Kevin and I attempted to climb up to Moose Mountain the back way. The plan was to bike from the parking lot to the ice cave trail, poke around in there, then traverse under the cliffs to flip up onto the ridge above the caves, gain the ridge-top, then wander over to have a look at Moose and climb up the back side if conditions were right. Well, they weren't -- hard packed snow in the bowl behind Moose, low on time, low on energy, and someone without any sort of traction device for his feet... Fun day even though we didn't make out objective, but I think we would have if there wasn't any snow in the bowl.
