Rainier Trip: August 2001

Part 4 -- Returning from the Summit to Home

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Time to head back down

Adams, Hood, and Jefferson

Coming down to Disappointment Cleaver

The heavily crevassed Ingram glacier as seen from Disappointment Cleaver

Heading off Disappointment Cleaver

Coming off the Cleaver on fixed lines with a great view of the crevasses and moat at the base

The reason we had to use the more technical fixed line route across the moat -- the failed snow bridge on the old route

Debbie feeling pretty good about herself now that she's summitted and through the more technical part of the climb

Heading across Ingram flats

Disappointment Cleaver. Our tracks can be seen on the right and then switching back to the left near the top.

Ingram Flats with the Ingram Icefall behind

The lower sections of the Ingram glacier

Camp Muir as seen from Cathedral Gap

Moving across the Cowlitz glacier

Camp Muir across the Cowlitz glacier with Mount Adams behind

It was like this coyote was here to welcome us back to green grass

The mountain after the climb

Lisa and Hannah meeting me on my way down

Back off the mountain

Debbie, Lisa, and Debbie's good friend Tracey (now ours) posing before we board the plane to go back home

Mount Rainier from the air

Mount Adams from the air

Lisa and Hannah back home helping dad unpack

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