Looking Up at Glacier Basin Sunset from Glacier Basin Moon Over Sloan Peak Morning View of Mts Baker and Shuksan Morning View of Mt Rainier Sitkum Spire with Mts Baker and Shuksan Climbing the Ridge above Sitkum Spire View of the Suiattle Glacier View Across to the Summit Glacier Peak Crater Panorama At the Summit of Glacier Peak Terminus of the Sitkum Glacier

We left the White Chuck River trailhead (2300 ft) on a sunny and warm Saturday morning, following the rolling trail for 5 miles to Kennedy Hot Springs. We ate a quick lunch and took the foot bridge across the river for a glance at the cloudy water of the hotsprings, then headed up a steep series of switchbacks to join the Pacific Crest Trail. After a short distance, a very steep climbers trail heads east up a ridge, with exposed tree roots providing much-needed hand and foot-holds along the badly eroded path. When the trail finally leveled out near 5200 ft, we had a fine view up past Boulder Basin to the lower reaches of the Sitkum Glacier, which would be our route to the summit the next day.
(Photo by Bede Pittenger)