Sacked Out at Glacier Basin Camp

What an epic day. Just when ya thought the climb was over, another very different one began.

We headed down the ingram glacier from camp schurman and had to wind through a maze of seriously deep, wide and scary crevasses. It would have been puckery enough on its own, but I was in lead with most of my family in tow. Steve was a big help but even so...

Anyway, a dozen crevasses a handful of leaps of faith and we were back on solid land so to speak if you call a chossy rubble pile of a prow solid land. I was actually was glad to be wearing crampons on the rock.

And they came in handy once we crested over camp curtis and headed down the inter glacier which appears to have completely changed since we went up it just days ago. The snow slope we practiced self-arrests on is now a sheet of ice and crevasses have opened midway up (though
nothing like what we saw on the lower ingram). It took a long time to pick our way through.

When we got to the base we finally unroped and put away our ice axes. And then we hiked a mile down through glacial rubble before finally making it to the treeline and the trail back to glacier basin camp.

Whew!
I am so impressed at what Dad & Fred accomplished on the mountain. This was an epic adventure. Glaciers, crevasses, snow bridges, ice bridges, travel on very steep terrain over snow, rock amd ice. And by Steve's account the night we spent on the snow ledge was the worst
night out he's ever had. Except for maybe that one night at that bar... Oh nevermind

Well done everyone. Well done. And I can't wait to see the pictures mark took as he flew over our high camp yesterday. Was that just yesterday?!?

Wow. I've got to get some sleep.


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