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Big Basin State Park
Noah Levine • Dharma Punx
constructed Timberline Lodge on the slopes of Mount Hood,
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
rock scramblers on the West Ridge, ice climbers on the Col route.
Thomas F. Hornbein • Everest: The West Ridge, Anniversary Edition
-Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway
-Newberry National Volcanic Monument
-Sparks Lake
-Tumalo Falls
-Tamolitch Falls
-Trillium Lake
-Crater Lake
-Smith Rock State Park
-Three Sisters
-Cannon Beach
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-Colchuck Lake
-Diablo Lake
-Picture Lake
-Chain Lakes Loop
-Artist Point
-Rialto Beach
-Mount Storm King
-Tipsoo Lake
-Fremont Fire Tower
-Sunrise Point
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John McPhee • Annals of the Former World
the much more difficult summit of Carstensz Pyramid (16,535 feet) in the Indonesian province of Irian Barat,
Jon Krakauer • Into Thin Air
The West Ridgers would have only one shot at a summit attempt, and it came on May 22, just three days before the expedition was slated to pack up and head for home.
Thomas F. Hornbein • Everest: The West Ridge, Anniversary Edition
Fittingly, the summit was a surreal, malevolent place, an improbably slender wedge of rock and rime no wider than a file cabinet. It did not encourage loitering.
Jon Krakauer • Into the Wild
Up there on the heights, far above the gloom of the valley floor, the otherwise barren slopes were dotted with graceful Chilgoza pines still washed with sunlight, their silver bark and viridescent needles glowing in the fleeting rays.