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nany reasons. I remember the first time ve were here, with All and ler father. As always, the veather changes fast, r’esterday was scorching hot ip here on the rocks; then a hunderstorm blew in from he north, followed by heavy wercast and cold. When the ;un was getting low I started ,outh along the ridge, from he same point where we were hat fall, when we saw the ralcon, eagle, etc. and watched the blizzards coming it us from Snowy Mountain. You remember that you md the rest of the group left me and went along the ridge southward. 1 went the same way yesterday and found the route to be even more treacherous than you described it. The rocks were slick from the rain, and averhanging branches from trees growing 30 feet below made walking and crawling difficult.. I was chilled and anxious to get down, and really didn’t think the next possible place to descend would be so far south and so hard to approach. A couple of times, I ventured down the rock face on the east side, hoping to find a way. but was unsuccessful and had to climb back to the top.
Eventually I came to a place you might remember. A big rock formation in front of me (south) was apparently a barrier. Below me on the left and right, respectively, were the usual sheer rock and overhanging cliff. I considered going back the way I came, but had already come a long ways and thought this way would be shorter and feasible; after all, your group had made it all right.
1 managed to work my way along the west side of the “barrier”, with pretty good handholds, shuffling my feet along under me. At times, my feet were slightly in front of me. so that 1 was leaning backwards over the netherlands. 1 passed a break in the rock — a big crack with a birch iree growing in it — which 1 could have
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