View of Rainier from the Trail Map of Emmons Glacier Ski Route Skiing Up the River Valley Inter Glacier and the Summit Inter Glacier and White River Valley View across the Inter Glacier Emmons Glacier Panorama Traverse down to Emmons Glacier Camp Schurman Hustle and Bustle Last Rays on the Summit A Fox Invades the Camp Dawn and Crescent Moon Climbing the Emmons Corridor A Serac Ready to Fall... Climbing the Upper Emmons Glacier Seracs at the Bergschrund Traverse Below the Bergschrund Bergschrund Crossing Panorama Final Steps to the Crater Rim Rainier Summit Photo Panoramic View South from Summit Panorama of the Main Crater Skiing Down the Upper Winthrop Glacier Skiing Below Seracs on the Emmons Last Light on the Seracs Skiing Past Little Tahoma Descent of the Emmons Corridor Camp Schurman in the Morning Skiing the Lower Emmons Glacier Traverse Back to the Inter Glacier A Fine View from the Inter Glacier Skiing Down the Inter Glacier Skiing Down the Inter Glacier 2 Skiing Through Glacier Basin The Summit and the White River View of Rainier from Sunrise Zoomed View of the Climbing Route Zoomed View of Rainier from Sunrise

This is the actual crossing near the west end of the bergschrund, above a large bowl at the head of the Winthrop Glacier, with the 13720 ft false summit of Curtis Ridge visible at right. A 4 foot vertical overhanging lip provided a sizeable obstacle when climbing with skis on the pack. Jim has already scrambled over this, while Tom and I decided to head right a hundred feet to a much easier crossing. The two others visible above the bergschrund are a pair of telemark skiers, who had been showering us with frozen snow chunks as they skied down the icy slope above. (Those two telemarkers were the only other skiers, out of over 50 people who summited by the Emmons route that day.) They took off their skis at this point and hiked the tricky traverse section. During our descent, we skied (jumped) over the lip here and continued down for a short bit before also removing our skis and hiking.

(Panorama with 50-degree field of view, digitally composited from two photographs.)