Index of Pictures

  After a rainy night hike in, we awoke to clear skies the next morning for the climb up Spider Glacier. This is the view back down to Spider Meadow, the 1st night's camp. Ascending up the flanks of Red Mountain on our way to Spider Glacier. Daryl making her way up Spider Glacier, a finger of ice guarded on each side by steep rocky cliffs. Daryl again showing off her ability to not fall in a crevasse. The trekking poles that I left sitting in my closet may have proved useful for this section. The climb up Spider Glacier finishes at Spider Gap, a ring of rocky crags dropping off to deep basins on all sides.  

  After Spider Gap, we made a harrowing descent down another steep glacier. Throughout this, I continuously cursed myself for forgetting the poles. Anyhow, this dropped us down into Lyman Lakes Basin. Here's upper Lyman Lake and Lyman Glacier...quite surreal. Another shot of Lyman Glacier flowing into the upper lake. The tundra-like landscape of Lyman Basin. More of Lyman Basin. Meadows near Cloudy Pass.  

  Cloudy Pass meadows with the rugged range of mountains we'd come over the day before as a backdrop. For a couple seconds the clouds broke open around the peaks, and the Sun lit up the meadow. It was one of the most stunning scenes I've ever witnessed. Another shot from Cloudy Pass. These pictures really don't do it justice. In fact, they're downright ugly. Classic U-shaped valley seen between Cloudy and Suiattle Passes. Plummer Mountain Daryl during the ascent up to Buck Creek Pass (the last night's camp). During this final climb the trail contoured along a steep ridge through some of the most beautiful meadows of the entire hike.  

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