While I’m currently enjoying sunny, warm Las Vegas, climbing in Red Rocks and working for The Mountain Guides, I recently found myself revisiting my photos from this summer, guiding my first season on Mt. Baker. This post is a gallery of photos, in no particular order, highlighting life on the mountain: beautiful views, lots of sunrises and sunsets, summit bids, and playing around in crevasses.
Looking down at the lower Coleman glacier in mid-September. The snow has melted off the glacier, exposing the broken-up glacier ice below.
Inside a crevasse on the Squak glacier. This morning, our group opted not to make a summit attempt due to weather, and instead spent the morning hiking up the glacier to find a suitable crevasse to practice crevasse rescue systems and ice climb inside the crevasse.
A student on an Alpinism 1 trip looking at a large crevasse, shortly after sunrise on the Squak glacier. We stepped over the crevasse at a narrower point.
Two AAI groups on their way up to the summit, pre-dawn on the Coleman glacier.
Looking up at the Squak glacier route in September. All the textured gray patches on the snow are exposed alpine ice and crevasses.
Looking up at the hogsback headwall in mid-August. By this time of the summer, the snow has melted on the majority of the headwall, and dry camp sites open up higher and higher at Hogsback camp.
Climbing out of a narrow crevasse on the Coleman glacier. This one was super narrow and felt like chimney climbing.
A student on an 3-day Baker climb taking in the view during a summit-attempt morning on the Coleman glacier.
My tent (“Kermit”) set up at Hogsback camp, with a perfect view of the west side of Mt Baker.
Sunset at camp on the Squak glacier during an AAI Alpinism 1 course.
Wildflowers along the trail up to Hogsback camp on the north side of the mountain.
Water flowing off the Coleman glacier, looking north off the mountain into Canada.
Possibly my favorite photo from my summer guiding Mt. Baker routes. Looking down Pumice Ridge (on the Coleman-Deming route) during sunrise, watching my team climb up the slope.
Walking across the summit plateau to the final hill. One person is standing on the very top, for scale.
Thanks for viewing! I’ll be back in Washington this summer to guide a second season with American Alpine Institute. I’m looking forward to coming back equipped with all the knowledge I learned last year from glacier guiding and my recent guide training courses. I’m especially looking forward to guiding a greater variety of AAI programs, like our alpine rock climbing courses.
I’m so grateful for the students I had the honor of guiding last season, and the experiences we shared on Mt. Baker last summer. I can’t wait to return to this beautiful mountain to continue learning and growing as a guide.
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