Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
Sunday, July 22, 2012
* Marcie's 50th Birthday Climb
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| Heading to Hidden Valley from the Bunny Flat Trailhead. |
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| The hike in. |
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| The Alpine Lodge at Horse Camp. |
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| Pure Mount Shasta spring water. |
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| Marcie starts the climb to Hidden Valley. |
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| Arrggggh! |
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| More Arrrrghhh! |
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| The traverse across Giddy Giddy Gulch. |
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| Looking down Giddy Giddy Gulch at the town of Mount Shasta City, Mt. Eddy and the Trinity Alps. |
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| More climbing to get to Hidden Valley. |
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| Marcie drops into Hidden Valley. |
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| The West Face from our camp. |
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| Marcie brews up! |
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| Our Hidden Valley bivy. |
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| West Face Splattski. |
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| Her commemorative 50th birthday helmet sticker. |
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| Getting psyched at sunset. |
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| Shastina, Mt. Shasta and Casaval Ridge at sunset. |
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| On frozen snow at 3:30am. |
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| Higher up the route. |
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| Marcie traverses above Snow White, Sneezy, Dopey, Doc... |
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| Mount Shasta shadow at sunrise Splattski. |
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| Mount Shasta casts her shadow out over Mount Eddy and the Trinity Alps. |
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| Making a short rock traverse under Casaval Ridge to gain the West Face proper. |
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| Guided roped teams start up the West Face. |
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| Enjoying the view at sunrise. |
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| Shadow climbers. |
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| Looking down the West Face from high in the dirty gully. |
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| Marcie tops out the West Face. |
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| Looking across at the summit pinnacle and Misery Hill (right). |
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| A windy snow traverse over to Misery Hill. |
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| Climbing Misery Hill. |
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| Looking down into the Mud Creek Canyon drainage. |
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| A look at Shastina. |
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| The summit plateau. Almost there! |
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| Shasta summit plateau Splattski. |
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| Marcie works her way across the plateau. |
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| I made it! Shasta summit shop. |
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| Marcie gives the big 5 - oh! |
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| Contemplating and savoring the moment. A lot of hard work to get there. |
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| Summit group shop. :) |
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| Birthday kiss! |
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| We left a bead totem in a crack on the summit for whatever Goddess watches over Mount Shasta. We were blessed with perfect weather and given the opportunity to summit. |
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| Signing the register. |
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| Another look at Shastina on the way down. |
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| The guided teams head back to the West Face route for the descent... |
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| ...We chose to slide down Avalanche Gulch on our rears. |
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| One lastlook on the hike out. Until next time Mount Shasta. |
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