The Hard Way to the Top of Tom | Southern Summits #1

It'd been four months since I'd last attempted to top Mt. Tom. Originally, I'd only wanted to reach the Tungstar Mine from the Pine Creek side - a route originally used by the miners - so I could check out the still-standing towers of the old aerial tramway that I'd seen thousands of feet below the mine workings when I visited the Tungstar from the Horton Lakes side a few years earlier. I don't exactly recall how I discovered that Matt @theesotericone was also trying to follow the old tram line, but once I did, we quickly worked out a…

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