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October 2-3 Patterson/Glass (Jamison/Cohen) Boundary/Montgomery (Private) Jamison/Wickel |  |
Bill Oliver and I planned this trip, figuring on jamming 4 peaks into one pre-winter weekend. A problem arose when Bill lost some important film while descending from a climb of Star King the previous weekend, and he had to return this weekend to search for the film or do the peak over again! He wound up reclimbing the peak, going back home and learning that someone had found the film and was mailing it to him. We missed him on the trip, and could have used him, as his knowledge of the route to Boundary didn't reach me by the time we left for the peaks.
Three vehicles showed up on a clear Saturday morning about 1/2 mile in from Hwy 395 on the Burcham Flat Road, which is about 15 miles north of Bridgeport. Barbara Cohen came with Jim Raiford, and Jim Fujimoto and Eileen Ricks rode in Bill Ramsey's van. We drove in to the trailhead with a car shuttle for the last mile due to Bill's vans inability to negotiate a steep, rock-ridden, gully-washed hill.
The group left for the peak at 9:07 and returned by 11:10. It would not take too much "doing" to drive this peak to within 100 feet of the summit, as the jeep trail has been well-worn by motorcycles. Also, the "road closed" sign is invisib1e when you have lots of dust on the windshield and the morning sun is in your face.
We stuffed all six hikers into my 4 Runner and drove back to the van, then on to Jim Raiford's truck, and we headed for Glass. This is quite a drive! We arrived at the TH at 2:45, where we parked next to Larry Tidball's "2MTNAIR"
The weather was clear and hot, and we joined Larry and Barbee on the summit. On the way up we managed to find some of the loosest, sandiest, no-headway ground that have ever encountered. This was past the