After two unsuccessful attampts at Tikishla this summer, I finally made it. My friend Trish and I intended to climb Tikishla, and then continue along the ridge to the two Tanaina peaks. But fog rolled in, and it was very steep and craggy to get back on the ridge to West Tanaina. Better to fail than die on a mountain! The previous two failures were the result of weather, and on one of them my hiking buddy Sally and I took a vacation day to go climb and we got soaked with rain. Some vacation that turned out to be!