Have fun, be safe, stay warm!
I think you're nuts, but hey, to each their own!

Damn ..that sounds familiar… My brother had fabricated a steel wood stove, hiked it in ‘in pieces’ (during the summer), and packed ‘the loft’ of a Cascade X Forest Service fire lookout station (base of Mt Hood) with firewood … but we nearly died attempting to get there in the conditions you described.. One of my 3 closest brushes with death.

Take show shoes! We didn’t … he thought the trail would be passable with only boots (as Spring was near). But the elevation gain quickly proved him wrong. I’d never been up there. ..exhausted, taking turns breaking a trail ..wading to our waists in snow, you felt like ‘swimming’ - we could actually see it - around 100 yards away ….but didn’t have the energy to go any further.

We hiked back down by the light of the moon. Got some magnificent ‘film photos’ on the way up. Were so cold ..I noticed cheese falling from my mouth into the snow as I could no longer control those muscles. Fuc…

Often rivals in life, he and I definitely bonded.. He told me years later how impressed he was I agreed to turn back ..with it in sight. Said few he knew would have. A far more experienced hiker than me, having walked the Pacific Crest Trail & climbed ‘our’ Mt Hood several times ..I took his word for that

Snow (fuckin) Shoes! …poor guy will be haunted by that forever ~