The Rock At The Mountain Top, Where Chris & Narrator Fall Asleep =>
…. After This Triple Climax: 1) The Narrator Has Achieved His Long Sought Key To Quality! 2) Chris, After His Long Struggle, Finally Achieves Joyous Triumph At the Ridge Top! AND 3) The ZMM Narrative, correspondingly, Brings Us As Readers To a Dramatic High Point Of The Climb Narrative!

….[He raises his arms and shouts, "The Winner!" .. Egotist. .. I’m breathing so hard when I arrive I can’t speak. ] We just drop our packs from our shoulders and lie down against some rocks. The crust of the ground is dry from the sun, but underneath is mud from last night’s rain.

The Top Of A Ridge Crest, On Flank Of Mountain With Snow, Above Upper Fox Creek, Off Of, Upper Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin National Forest, MT. According to more than one WebSite, Mt. Blackmore is an old volcano. The presence of volcanic activity in the Mt Blackmore area, confirmed by the rock shown in the /\ Above /\ Photo. It certainly looks like ancient volcanic lava!
…. Click Here To View Panorama Photo With This Ancient Volcanic Rock, Proof Enough, That These Mountains, Have Volcanic Activity Beneath: Volcanic here, for the same reason as Yellowstone National Park, a mere 60 miles away.
….Click above for discussion (and further links) for IDEA that there is a Deep “HotSpot” now apparently under Yellowstone National Park, and eventually will create a spectacular super blast, making a much deeper and much larger caldera, than the ~45 Mile Diameter Caldera (from a 640,000 year ago), which formed the Ring of Mountains and Lake now there in central YNP.

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(Photo = September2006 0002 ...... ZMM Page =216 ...... Photo simulate WayPt = N+C 24cont1 9220ft = 9.39 mi fm DeWeese.)