Jun 4, 2022
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It was heavily overcast this morning, leaving me delightfully cool temps and poor views, a fair trade-off. I got started shortly after 6a, passing through the gate and walking the good road at the base of the mountain a short distance to the junction with the steeper, lesser-used road. It took a little less than 30min to find my way to the top of the road where the telecom antenna is found. From there, the route goes up the South Ridge. A use trail, not evident to start, is soon discovered and useful to avoid any real bushwhacking. I lost it in a few places, but never had any brush to fight through. Near the top it peters out, but the brush is lighter and there are some old roads traversing across the slopes, related to the old mines (on the way down, I stumbled upon the mine shaft to the White Cloud Mine). I got to the summit in under an hour, finding it touching the lower reaches of the cloud layer. Mark Adrian had left a register here in 2018 with a small handful of entries since then. I returned back down via the same route, finishing up by 7:50a, for a total of one hour and forty minutes. I think this might be my shortest day in the last month...
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