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Sweet revenge comes the next day.
So now I'm faced into this steep snow slope with the pick of my ice axe smacked into hard crystals about face high. A fall would leave me hundreds of feet below, minus several square yards of missing skin. This is my brother's usual standard for route findingsanything not obviously a cliff is obviously a route. Finally, we strike solid track across Hay Pass, descending from glacial breezes to the heady, herbal scents of marshland for rapid southward mileage. Near North Fork Lake, we watch the mother in a family of six backpackers sink to her hips in the muck of a heinous horse ford.