Sat, 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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