Better Not Climb to the Snow Today. They Start Their Way Down.
“Chris stares at the top of the mountain before us. "Didn’t they get any warning?" .. "I don’t know." .. "You’d think there’d be a warning." .. "Maybe there was." .. We walk to where the ridge we are on creases inward to the start of a ravine. I see that we can follow this ravine down and eventually find water in it. I start angling down now. .. Some more rocks clatter up above. Suddenly I’m frightened. .. "Chris," I say. .. "What?" .. "You know what I think?" .. "No, what?" .. "I think we’d be very smart if we let that mountaintop go for now and try it another summer." …. “
Toward a ravine on way down to, Hyalite Canyon, Gallatin National Forest, MT This was the 1959 Earthquake near Hebgen Lake and just west of Yellowstone NP. I was at this place Sept 06. Several photos will be placed in the YNP segment of my "Personal Experiences Along the ZMM Route". Note several location clues. Chris has struggled all this way. He is very close to the snow and the grandure of the very top of of the big mountain just up the slope. No wonder he will be dissapointed and resist the idea on going down!!
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(Photo = Summer2006 0034 ...... ZMM Page = 219 & 229 ...... Photo simulate WayPt = N+C 25cont 9100ft)