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Mt Baker Climb 09'
Jorma and Ron on the Heliotrope trail… heading up to the Mt Baker Coleman/Deming summit route.
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Ice crystals on the trail from the night before. Suddenly feeling like summer is over.
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Roosevelt and Coleman glaciers on Mt Baker.
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Mt Baker… nice sunny day.
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Ice crystals.
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On the glacier… another party heading down.
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Basecamp below the Black Buttes. Summit route is through the glaciers to the saddle on the right, then up to the summit via the Roman wall.
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Sunset
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Jorma and Ron.
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Clear calm night…. heavy winds soon picked up after dark.
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Waking to morning clouds… more weather moving in.
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Very strong wind gusts at camp, and heavy winds viewable at the summit… summit attempt is off.
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Crazy fractal clouds.
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Mt Baker with weather front coming in strong and fast.
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Mt Baker and Colfax peak.
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Amazing clouds…
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Ron and Jorma, getting ready to head down before the weather hits.
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Ron taking a look down into the frozen blue abyss.
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Crevasse on Mt Baker.
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Whiteout on top of Baker… glad we didn't try to summit.
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Weather getting worse… first storm of Autumn has arrived.
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Storm clouds.
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Anybody know what this plant is called?
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Creek on Heliotrope trail.
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