Rainier Trip: August 2001
Part 4 -- Returning from the Summit to Home
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Time to head back down
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Adams, Hood, and Jefferson
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Coming down to Disappointment Cleaver
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The heavily crevassed Ingram glacier as seen from Disappointment Cleaver
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Heading off Disappointment Cleaver
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Coming off the Cleaver on fixed lines with a great view of the crevasses and moat at the base
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The reason we had to use the more technical fixed line route across the moat -- the failed snow bridge on the old route
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Debbie feeling pretty good about herself now that she's summitted and through the more technical part of the climb
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Heading across Ingram flats
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Disappointment Cleaver. Our tracks can be seen on the right and then switching back to the left near the top.
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Ingram Flats with the Ingram Icefall behind
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The lower sections of the Ingram glacier
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Camp Muir as seen from Cathedral Gap
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Moving across the Cowlitz glacier
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Camp Muir across the Cowlitz glacier with Mount Adams behind
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It was like this coyote was here to welcome us back to green grass
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The mountain after the climb
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Lisa and Hannah meeting me on my way down
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Back off the mountain
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Debbie, Lisa, and Debbie's good friend Tracey (now ours) posing before we board the plane to go back home
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Mount Rainier from the air
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Mount Adams from the air
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Lisa and Hannah back home helping dad unpack
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