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I'm just getting into mountaineering with a trip to Mt. Baker planned for the near future. We're looking at camping near the base of the Black Buttes. Several trip reports keep referring to a "Point 7242" as their place of preference. What does that mean? Is it a reference to a GPS/topographic map coordinate? Help a guy out.

Below is an example trip report and topographic map:

http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopi ... 915#718915

http://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/rasterg ... FSTopo.pdf