"Good thinking, Cowboy. We don't want to involve you two any more than necessary. Might be dangerous. So for now, let's saddle up because I am hiring your services to direct me to the exact location where you found the plane wreckage. Jenny comes, too. I'd like to keep an eye on her for her father's sake."

Anthoney was fairly knowledgeable in matters equestrian. True, he held the reins as if riding a snaffle bit and flat saddle through Central Park, but Babs didn't throw him with her classic sideways shuffle she used to inform a passenger just who was boss. It rather amused Jed that Bad Ass Betty was held under tight control as they climbed to the 5,000 foot level of Mt. Cascade via a series of steep switchbacks across a scree slope on a little used trail along the rim overlooking Heartbreak Glacier.

"Whoa-up a second," Jed demanded as he studied a tricky bit of rock-balanced-upon-rock trail. "I'm a thinking we'all maybe should get off and lead the horses across, afoot."

"Is this glacier where you found the plane wreckage," Anthoney inquired?

"Yup."

"Then this is a good spot to do some thinking. Here, Jenny, let me help you down. Jed, are you familiar with US Geological Survey 1 to 24,000 scale topographic maps?"

"A little."

"Well look here, Great White Guide, at these lines. They represent a known altitude. For example, this one is for 5,000 feet of elevation. The next line represents 5,040 feet. The way the lines lay gives a graphic representation on paper as to the shape of the mountain. The closer they are, the steeper the terrain. If the pattern forms a 'V' pointing away from a higher elevation, shown here as a circle, which is the top of that peak over there, that indicates a sharp ridge. A broad 'U' as thus, shows a valley. We are heading for Devil's Horn Basin, a cirque basin, shown by the use of those 90 degree cross hatches on the contour line, to be a depression. A crater. A hole."

"Well, I'll be," Jed exclaimed with a note of amazement that perplexed Jenny, having had Dr. Jedidiah Smith, Ph.D. deliver a similar lecture concerning topographic maps to her just two days ago.