All tucked in for the night at Camp Schurman 9400 ft. From here the view is to the east and the full moon rising. To the north we can see clear to mt baker. To the northwest the view is spectacular... The Olympic mountains, all of puget sound and the lights blinking from Olympia Tacoma Seattle and on northbound to Everett.
Todays climb was difficult. The inter glacier was very steep and we kicked our own trail up it. Thank goodness for crampons. They are
lifesavers.
Once we topped out the inter glacier we scrambled up and around a rocky ridge and steeply down the other side.
The last thousand feet up the lower emmonds glacier to camp started by picking our way between crevasses. We crossed numerous cleaves in the ice, none more than a couple feet wide but all of them terribly deep.
There were a couple of puckery moments, but all in all the team did very well. Glad we were all roped in.
Time for bed.. In fact, sounds like they're all zonked out already.
They sure earned a good nights sleep.
Xoxo
- cb
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note from matt: the photo is one i grabbed off of google. but it is camp schurman.
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