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Rainbow Peak
by Don Hansen, Scree
On a bright sunny Saturday morning, September 12th, the three of us: Bernie Kaye, Dennis Morford and I went for a pleasant hike up Rainbow Peak, along the standard route from a high point on the Johnson Trail, up the foot of the ridge leading to the peak and up the ridge on the low angle rocks to the base of the south face and traverse right below the face and a short climb up a scree slope and traverse back on the ridge to the summit. We saw several Dall sheep on the way up the ridge and Bernie got so close to one flock of ewes and lambs to get pictures that I thought the sheep were going to adopt him. From the summit we could see part of the new McHugh Creek Trail in the valley to the north of the peak. Dennis donated a new notebook to the register tube which only had some small paper "stickems" for registrants to use. We had a pleasant hike down and only spent about five hours on the trip, including lunch and sheep watching.
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