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Cruising around Seattle before heading out to Ashford, WA.
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Public Market Center in Seattle, near the water front.
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Space Needle. They wanted sixteen dollars to go up the thing. I opted to take pictures of it from the ground for free.
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Space Needle.
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Space Needle.
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Space Needle.
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Rainbow.
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Water.
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More water.
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Even more water.
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On our drive out to Paradise - the start of the hike.
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We stopped to put chains on the tire. This simple operation ended up taking about twenty minutes, because they had the wrong chains and they came off three times. I love competence.
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Putting on the chains.
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The road ahead.
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Bad weather stopped our ascent the first day so we set up camp instead. It started to snow a bit.
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We had to dig holes for the tents and build walls. I love playing in the snow.
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The was the City Center Pizzeria. They were only serving hot water, however.
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The guide's tent. I think that they got a nicer tent than the rest of us.
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Me.
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Me again.
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I'm not sure what he is doing. It's no doubt important though. He IS a guide, you know.
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Hanging out, proud of our tent-raising accomplishment.
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The tents started getting covered in snow. Our tent started out inside-out, which explained why we were a few minutes behind the rest of the group in setting up our tent.
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Hanging out.
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The next morning at 6am we started getting ready to hike up to Camp Muir.
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More snow.
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Even more snow.
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We got above the clouds and it was very much a nice day, all things considered.
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Its a very happy thing to drop ones sixty pound pack.
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That's one of our guides on the left. He skied down from Camp Muir to Paradise in seven minutes. It took us ten hours to walk up the same distance.
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More snow.
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More snow.
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An impressive hill in front of us.
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The hill.
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Our other two guides.
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The clouds that are now below us.
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Some of our group, lagging behind.
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One of the other mountains in the area, peaking (ha ha) out from the clouds.
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Camp Muir is just above that next bend ... hours away.
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Snow being blown around at higher elevations.
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The clouds below.
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That's either Adams or Baker.
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More clouds.
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Clouds and a mountain.
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Clouds and a mountain.
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Sunset our first night at Camp Muir.
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Sunset our first night at Camp Muir. That's our trail back down the mountain.
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Sunset our first night at Camp Muir.
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Sunset our first night at Camp Muir.
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Sunset our first night at Camp Muir.
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Sunset our first night at Camp Muir.
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Sunset our first night at Camp Muir.
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Our first morning at Camp Muir. That's Adams or Baker. Probably Adams.
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Our first morning at Camp Muir.
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Our first morning at Camp Muir.
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Our first morning at Camp Muir.
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Our first morning at Camp Muir.
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Our first morning at Camp Muir.
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Corey, trying to keep warm. At least the wind wasn't blowing.
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Snow getting blown around well above us.
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No more wind.
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Looking up the mountain.
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Looking up the mountain.
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Part of Camp Muir. The main cabin, behind that is the dual out-house, and to the right is the ranger bunker and the guide bunker.
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Looking out from Camp Muir.
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Looking out from Camp Muir.
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The day we attempted to summit. Looking down on the Muir Snowfield, I think.
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Rock climbing at altitude with heavy packs ... oh so fun.
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Looking out on our way up.
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We were way up there. No hand rails, either.
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The two idiots who tried unsuccessfully to kill themselves the day prior, attempted to do so again.
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Looking out on our way up.
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We walked along the snow at the base of this wall. The snow was rather steep.
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We walked along the snow at the base of this wall. The snow was rather steep.
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The guides are checking out the avalanche hazard up above.
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The guides are checking out the avalanche hazard up above.
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This is as high as we're going to get due to the avalanche hazard ahead.
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This is as high as we're going to get due to the avalanche hazard ahead.
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