Mount Hood: Summit Ski via Palmer Glacier (April 98)
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Sunrise on Mount Hood
Morning Runs on the Lifts
Skiing Up the Palmer Glacier
Steaming Fumaroles in the Crater
The Hogsback of Mount Hood
The Summit of Mount Hood
View North of the Eliot Glacier
Our Group on Summit of Mount Hood
Looking Down at Timberline
Skiing Above the Bergschrund on Hood
Upper Terminal of the Palmer Lift
Evening Light on Mount Hood
As we passed Crater Rock (10560 ft / 3220 m) on its right (east) side, the smell of sulfurous fumes grew strong. Steaming fumaroles had melted the snow along the edge of Crater Rock and also in the large area on our right below Steel Cliff, known as Devil's Kitchen. In years past, the fumaroles of Devil's Kitchen had melted deep pits through the thick glacial ice, and any fall here would have been quite hazardous. Nowadays, the ice has thinned greatly, and Devil's Kitchen is no more than a twenty foot drop down a moderate slope.
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