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

We unroped and removed our crampons at the saddle, since the rest of the climb followed a long ridge of pumice and ash to the summit. Unfortunately, this ridge was snowfree now in midsummer, and the wind whipped ash into our eyes and mouths as we climbed. Looking back down the ridge we again see Sitkum Spire, the saddle, and the Scimitar Glacier.
(Photo by Bede Pittenger)