This is the handout for the 1980 Fifty Milers.  This was the second of my 50 Miler Scout trips.  The troop had two trips planned because of the number of boys that wanted to go.  Group 1 (My group) was going to do a backpacking trip in the Glacier Peak Wilderness leaving from the Phelps Creek (Spider Meadow) trailhead.  Group 2 was going to do a combined backpacking/canoe trip along Ross Lake.

Mount St Helens had other plans for our trip, and when we got to the trailhead, the air was filled with ash from one of the many eruptions that summer. So we turned around and headed back home, where I hastily put together another trip to leave the next day.