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Shauney, Lauren, her friend Amy Miller, Shauney’s mom Joan, Bob Lowell and I left Novato about noon in our RV with van in tow. By 6pm we were set up at the KOA in Mt. Shasta city. This would be the girls’ home for the next two days while Bob and I were on the mountain.

Hooking up.

In preparation for an early morning departure on Saturday, we checked our gear and repacked our backpacks. We loaded Bob’s new GPS with Mt. Shasta topo information and got out the clothing we would need for the morning’s climb.

“Hmmm, whatta ya think Bob, do we need this?”

The weather was clear, calm, and unusually warm, reaching about 90 degrees during the day and 40s at night in Mt. Shasta city. I had purchased additional fleece clothing after freezing my butt off at Round Top Lake (a practice climb we took near Kirkwood in May), but opted to leave it behind expecting comfortable temperatures on the mountain. I would pay for this decision later when the nighttime temperature plunged to well below freezing.

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