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发表于 2006-7-21 21:24:19
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The Majestic Hozomeens - North Side (Winter)
History: The peak was first attempted in 1859 by Henry Custer. In the survey notes, it was noted that the Indians called it "Hozameen" (with an "a"). However the survey spelled it Hozomeen (with an 0). Today, the Canadian topo maps spell the adjoining ridge "Hozameen Range", but the American topo maps and most guidebooks spell it as Hozomeen. Jack Kerouac waxed poetic about Hozomeen Mountain. He spent several weeks during the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak, in the North Cascades National Park. He wrote about his experiences in the books "The Dharma Bums" and "Desolation Angels": Hozomeen, Hozomeen, most beautiful mountain I ever seen ... but what a horror when I first saw that void the first night of my staying on Desolation Peak, waking up from deep fogs of 20 hours to a starlit night suddenly loomed by Hozomeen with his two sharp points, right in my window black... Over 70 days I had to stare at it. Those afternoons, those lazy afternoons, when I used to sit, or lie down, on Desolation Peak, sometimes on the alpine grass, hundreds of miles of snowcovered rock all around, looming Mount Hozomeen on my north, vast snowy Jack to the south, the encharmed picture of the lake below to the west and the snowy hump of Mt. Baker beyond, and to the east the rilled and ridged monstrosities of the Cascade Ridge, and after that first time suddenly realizing "It's me that's changed and done all this and come and gone and complained and hurt and joyed and yelled, not the Void" ...
Image sourced and adapted from Randall's Flying Photos Page. (Name status: Official)
Hozomeen South Peak - North Aspect
Hozomeen South Peak is an impressive, castellated rock spire forming the southeastern of the three Hozomeen Peaks. Composed of black, metamorphosed greenstones, this summit is difficult to reach, difficult to ascend and rarely climbed. All routes require 5th class climbing.
History: Hozomeen South Peak was "the last major summit in the Cascades to be climbed", although higher peaks such as Mount Rahm were unclimbed at the time Hozomeen South was climbed. (Name status: Suggested)
Hozameen Mtn from the air |
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