[lopper]

Jack and Crater Mtns are two more examples of climb-worthy overthrusts. What is with this $6 million to "remove" the old wood roads in the WildSkyWilderness? Mother Nature will do it for free in less than one generation. I move that the 6mil be split equitably among the NWHikers group --- call it a 'finders fee'.

[polarbear]

Maybe the road could be converted into a pack animal trail. That would save money and allow for a broader user group. We could divide up the remaining 5 million among the rest of us.

[McPilchuck]

Mike, thanks for the insight as well as "There, surrounded by fantastic folds of phyllite... " I stand corrected. However, the prose were put together from a combination of many trips on Three Fingers, to include what I believe to be huge granite slabs off the beaten path in the area of Salish Peak (I know it intimately perhaps better than most) but then I am really no geologist, just a simple man with a flare to write mountain prose while trying to take mountain photos with good composition. Although I have stood atop many peaks, I am no peak bagger in the sense of putting my name on it, I am a "wild" bagger if one could put a name on it I guess. The photo from the South Peak was just one I captured that seem to fit the verse I wrote that day of the area...that which Pappy alluded to. http://www.alpinequest.com/MR2v018.jpg http://www.alpinequest.com/MR3h060.jpg http://www.alpinequest.com/bouldercrags.htm

[McPilchuck]

As an added thought or thoughts on mountains and the wild, humility comes in the sense of awe, see: http://www.alpinequest.com/whitehorsemtn.htm

[Mike Collins]

McPilchuck... Granite does indeed intrude on the east side of Three Fingers and is probably the same formation as where the Squire Creek/Boulder River divide and Salish Peak is. Have you been up Bullon? That is on my hit list for the future.