2007-06-30 Mt. Ruth scramble pics
Jul. 10th, 2007 11:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eubThis is the Mt. Ruth near Rainier, not the Shuksan one. We came in from the White River trailhead. The first mile or so of trail was washed out and is presently a boulder and log scramble. From Glacier Basin we headed up the S-shaped gully to the ridge, and then it was step-kicking all the way up, except for the last few hundred yards of crumbling rockfield.
From the top we looked down on the Emmons Glacier between us and the north wall of Little Tahoma, and
had a close view of Rainier, of climbers working over the lip of Steamboat Prow, and other specks on the face of the mountain.
We glissaded (fancy French word for "slid on our butts") down about 3100 feet to snowline in half an hour, tops.
Sorry about my camera; it seems to be half-blurry. I particularly regret not being able to get good pics of the crisscrossed crevassing on the Emmons.
From the top we looked down on the Emmons Glacier between us and the north wall of Little Tahoma, and
had a close view of Rainier, of climbers working over the lip of Steamboat Prow, and other specks on the face of the mountain.
We glissaded (fancy French word for "slid on our butts") down about 3100 feet to snowline in half an hour, tops.
Sorry about my camera; it seems to be half-blurry. I particularly regret not being able to get good pics of the crisscrossed crevassing on the Emmons.
