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Tim Holding missing 3-Sep-2009 At 6:17:51 PM lacto

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It sound like he ended up in the creek near the spring and it would be very very icy to traverse back to the memorial cross (that section is nearly always icy even when the rest is relatively soft snow . His only choices were to go back up or go down the creek (though nw spur would have been a breeze from there ) Had he gone up the spur the goes up to little feathertop he could have got back to federation hut . By sidling or going down he got into very steep territory and was actually heading away from bungalow . At least he got below the snow line but following stony creek down would have been horrendeous . I wonder how often Sabu has been up feathertop to be able to make claims like he has about what gear etc is appropriate