With severe weather conditions and temperatures in the low 70's, Lord Kadizzle and Rodger began the assault of Picket Post mountain in bright sunshine. Having been turned back in an earlier assault do to confusion about the route they were determined to make the mountain theirs. With a game leg the fate of Kadizzle was uncertain. Rodger had a plan to roll Kadizzle down the mountain if he became crippled. Rodgers plan gave Kadizzle great incentive not to injure the already weak leg. When it looked like the trail could not get steeper or harder to find, it did. On the way up the Dakota team met one despondent climber coming down who lost the trail near the summit and gave up. As the snow did not fall, and the wind did not blow the team climber higher and higher in the severe 72 Degree weather. Constantly in the back of Kadizzles mind was the fact that they would have to come down, which is always harder. Near the summit Rodger began looking for a geocache. After a little searching he found it. When we reached the summit and Rodger started to look for the next geochache, his GPS went dead. On the way down we realized finding the trail was just as bad as going up. With no spare batteries we made it by following our firm belief that the bottom was downhill. On top of the mountain the view was spectacular.
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