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Getting organized at the foot of the mountain. What to take, what to leave, always a dilemma. |
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Crossing the river on a giant fallen cedar, just off the road. |
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| "Straight up and straight down", was one description of this trail. After a short hike across the valley bottom, the mountain slope suddenly rose up through the thick forest in front of us - to our obvious bewilderment. |
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Out of the forest onto a rocky avalanche chute where at least we have a view of the valley. |
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A long scramble lies ahead. |
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From the alpine meadows at about 6500ft, the Cascades stretch off into the distance in the soft early evening light. The air was hazy from forest fires, mostly in B.C., a few miles north of here. |
"The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet" - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
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