Looking Up at Glacier Basin Sunset from Glacier Basin Moon Over Sloan Peak Morning View of Mts Baker and Shuksan Morning View of Mt Rainier Sitkum Spire with Mts Baker and Shuksan Climbing the Ridge above Sitkum Spire View of the Suiattle Glacier View Across to the Summit Glacier Peak Crater Panorama At the Summit of Glacier Peak Terminus of the Sitkum Glacier

The best part of the whole climb was the nearly complete solitude. Despite it being a beautiful summer weekend, from the time we left camp before dawn until we were descending the pumice ridge from the summit, we did not see a single other person. I used the very lightweight (1.5 oz / 45 grams), very useful REI Ultrapod micro-tripod to shoot this self-timer summit photo of the three of us, with Mounts Baker and Shuksan again barely visible in the distance.