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  <verbose_title_text>Alta Mountain</verbose_title_text>
  <keywords>hike</keywords>
  <date_text>November 14, 2004</date_text>
  <location_text>Alpine Lakes Wilderness</location_text>
  <title_text>Alta Mountain</title_text>
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      <caption>Martina eating frost blades</caption>
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    <picture thumbnail_x="170" thumbnail_y="128" lo-rez_x="640" lo-rez_y="480" hi-rez_x="768" hi-rez_y="576" base_name="DSCF0006">
      <caption>Thomas frolicking admist the frost-covered conifers</caption>
    </picture>
    <picture thumbnail_x="170" thumbnail_y="128" lo-rez_x="640" lo-rez_y="480" hi-rez_x="768" hi-rez_y="576" base_name="DSCF0007">
      <caption>Denise and Doug</caption>
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    <picture thumbnail_x="170" thumbnail_y="128" lo-rez_x="640" lo-rez_y="480" hi-rez_x="768" hi-rez_y="576" base_name="DSCF0008">
      <caption>Martina, Peter and Doug with the west end of Box Ridge in the background</caption>
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    <picture thumbnail_x="170" thumbnail_y="128" lo-rez_x="640" lo-rez_y="480" hi-rez_x="768" hi-rez_y="576" base_name="DSCF0011">
      <caption>Box Ridge</caption>
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      <caption>group at summit</caption>
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      <caption>hiking back down Alta Ridge</caption>
    </picture>
  </picture_set>
  <person_set>
    <person>Peter Babler</person>
    <person>Denise Yee</person>
    <person>Thomas Deml</person>
    <person>Martina Guttenberger</person>
    <person>Doug Hilderbrand</person>
  </person_set>
  <commentary>
    <comment><![CDATA[We met at the North Bend Starbucks at 7:30 and left from the Alta Trailhead by 9am.  There was little snow on the ground until well above Rachel Lake. Visibility was poor and we missed the turnoff for the Alta Ridge so we ascended the ridge via a tree-covered gully near Lila Lake.  We reached the summit by 2pm.  We saw one other hiker on the way in and two on the way out. ]]></comment>

<comment><![CDATA[I took a short summit video.  For best results, right-click and choose Save As and save to your local hard disk before playing.]]></comment>
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      <description>Alta Summit video:</description>
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  <hyperlink_set>
    <hyperlink link="http://babler.frankweb.net/alta.htm" caption="Peter Babler's Alta Pictures" />
    <hyperlink link="/trips_2004/trip_log_2004.htm" caption="2004 Trip Log" />
    <hyperlink link="/" caption="Bruce&amp;rsquo;s Web Maelstr&amp;ouml;m" />
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