I'm thinking it's time to up my rock climbing skill set so I can do Snake Dike up the west side of HD, and then descend the cables (probably on the outside). No need for a permit for that route.

CaT

If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)