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    Boston and Sahale 7-17-09

    It was 3:30 in the afternoon and Sonny was gone. Boston Peak is the high point
    in an important cirque, but the peak has an awful reputation for looseness and
    poor quality rock. In fack the rock is quite shattered, but as opposed to loose
    it is more.....how to say?.....grabby! We had stuck a rope when Melon and I had
    done the peak 13 years earlier. Aaron really "wanted" the mountain. What a funny
    way to put it? As if we could own it. As we have been saying the last year or
    so..."The mountain doesn't care.""The canyon doesn't care."

    On the way over toward the base of the final peak, Aaron was asking me
    questions. I couldn't hear him. I was trying to "get into the mode," on the
    knife edge approach. I finally snapped at him with a "WHAT?" He quieted down and
    allowed me to get comfortable with the passage. He led the 1.25 pitches of steep
    low class 5 and we were on the ridge, 150 feet of knife edge from the summit.
    You can see pictures of Aaron coming over to the top.

    The summit has the nicest register I have ever seen. A large and fine leather
    bound book. It was placed in 1966 and was only on page 46. We were the 2nd party
    of the year. Inside was a who's who of alpine climbing. It was neat to have our
    names alongside the luminaries. Everyone responds to the fine book by writing in
    fine penmanship and the book is sprinkled with fine art work too. It is like to
    use obscenity or to not be neat would be criminal.

    We carefully executed the 3 single rope raps off the south face and found that
    we had time to sprint up Sahale, summiting at 8:30 PM. A fast trot down the
    Quein Sabe Glacier had us eating dinner in fading light, which in the
    neighborhood was close to 10 PM, that time of year. To bed soon after. The famed
    west ridge of Forbidden was on the docket for early the next morning. The mid
    felt empty now that Sonny was gone.

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    Ram, I have truly enjoyed every installment of your trip.

    The pictures are beautiful!

    There are so many questions that I could ask. I've never heard/noticed of Mountaineering until reading your last two Cascade trips.

    Thanks for sharing.
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