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 panorama of the entire 4 mile (6 km) long Emmons Glacier was taken from the same spot as the previous photo, but looking in the opposite direction. The Emmons has the largest area (4.3 square miles / 11 square km) of any glacier in the contiguous United States. At far left is the debris-covered terminus below the flank of Goat Island Mountain. The 11138 ft (3395 m) satellite peak of Little Tahoma dominates the center of the photo. The Emmons Glacier flows from the summit dome of Rainier visible at upper right. The rocky edge beside the Inter Glacier on which I am standing is visible at right. From here, we descended the rocky trail 200 feet on foot to reach the Emmons below, then skied up the clearly visible path around open crevasses to Camp Schurman, located just out of sight at the right edge of the photo.

(NOTE: This image is 1000 pixels wide! Panorama with 170-degree field of view from east-northeast through southwest, digitally composited from eight photographs.)