The Narrator And Chris Have Climbed To Nearly Level To The Opposite Side Of The Canyon.

….“Now that we’re up high on one side of the canyon we can see back and down and across to the other side. It’s as steep there as it is here...a dark mat of greenish-black pines going up to a high ridge. We can measure our progress by sighting against it at what seems like a horizontal angle.
.... That’s all the Quality talk for today, I guess, thank goodness. I don’t mind the Quality, it’s just that all the classical talk about it isn’t Quality. Quality is just the focal point around which a lot of intellectual furniture is getting rearranged. .. “

Just After A Very, Very, Steep Climb Slope, On A Side Of Smaller Canyon, Off Of Upper Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin National Forest, MT. Additional clues as to where the narrator and Chris climbed:
..a) Climbing up the “Smaller Seldom Used Canyon”, they can now see level to the top of the larger canyon they left behind. And can see the Larger Canyon has both sites of equal steepness, and height,
..b) And evidently they still are on a continuing very, steep climb slope.
..c) When they look across to the opposite side, there is no snow or it would have been mentioned.
..d) The other side of the larger canyon also has a ridge described as equally high and having “ a dark mat of greenish-black pines“
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These are additional valuable "field checks", to see if the correct route has been found.
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(September 2006 Photo = 0070 ...... ZMM Page = 200...... Photo Simulate WayPt = N+C 11ii ~ 7200ft = 6.56 +0.2 mi fm DeWeese.)