Mt. Rainier Photos

From the plane

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From the plane (Mt. Adams & Mt. Hood are visible in the background)

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Bad photo from near Ashford

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Best photo I could catch while moving in a car

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From near Ashford

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From near Ashford

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From near Ashford (high zoom)

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My group: me, Brian Morrison, Eric Morrison

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From near Paradise (our starting point)

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Just above the snowline, looking down, during boot camp

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Boot camp, during a break

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Just above the snowline, looking down, during boot camp

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Boot camp - experimenting with ice axes, crampons, and ropes

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Yo

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Chad and Pete, our boot camp instructors

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Looking down during boot camp

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Me, well on my way to a fierce top-of-the-head sunburn, having forgotten the all-important White Sox hat

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Looking back toward Paradise

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Mt. Adams, seen over a ridge line

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Chicago Law, representin' (hiking up to Camp Muir)

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Two guides: Which way did those climbers go, again?

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Looking down during the hike to Muir

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Looking down (Mt. Adams to right)

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Brian, who just stole my camera

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Hook 'em, Horns

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Marmot!

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Marmot!

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Marmot!

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Marmot!

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Mt. Adams, seen over a ridge line

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Mt. St. Helens, from a great distance

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Where we're headed

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Break, on the way to Camp Muir

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Climbing

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Whaddya want?

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Climbing

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Climbing

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Climbing

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Where we're headed

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Mt. Adams (between the hiking poles)

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Climbing

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Mt. Adams

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Mt. Hood (Oregon)

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Guide Robert and another group

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Crevasses

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Climbers

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Crevasses

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Brian, chillin'

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Brian, chillin'

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Yeah, baby

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More of Mt. Adams

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Looking down from Camp Muir

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Independent climbers camping against a snowbank on the Cowlitz Glacier, as seen from Camp Muir

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Cowlitz Glacier; the trails in upper center lead to the Cathedral Gap, the first major hurdle of the summit climb

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Cowlitz Glacier, upper slopes

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Break in the summit crater

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Summit crater

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Summit crater (looking toward Columbia Crest)

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Summit crater

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Summit crater

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Summit crater

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Signing the summit book on Columbia Crest

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View from Columbia Crest

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Columbia Crest

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Eric on Columbia Crest

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I made it! (Me on Columbia Crest)

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I made it! (Me on Columbia Crest)

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I made it! (Me on Columbia Crest)

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[I think this is Brian's cheek. I really don't know.]

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Eric, chillin' on the way down

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Brian, on the way down

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Random shot on the descent. It's a little hard to tell, but a doughnut-shaped piece of glacier has calved off, in the left portion of the shot.

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