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Some of the best tales and legends about Mt. Adams are found in the visitors' log book at Crag's Camp--a Randolph Mountain Club Cabin just below the timberline on the Western slope of the mountain. The small cabin is reachable only by foot and is perched on a crag which drops 1000 ft. into King Ravine. A caretaker lives at Crag's in the summer, but in the winter it is unoccupied. But the Mountain Club leaves it unlocked for winter climbers, asking only that they leave $1 for the use of the wooden bunks, potbelly stove...
...continue. With slight variations on the theme, the winter climbers go on to describe subsequent attempts and successes at reaching their ultimate goal--the summit of Mt. Adams. One particularly intriguing entry several years ago described the adventures of a party of February hikers. They had planned to use Crag as a base camp and to make daily climbs to the top of Adams and to the smaller peaks nearby--Samuel Adams and John Quincy Adams...
After climbing into the windows of Crag and sleeping huddled around the stove, the party, except for one who had received mild frostbite the day before, left at the crack of dawn in sub-zero temperatures to conquer Adams. Although the sky was clear on their side of the range, the clouds sweeping up the eastern slopes quickly locked in the mountain as they neared the final thousand feet of their climb. The ensuing blizzard completely obliterated any landmarks which they could have followed and any chance that they could reach the top. Now they only wanted to get safely...
...igloo which they built turned out to be quite sufficient. After two days of soup and Hershey's chocolate bars, the sky cleared and the wind subsided enough to allow the weary and half-frozen igloo-dwellers to find their way back down to Crag's. Dinner--which had been prepared two days before by the party member who had remained at Crag's--was hot and ready for serving when the rest of the group staggered into camp...
...last shot we have of Junior's trip in this opening-credits sequence shows him waking up some ways from the road, by a rocky crag and a river where his horse can catch its thirst; the rider touches his wound, but moves right on, right to the outskirts of Prescott, to his father's land...