Point is, how is he ever going to find someone lost on this monster sooty mountain? Balder's son has been lost all night long somewhere on Blackwell adjacent Jasper Mountain in the cold and dark drizzle, and he going to look for him. The pulp logs won't get cut, the pines for the sawlog mill won't get marked, and Robbie is probably sitting down there telling himself some stuff it might not matter much to know-but at least they'll get to see some of this mountain.