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Title: Sierra Club bulletin
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Sierra Club
Subjects: Sierra Club Outdoor life Environmental protection Conservation of natural resources
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Sierra Club
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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lake on thewestern side, we climbed to a higher basin to the south,where lay another lake; thence starting up the greatsnowfield that covered half the mountain-side, we madefor a rocky ledge midway between the lake and thethreatening cliffs that topped the snowfield. From thisplace, leaving most of us to rest on the rocks, a scoutingparty went onward to investigate what chance the cliffsmight offer for an ascent. Above us the snow, besides being very steep, grewexceedingly hard, for, as we were on the southwesternside of the mountain, the sun had not as yet touched us.We had neither an alpenstock nor an ice-axe in theparty; even the hobnails in our shoes were worn rathersmooth with the rock-climbing of the last few days, andthe frozen surface offered a very precarious foothold.The cliff proved inaccessible and the men who had withsuch difficulty made their way to its base were now con-fronted with the much graver problem of a return.Indeed, their danger was much greater than we from o
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A Knapsack Trip to Mt. Ritter. 305 below could realize except as we saw it reflected on theirfaces when they at length reached us. A single slipmight easily have been fatal, as one falling would almostinevitably have been dashed into one of the numerousrock-piles that were scattered over the snowfield. A scout now beckoned to us from a point of rocks farto the right. By energetically kicking steps in the snowwe worked across its steep face almost on a level to thelower end of the point. An hours climbing over rocks,sometimes firm, but oftener loose and ready at a touchto become dislodged, brought us to the saddle overlook-ing the upper portion of the glacier lying between Ritterand Banner. Thenceforward the way was plain,—acrossthe snowfield and up the rocky pinnacle to the summit. The ascent of this peak of dread reputation, which,taken from the north, involves one of the most difficultclimbs in the Sierra, had from this southwestern approachproved almost disappointingly simple; bu

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