The Narrator Reach a Cliff and Move Along It In Search for a Way Down.
“ We reach a cliff, angle along its edge in search of a way down, and eventually a narrow draw appears which we’re able to descend. It continues down through a rocky crevice in which there is a little rivulet. Shrubs and rocks and muck and roots of huge trees watered by the rivulet fill the crevice. Then we hear the roar of a much larger creek in the distance.“
Rocky Crevice, Just Above Hyalite Creek, Gallatin National Forest, MT Note many location clues as to where this route may have been. The narrator says they reach a cliff and it is bad enough that they must move along it in search for a way down. Although the previous WayPts I have shown on my Hypothetical Climbing Trail Map fit very well to the ZMM Narrative, many reasonable routes down to the nearest road with campers would be much easier than the one I have shown. An inexperienced person, not having a topo map, might well stumble onto a cliff. There are plenty over this way, but, the Narrator even in his emotional condition, should have been able avoid such a disaster! My Hypothetical Climbing Trail Map essentially shows a bumbling idiots way down. This does have a rugged cliff that, wherein there is a major mountain stream near enough to hear roar. This is of course upper Hyalite Creek.
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(Photo = Summer2006 00159 ...... ZMM Page = 230 & 231 ...... Photo simulate WayPt = N+C 28 8200ft)