The Wind carried us down hill when we moved up Mount Phoenix

This is an interesting experience as we could not move up further for sake of safety. As the Wind was pushing us leeward to the cliff of the hill at a speed of 45KM!, after we had managed to claw up 1/3 of the trail up, we decided to moved down hill back to the place where we started.
The temperature was 14 Deg at bottom and 8 degrees at 1/3 of trail, the temperature may be just about 3 degrees at hill top… Temperature is not an issue but the Gale!
We will try next week again!
HK Snob