We started up Middle Creek at 10:30 AM and by 2 PM we had reached our campsite at 10,100', about 1.6 miles NE of the Jumpoff. Some bushwacking was met along the way in but a route on the south side of the creek in the timber above the avalanche gullies avoided most of the brush. Reliable springs several hundred feet below camp and afternoon streams in some of the above-camp gullies afforded good. water. Camp was made on a steep slope from which the best spring gushed.
Four in the party tackled Mt Montgomery Sat afternoon, making the round trip from camp in about five hours. Six more joined us from Loma Prieta latter in the day, swelling us to eighteen for the trip.
On Sunday, thirteen stalwarts made the 13,559 summit of Mt Dubois by various routes and two climbed Montgomery. Most went up DuBois by the more direct route, being a south heading from camp toward a saddle on the ridge which extends east from the mountain massif about half way between the Jumpoff and Dubois. From this saddle the main ridge wee attained and from this point it was a mile walk on the almost-flat plateau to the summit.
We were all back in camp by 2:30-even one party who did Montgomery and Boundary after having done Dubois! He traversed over to Montgomery from DuBois via the Jumpoff Point. The backpack out to the cars was hot, but happily short.
Climbing Dubois by backpack is a good thought since a one-dayer is too strenuous. However, I'd. recommend it be done a bit earlier in the season when there would be some long snow slopes covering the talus and scree. This would be more enjoyable for those that prefer steep snow to scree scrambles.