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A long walk up a big mountain.
One of
our highest peaks. A brief, rocky cross-country
final ascent at the top. Outstanding views on clear
days.
The east flank of Butt
Mountain is the mid-point of the famed Pacific Crest Trail,
halfway between Mexico and Canada. The trail is
usually empty, but in mid-July the surviving thru hikers
come striding up our trail toward Butt Mountain, and then
back down the other side heading toward Canada. See
Trail
Journals for their nearly real-time accounts.
Deer Creek (of Deer Creek
Canyon along Highway 32,
Deer Creek in-and-back, and Deer Creek bridge along
Highway 99 near Vina) originates in a spring 0.5 mi to the
east of the summit of Butt Mountain.
There is a lonely campsite
nestled in the trees near the top. On moonless, clear
nights the Milky Way galaxy can be seen stretching across
the sky. And if the unimaginable extent of the
universe becomes overpowering, one can look down far below
to the lights of Chester twinkling cheerily.
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