First light came early, so we decided to leave at second light which is about 8 o’clock. Leaving camp, I noted we had about 12 hours of daylight, plenty of time for a short easy scramble of two peaks. We followed the creek keeping between the edge of the talus field and the creek. Heading north and slightly west we walked through the open forest to gain the south trending arm that comes down from the pass that separates Big Craggy and West

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