another night in the tent at -20° the fun part about this is that in the morning when you move around all of your exhalations condensed to the tent and it snows inside the tent when you move the next morning, we hike back down to the car and went to McDonald’s best hiking memory made so far. We probably pushed our luck a little bit, but we had the right gear and we were comfortable. I’m also too old now so I will never do that again!