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.