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switchbacks brought us to the crest of the ridge where the 
grade was easier, but the wind blew a gale and we kept our 
feet with difficulty. We found some rock to ascend and in 
one place it was rather interesting work. Here we stopped 
twenty minutes for lunch and reached the summit at 8:45 
a. m., four hours from camp. This was the first ascent by 
this route, a wholly eastern one. 
We wrote our record, deposited it in the cairn and took 
photographs. Leaving the summit at 9 a. m. we arrived at 
timberline camp at 10:15 and found Mr. Blosser rested and 
ready to move with us. We ate lunch, packed up and started 
for main camp, following the route of the day before 
as far as Chocolate River. From here we cruised out another 
route to the Suiattle River, which did not prove as satisfactory 
as our original one. We arrived in camp at 7:00 p. m. and 
received a royal welcome. 
The fifth ascent was made by Dr. Hall and Dr. Dehn, of 
the University of Washington, August 4, 1910, following the 
same route as the first and second ascents recorded in this 
article. Upon reaching the peak that disappointed the U. 8. 
G. S. party the clouds were so thick that nothing could be 
seen and they thought they had reached the summit. How 
ever, the atmosphere cleared, the mistake was discovered and 
the ascent completed. This peak which has deceived so many, 
has been named Disappointment Peak. The descent was made 
by way of the Cool Glacier and valley to the Suiattle and 
down this river to where they encountered the trail we had 
built from main camp. 
The sixth ascent was by the Mountaineers, fifty-seven in line, 
who made the ascent from the temporary camp selected on the 
scouting expedition previously mentioned. The party left 
timberline camp at 4:30 a. m., August 5, 1910, arrived at the 
summit at 11:10 a. m., making the ascent in six hours thirty- 
six minutes. The return trip was made to temporary camp 
in two hours. 
The seventh ascent was made by another party of Moun- 
taineers consisting of Miss Lovering, Mr. C. Ik. Forsyth, and 
Karl Rice, on August 8, 1910, who followed exactly the same 
route as the third ascent. 
