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<\/a>USFS Road No. 386\u00a0is a major gravel road.\u00a0 It was slick with packed snow and ice.\u00a0 The\u00a0road\u00a0curved around as it climbed.\u00a0 SPHP trudged along the\u00a0uninteresting big road.\u00a0 Lupe\u00a0was having some luck finding squirrels to bark at in the forest, though, so she was\u00a0busy dashing off here and there having a good time.<\/p>\nAbout a mile\u00a0S of Deerfield\u00a0Road, Lupe and SPHP reached the intersection with USFS Road No. 386.1B, a minor road much more to SPHP’s liking.\u00a0 Lupe and SPHP followed\u00a0No. 386.1B.\u00a0 It went E until it\u00a0got close to the W slopes of Smith Mountain<\/a> (5,897 ft.) <\/span><\/span><\/strong>and then turned S.\u00a0 Lupe stuck with No. 386.1B until it got close to the S end of Smith Mountain.\u00a0 Then Lupe and SPHP took off heading SSW through the forest.<\/p>\n Lupe soon came to a big open field,\u00a0which she and SPHP crossed,\u00a0continuing SSW.\u00a0 Lupe eventually returned to the forest S of the field.\u00a0\u00a0Before long, Lupe ran into\u00a0USFS Road No. 727.1F at a point\u00a0just NW of Flag Mountain<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0(5,896 ft.)<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 No. 727.1F took Lupe S\u00a0skirting just W of Flag Mountain.\u00a0 It linked up with No.\u00a0727 just a little W of the saddle between Flag Mountain on the N, and Campaign Hill on the S.<\/p>\n Of course, SPHP actually had a\u00a0peakbagging goal in mind for Lupe.\u00a0 Back on Black Hills, SD Expedition No. 106 on 11-28-14, Lupe climbed a couple of mountains\u00a0she had already passed by today – Smith Mountain and Flag Mountain.\u00a0 On Expedition No. 106, she hadn’t had time to continue S to Campaign Hill<\/a> (5,800 ft.)<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, but now she was practically there.<\/p>\n Lupe and SPHP went E on No. 727 just a few hundred feet to the high point of the saddle.\u00a0 There, Lupe and SPHP left the road to start climbing straight up the N face of Campaign Hill.\u00a0\u00a0Lupe only had to gain a little over 200 feet of elevation from the saddle to reach the summit ridge.\u00a0 She reached the top of the ridge near the E end.<\/p>\n Lupe and SPHP explored the ridge up at the top of Campaign Hill looking for the true summit.\u00a0 The ridge line went W from the E end of the mountain to the first (NW)\u00a0rock formation, and then curved SSW.\u00a0 Lupe climbed up on the first rock formation, but there were so many trees she couldn’t even see Flag Mountain just 1\/3 mile to the N.\u00a0 However, she could see more big rocks off to the SSW.\u00a0 They looked even higher.\u00a0 The true summit of Campaign Hill had to be over that way.<\/p>\n Lupe didn’t have to go very far to reach two more high points.\u00a0 The middle one was higher than the NW high point she had just come from, but the\u00a0true summit was at\u00a0the\u00a0next high point\u00a0beyond it.\u00a0 All of the high points featured exposed rock formations.\u00a0 The largest rock formation was at the summit.<\/p>\n SPHP had to lift Lupe up onto the highest rocks at the true summit of Campaign Hill.\u00a0 Lupe had accomplished her primary peakbagging goal for the day!\u00a0 Other than the satisfaction of just being there,\u00a0\u00a0Campaign Hill wasn’t\u00a0providing\u00a0much of a reward.\u00a0 The forest was so thick,\u00a0there weren’t clear\u00a0views in any direction.\u00a0 Lupe could catch only a glimpse of Harney Peak<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0(7,242 ft.)<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0through the trees from the highest rocks, and that was about it.<\/p>\n There was still plenty of time left in the day.\u00a0 Why not go visit Peak 6048<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>?\u00a0 It was just a mile to the S of Campaign Hill, and Lupe and SPHP had never been there before, either.\u00a0 So Lupe and SPHP headed SSW down along the ridge line from Campaign Hill.\u00a0 To the E, the terrain dropped off steeply.\u00a0 To the W, the terrain sloped away much more gently.<\/p>\n A little less than halfway to Peak 6048, there was an opening in the forest along the ridge line as it was dropping down into a saddle.\u00a0 Here Lupe got her first clear look at Peak 6048.\u00a0 The steep N face was snowy, and appeared to be covered with a maze of deadfall timber.\u00a0 Lupe could see that Peak 6048 had a double top, with the true summit being to the E.\u00a0 It also looked like there\u00a0were rocks at the E end of the mountain where there might be some pretty decent views.<\/p>\n Lupe and SPHP continued down into the little saddle, and then climbed over a small hill heading S.\u00a0 Beyond the small hill, the ridge line leading\u00a0to Peak 6048 continued.\u00a0 The ground to the E still fell off sharply, but to the W\u00a0the land sloped gently toward sunlit forests and little fields full of snow and light.<\/p>\n The climb up Peak 6048 from the NW was slow.\u00a0\u00a0A few inches of snow made everything slippery.\u00a0 The worst obstacle was\u00a0the large amount of deadfall timber to be navigated.\u00a0 Lupe reached the NW high point on Peak 6048.\u00a0 There were some pretty big rocks up here.\u00a0 Lupe found a cairn at the top of them.\u00a0 Trees blocked the views in most directions, but it was possible to get a pretty decent view off to the NW.<\/p>\n Lupe continued SE looking for the true summit of Peak 6048.\u00a0 She lost only a little elevation, and then came to another snowy climb through more deadfall.\u00a0 For a short stretch, SPHP was reduced to climbing up on hands and knees while clinging to rocks and trees.<\/p>\n At the SE summit, there were two large rock formations.\u00a0 The one farthest to the SE seemed to be slightly higher and the true summit of Peak 6048.<\/p>\n The best views from Peak 6048 were not at the summit.\u00a0 They were from the top of a cliff about 25 feet lower than the summit and a short distance to the E.\u00a0 Naturally, Lupe and SPHP had to check it out.\u00a0 There were sweeping open views all the way from the N around to the SE.\u00a0\u00a0This cliff with the fabulous views\u00a0was a good spot to take a little break.\u00a0 Lupe had her Taste of the Wild.\u00a0 SPHP had an apple.<\/p>\n After hanging out at the E cliff for a little while, it was time to go.\u00a0 Lupe and SPHP climbed back up to the true summit of Peak<\/span> 6048<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0 The 2nd large rock outcropping, the one that\u00a0wasn’t quite as high, was nearby to the NW.\u00a0 Lupe and SPHP went over there for a few minutes.\u00a0 Even though these rocks weren’t quite as high as the true summit, the whole rock formation was more interesting.\u00a0\u00a0The American Dingo\u00a0graciously\u00a0posed for a couple of photos.<\/p>\n The trek down the NW slopes of Peak 6048 seemed to take a long time for no farther than it was.\u00a0 Going down, the snow seemed more slippery.\u00a0 The deadfall seemed denser and more bothersome.\u00a0 Finally, SPHP was down off the steepest part\u00a0of the\u00a0mountain, and Lupe could race on ahead.<\/p>\n Just for fun, and since it was on the way back to the G6, Lupe and SPHP returned to climb Campaign Hill again.\u00a0 Before reaching it, Harney Peak was visible from the ridge line all lit up in the slanting rays of the January afternoon sun.<\/p>\n Lupe went clear up to the very top of Campaign Hill for a 2nd time, but didn’t stay there long.\u00a0 SPHP still wanted to climb Flag Mountain to the N, too.\u00a0 Lupe and SPHP went past the other high points along the ridge, and then headed down the N slope of Campaign Hill.\u00a0 Lupe crossed USFS Road No. 727 at the saddle, and started up the SW slope of Flag Mountain.<\/p>\n The climb up Flag Mountain from the SW was easier than expected.\u00a0 It was kind of steep, but there wasn’t any snow.\u00a0 There wasn’t much deadfall timber either, except near the very top.\u00a0 The sun was starting to get low in the SW by the time Lupe arrived on top of Flag Mountain.\u00a0 A cool NW breeze was starting to blow.<\/p>\n It was getting to be time to hurry on.\u00a0 Lupe left Flag Mountain heading down the N slope.\u00a0 SPHP lost a lot of time again picking a way slowly down through the snow and plentiful deadfall timber.\u00a0 After losing sufficient elevation, the terrain began to level out a bit and there was much less deadfall.\u00a0 Lupe and SPHP could make progress again.<\/p>\n Lupe crossed Patterson Creek in a big field N of Flag Mountain.\u00a0 This field connected to the big open field she had traversed earlier in the day.\u00a0 By now the sun was on the horizon.<\/p>\n After crossing Patterson Creek and the big field, Lupe was almost to USFS Road No. 386.1B just SW of Smith Mountain again.\u00a0 Before Lupe and SPHP could even reach the road, the sunset suddenly\u00a0developed into a beautiful display of color.\u00a0 It almost looked like the forest was on fire!<\/p>\n The glorious sky faded as quickly as it arrived.\u00a0 Lupe and SPHP reached USFS Road No. 386.1B again.\u00a0 The rest of Lupe’s return trip to the G6\u00a0was just a retracement of the first part of her day’s journey.\u00a0 She still had 3 miles to go to get to the G6.<\/p>\n Lupe and SPHP trudged onward in the gathering gloom.\u00a0 Every now and then, Lupe would hear\u00a0something undetectable to SPHP in the forest.\u00a0 Each time she raced off to investigate, returning to SPHP a few minutes later with a big grin on her face, as if some animal out there had told her a really good joke.<\/p>\n It was 6:40 PM, and still a balmy 43\u00b0F out when Lupe reached the G6.\u00a0 Lupe jumped very willingly into the G6, and curled up.\u00a0 Black Hills, SD Expedition No. 115 was over.\u00a0 It had been a great day.\u00a0 Lupe hardly stirred on the drive home.\u00a0 She must have had a great day, too! 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