Art’s comment on yesterday’s post, about the annual trek up Marys Peak to see how much snow was left, is the perfect segue to today’s photo album page. It shows Dad’s second ascent of Marys Peak, which was the following year. (If you missed Art’s comment or my addendum to yesterday’s post, ←click those words to check them out.)

While there was no snow to be seen in the photos from Dad’s first ascent of Marys Peak on June 20, 1926, there definitely was snow the following year, on July 10, 1927, even though it was three weeks later in the year.

Evidently the group going to the top this time consisted of Dad and four of his brothers.

The brothers posed for a couple of photos on the snow. To be honest, I would not have recognized the two on the left, but now that they’ve been identified to me, I can see that those identifications are correct. I also originally thought the brother on the right was Dad, but that was by process of elimination because I though he had the ability to be in his own pictures (via shutter delay timer). But that was all incorrect. So the correct identifications, from left, are Harold, Irvine, Earl and Ed. Lloyd took the photos. Looks like Harold might have engaged in some throwing of snowballs.

And there is a very out of focus photo of the group at the summit (well, out of focus people, unfortunately—the bucket in the foreground is in very sharp focus!). From left, Ed, Irvine, Earl, Harold (who looks like he might be a little on the cold and tired side).

Addendum

I have much more sympathy with the occasional out of focus photo now that I’ve seen a camera similar the one Dad was using (thanks, Art!). The focus was set manually by estimating distance and adjusting the camera on a distance scale. There was no way to see the correctness of the focus in the viewfinder. These were neat, relatively compact cameras for their time, but they were pretty primitive by modern standards.