View of Mt Rainier from Paradise A Sea of Clouds below Camp Muir Camp Muir Pinnacle Looking Up at Gibraltar Rock The Climbing Route to Cathedral Gap Dawn in the Summit Crater View Across the Summit Crater Liberty Cap from the Crater Rim Looking Down on Grand Park The Final Steps to the Summit Self-Portrait on the Summit View of St Helens from the Summit View of the Crater from the Summit Descending the Upper Ingraham Glacier Overhanging Serac Panorama of the Ingraham Glacier Traversing Below the Cleaver Crevasse on the Ingraham Glacier Camp Muir from Cathedral Gap The Three Summits of Mt Rainier

Our descent was swift, and soon we were in sight of Camp Muir (at center), here looking south from Cathedral Gap across the Cowlitz Glacier. We reached camp by 11:30 AM, rested a bit, and then packed up and prepared to descend the Muir Snowfield back to Paradise. I sprinted down the soft snow, and charged past the tourists on the paved trails below, making it back to the parking lot in just over an hour.