The Narrator and Chris Continue On An Extremely Difficult Way Down.
“We’re on steep mucky soil now that’s hard to keep a footing in. We grab branches and shrubs to steady ourselves. I take a step, then figure where my next step will be, then take this step, then look again. Soon the brush becomes so thick I see we will have to hack through it. I sit down while Chris gets the machete from the pack on my back. He hands it to me, then, hacking and chopping, I head into the brush. It’s slow going. Two or three branches must be cut for every step. It may go on like this for a long time. For the remainder of the afternoon we climb down over grey weathered trunks of deadfalls and angle back and forth on the steep slope.“
Moving down mucky soil in heavy underbrush, Hyalite Creek, Gallatin National Forest, MT Note several location clues.
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(Photo = Summer2006 0137 ...... ZMM Page = 230 & 231 ...... Photo simulate WayPt = N+C 27 9100ft)