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@sarae@ecoevo.social Thank you! I find a few details of this history all quite fascinating. A Yakima man named Sluiskin who guided them to the approach route gave them this warning! "Listen to me, my good friends. I must talk to you. Your plan to climb Takhoma is all foolishness. No one can do it and live. A mighty chief dwells upon the summit in a lake of fire. He brooks no intruders. Many years ago, my grandfather, the greatest and bravest chief of all the Yakimas, climbed nearly to the summit. There he caught sight of the fiery lake and the infernal demon coming to destroy him and he fled down the mountain, glad to escape with his life."