A Dream Comes True

Photo by: Some Tourist
Rick Faulkner,(aka Itrad), and I on our way to do what we came out here to do. Rick had climbed here a few years ago with Frank Sanders summitting three times in one day! I felt I was in pretty good hands. I was. He allowed me to top out and have the summit to myself for a few minutes. Most of which I spent crying. It had been a dream of mine to see what was up on "That Thing" after I saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind way back in 1977. To finally get to see that the summit looks like a...... Well, I guess you will have to climb it for yourself and see! I wouldn't want to ruin it for you! Do you see the climbers?
September, 2003