Day One: Fly In and Easy Hike

I think I have never seen such a clear day for flyint! This is a Bell 407, a very powerful machine.

Here is David Peak on left (Cony and Twin Towers on right). Jonathan Kriegel, Chic Scott, and I climbed David in 2002 (after a mistaken climb of the flat ridge on left). David is named after my sister’s father-in-law David Hope-Simpson, a mining engineer in the area around 1950. It was originally called David’s Folly, which his colleagues called it after David made the first ascent.

View from helicopter as we circled for the landing. Photo by David Nebel.

Our lakeshore camp; White Chocolate Couloir on left.