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Sun, Jul 27 2025 - Great Northern (View Original Event Details)

Coordinator(s): Henry R. Smith
Participants:Sher B, Lydia R, Stephen Smith, Jodi Smith, Henry R. Smith, Matt Kerezsi, Desiree Kentros, Scott Freeman


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Write Up:
Beautiful day on Great Northern with the crew. As every trail guide said, the first ascent was very steep but it had excellent shade. We split off with Stephen and Jodi so they could go their pace. At the saddle we made two friends with local billy goats, one thought we made a connection and followed us up the trail a ways. West face had some narrow ledges to navigate that we were able to avoid on the way down. A couple fun scrambles near the top added variety to the trail hiking. Matt, Sher, Lydia, Desiree, Scott, Henry summitted though there were no shirley temples at the top. The top was busy, met a few other groups with the highlight being the mountain dog Sanders who's favorite food is snow. "Descent was worse than going up" -Everyone on the climb. Sun only got hotter and knees took a beating. But, more sun meant great views of the mountain during the descent. We broke apart in the final descent then met up at the bottom where Stephen and Jodi delivered cold drinks to finish off the hike (almost). Great company, 1 injury (Matt took a tree to the arm), 3 dogs, 3 gunshots, 1 million lady bugs, 2 million flies, 6 first ascents and 0 shirley temples.



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