
| "It is a sublime experience to have been where no one else has been or will ever go." That is the feeling you get standing on a mountain that is remote, tucked away behind the Pickets, in the shadow of true wilderness. Obviously other climbers have made and will continue to make this trip but while we were there it was a taste of true solitude. You could see not one light of a city on the horizon or even one road, you could not even see a trail because there is none up this mountain, not even on the distant valley floor. And to think that we almost turned back several times in doubt of the route, the weather and perhaps a little of ourselves... |