With full packs, scrambling up to base camp.
This part of the trail is relatively easy.
The difficult parts were to brushy to show the "trail" difficulty level. The trip guide said "...follow the faint climber's trail,"
for a few thousand vertical feet.
It took us hours!
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We had to get there to camp up at that notch before we
slept!
There wasn't water until we got to that point!
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Our fearless leader
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How would you like to camp here, next to Colonial
Glacier? We did.
I've wanted to see a remote glacier like this for years. Now I don't have to look in books to see one.
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There's our camp, at the bottom of the
glacier.
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Now over the saddle and to the Neve Glacier. That
peak is our destination.
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The Snowfield Glacier is over 1.5 miles wide.
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Eric: fearless assistant leader and rock master.
Never ruffled or miffed.
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Peak is closer
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We made it. Fred, Peter, Eric, and Anandhi.
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I had to get a picture of my current favorite peak:
Eldorado. It's at far away center.
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From the summit, Baker and the seemingly endless North
Cascades.
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Peter on the way down, through brush.
He took the rope I was supposed to carry because I hit my wall and needed recovery time. Thanks Peter.
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Our camp moraine glacier lake.
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Anna
(Picture courtesy of Eric)
All the following pictures were taken by Anandhi.
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Me
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Colonial Glacier: Our home for a day.
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Having fun stitching 3 pictures together.
This gives a little better idea of the jaw-drapping beauty of this place.
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Me. I'm only half excited here because I'm wasted
from the climb.
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Fashionable Fred :)
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As usual on a small summit, we all took pictures of each other over and over... |
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Packing up, moving out.
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