They (Forest Service regulations) had a limit then of 20 people in a party, and so what we had was many groups of 20, each with a leader. Twenty people would go off, and when the last one was off and maybe a couple hundred feet up from Timberline, the next one would take off. And they just kept moving out.

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Some people got mountain sick, but not seriously. Since everybody was being watched pretty carefully by the mountain rescue folks, it stayed really stable and good. People might get sick and decide they couldn't go any further, but nobody got lost.

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