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

Finally by 2 PM, we were ready to ski down. The other party of three went first, but they traversed around to skier's right, following the safer but bumpier boot track of the ascent route. I wanted to ski straight down the fall line, a fine 45-degree slope which unfortunately led straignt to the bergschrund. However, by angling slightly to skier's left, it had appeared (during the ascent) to be possible to cross the bergschrund safely where it narrowed to less than a foot wide. So I took the plunge... only 5000 feet below lay Timberline Lodge.