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06 031 Bachelor Creek trail Mt Misch Randy L. (249k)
06 032 Bachelor Ck trail The Steeple Randy L. (201k)
06 034 Spire Point from Bachelor Meadows (237k)
From the ridge line west of Cub Lake, this view is looking northeast at Spire Point and the shrinking West Spire Glacier. The Point was earlier shown on the 1922 Forest Service map as Spire Peak. The twin summits of Spire Point have the interesting geologic distinction of being split down the middle by a contact between metamorphic gneiss on the lesser West Point (left) and igneous granite on the taller East Point (Right).
06 036 Randy L at Mule Lake camp (339k)
On the morning of the second day during the Ptarmigan Traverse, the climbers awoke soaked with dew at the camp on the shore of Mule Lake. Mule Lake (5395ft) lies tucked into the steep hill side of the high cirque at the head of Bachelor Creek. To reach this quaint timber line camp at Bachelor Meadows, the trailhead is nearly fifteen miles down trail at the foot of Downey Creek along the Suiattle River Rd. Darrington District.
06 037 Glacier Peak beyond Cub Lake (225k)
Pictured here is the little baby lake that sits above its larger parent; Itswoot Lake. Itswoot in a Northwest Indian Chinook word meaning Black Bear. This smaller lake with its attractive view of ice covered Glacier Peak is appropriately named Cub Lake. Cub Lake has an interesting water flow in that it has two different outlets. The one shown here that flows to the south and the other outlet is off frame left that drains to the east.
06 038 Across Downey Ck to Buckindy area (269k)
Beyond the lush green sloping expanse of Bachelor Meadows are the glacier clad peaks of the Buckindy-Snowking area. The four highest pks of the Buckindy group from left to right are: Minas Ithil; Minas Anor; Mount Misch; Mount Buckindy. The "Minas" names that reflect the J R R Tolkin theme were first proposed by the Wilson brothers who made many first ascents in the Buckindy area in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
06 039 Dome Pk & Glacier from Bachelor Meadows (239k)
Dome Pk and Dome Glacier from Bachelor Meadows. Of Dome Pk some say, "This magnificent fortress of ice and monolithic rock forms the centerpiece of the Cascade crest N of Glacier Pk".
06 040 Randy L to Spire Point camp Dome Pk (224k)
On the ascent out of Bachelor Meadows the climbers made a rising traverse toward Dome Peak. Dome Pk was first climbed twice in 1936. The July 5th party scaled the Southwest Peak and claimed a first ascent noting that the Northeast Pk was "about the same height." Then on August 1st a second team of peak baggers stood on the Northeast Pk and felt it definitely higher. Both parties believed their respective summit higher.
06 041 Bath Lake Peaks DaKobed Range & Glacier Peak (208k)
Beyond the rugged foreground ridge line of Bath Lake Peaks is the ice clad volcano of Glacier Peak and it's accompanying wild and remote DaKobed Range. The most remote of Cascade volcanoes, Glacier Peak has been dormant since its last major eruption about 13,100 years ago. It is 10,541ft high and contained within the Glacier Peak Wilderness that was created by the US Congress in the original 1964 Wilderness Act.
06 042 Glacier Peak from Spire Pt high camp at sunset (141k)
Glacier Peak is a massive dormant volcano, heavily eroded and covered in glaciers, particularly on its northern and eastern slopes. Its snowy white mass towers in isolation, the highest Cascade peak north of Mount Rainier (14,410 ft.) and south of Mount Baker (10,778 ft.). The Pacific Crest Trail winds around its western slopes, from which the mountain is most easily ascended. Glacier Pk lies within Mt Baker National Forest.
06 043 Near Spire Pt Dome Pk Randy L. (127k)
06 044 Dome Pk & the Dome Glacier from Spire Point (202k)
This view from the top of Spire Point looking east is of Dome Peak and Dome Glacier. The Ptarmigan Traverse foursome who scaled Dome Pk in July 1938 traversed both SE and NW Peaks from right to left as seen here. The climb from Sulphur Ck to the meadows southwest of Dome took an arduous 7.5 hours. After climbing both summits the foursome moved onto the Chickamin Glacier and crossed the ice col on the Dana.
06 045 Spire Point Above High Camp. (185k)
06 047 Metamorphic rock and ice axe (388k)
Metamorphic Rock is the type of rock formed when rocky material experiences intense heat and/or extreme pressure in the crust of the earth. Through the metamorphic process, both igneous rocks and sedimentary rocks can be changed into metamorphic. The heat and pressure do not change the chemical makeup of the parent rocks but they do change the mineral structure and physical properties of those rocks. Encarta
06 049 Warren shows how to glissade (219k)
In the era of the alpenstock and perpetuated by the long ice axe, the three point sitting glissade had a long an illustrious life. With the advent of ever shorter axes the standing glissade was popularized. Later during the information age, the sedentary life style evolved the glissade into a butt slide affair that now had numerous variations. Shown here on the south slope of Spire Point is my personal favorite glissade technique.
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