Assassination Attempt Number 19.
It took Wolfy and I two hours to drive to Kelly Butte which is on the way to Mount Rainier.
It was so difficult to locate we even took a wrong road and had to backtrack.
I asked a fiend who works for the forest service if he had ever gotten lost on forest service roads and he said he had.
When we finally got to Kelley Butte it was so hot I decided not to climb it because of Wolfy and her black fur.
We enjoyed the day at the base of the butte but I noticed a man walking by us who came from the butte.
He was completely out of place - clothing, type of pack, shoes, appearance - he looked like a successful middle aged man you would meet on a city street.
We kept watching him and when he was approximately 1000 feet away he crouched down behind some brush and started watching us.
When he saw we were watching him he quickly disappeared.
A short time later I decided to see where he was. We passed him about a mile down the road and two miles down the road found his car.
It was a brand new mid sized car with Colorado plates.
We took pictures but I am sure it was an untraceable airport car.
I have climbed Kelley Butte before and it has a trail which winds up a cliff to the top.
You pass climbers very closely on this trail and one gentle nudge would send you over the cliff and to your death. It would also have been very easy for him to kick Wolfy over the edge.
Just another climbing accident.
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