Subject: alsasast concluded etc<br/>
Date: Dec 19, 2001 @ 18:45<br/>
Author: m donner (&quot;m donner&quot; &lt;maxivan82@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-719229108">half moon bay ca<br/>
day 7<br/>
<br/>
harry<br/>
i think your first comprehensive extremity tour or what i called rainbow try <br/>
of nederland is complete even without a photo of nle since the artifacts <br/>
arent what matter but the experience<br/>
& clearly you have at least a great first approximation of it<br/>
so i dont think there will be any other ensemble nominations this year since <br/>
you would win hands down<br/>
<br/>
indeed i am staggered to think what it would take to do the same for <br/>
california even with caw & cas already in the bag if not in the can for i <br/>
cant even find can since it is one of those hard to figure points like ors <br/>
etc etc<br/>
<br/>
& again please excuse the disjointedness of my communications since i am <br/>
moving at high speed & handicap<br/>
<br/>
now as for the conclusion of alsasast<br/>
the recent heavy rains had left a thick layer of mud fudge under the crisp <br/>
icing<br/>
so i could already foresee that some additional degree of difficulty lay <br/>
ahead<br/>
& as i forced my way up mocho canyon into the face of the sun i was already <br/>
luxuriating in resistance<br/>
<br/>
the approach pretty much had to be from the pavement in this canyon on the <br/>
west shoulder of mount boardman since del puerto canyon to the south was too <br/>
far distant while to the east & north lay the even longer emptier slopes <br/>
down to the san joaquin valley<br/>
<br/>
from here at least i would have under 10 miles of mudslick to drive &or walk<br/>
<br/>
so when my best hope of approach via tarraville creek at 2339 feet bottomed <br/>
out with a typically locked gate & barbed wire<br/>
& when my next best hope via smith gulch at 2470 feet was merely cordoned <br/>
off to exclude vehicular traffic i figured i was in luck to even find this <br/>
access & a parking spot with it & so headed up smith gulch on foot for what <br/>
would have been a 3 mile crowfly due east to the target at 3593 feet<br/>
<br/>
but after only half a mile i encountered the usual locked gate with a <br/>
heavier than usual fortification of barbed wire & warning signs etc<br/>
<br/>
a final try by turning up turner gulch at 2700 feet met dangerous mudslick & <br/>
similar fate with barking watchdogs & an owner who had never even heard of <br/>
mt boardman<br/>
<br/>
so i continued south up mocho canyon looking over my left shoulder thru <br/>
patchy fogbanks for any glimpse at the peak now receding from my approach <br/>
more than 3 miles to the northeast until finally i did get a panoramic view <br/>
of the entire crest to the east which rose northward from del puerto canyon <br/>
& i guessed boardman might be the first north of the del puerto gap tho that <br/>
peak later proved to be red mountain while boardman i later learned was <br/>
actually the third in line then visible & hence i was probably then looking <br/>
at a retroactive class d visit<br/>
<br/>
but i was able to keep climbing from there until the real treat came atop mt <br/>
hamilton where at 4213 feet but only 20 miles from the sea i could see & <br/>
identify boardman & all the other features clearly enough thru spotty clouds <br/>
tho more than 10 miles away<br/>
<br/>
in the descent to san jose the dreamscape vanished tho i did later in the <br/>
afternoon pass yahoo headquarters<br/>
<br/>
m<br/>
<br/>
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