In the lower left of that shot, you can see the access road that we use clearly.
The little speck is SSS standing, not sitting like it looks, and waving for help.
It seem He was determined to claim My Hodaka for his own.
East of that is a line that is less well defined (clear), that line is the dyke that everybody has run up to.
The line from the highway and the shorter one going west from Floating mountain is a dyke.
When the salt is thin, it looks every bit as good as thin ice on a pond.
At that point, you have to either think or be ready to swim.