Pink mountain heather (Phyllodoce empetriformis).
Paradise Park.
Skyline Trail, Paradise Park.
A marmot perched above its den.
The Tatoosh Range: Unicorn (7,709'), The Castle (6,640'), Pinnacle (6,562'), and Plumber (6,370') Peaks.
Scarlet paintbrush (Castilleja miniata).
A marmot drinking morning dew from a lupine leaf.
Skyline Trail, Paradise Park.
The Skyline Trail with the Tatoosh Range in the background.
Skyline Trail, Paradise Park.
The Tatoosh Range with Goat Rocks and Mount Adams (12,281') on the horizon.
The base of the Nisqually Glacier.
Mount Rainier's Nisqually and Wilson Glaciers.
Icefall on the Nisqually Glacier.
View to the east from the Muir Snowfield.
Mount Rainier's Nisqually and Wilson Glaciers.
A basecamp option just to the west of Moon Rocks.
Fast changing weather on Mount Rainier's summit.
Mount Adams (12,281') behind Stevens, Tatoosh, Boundary, Unicorn and Foss Peaks.
Mount Rainier (14,411') from the Muir Snowfield.
Weather moving in on the Muir Snowfield.
The hike to Camp Muir from the Muir Snowfield.
Camp Muir.
The Muir Shelter at Camp Muir.
The Muir Snowfield with the Tatoosh Range in the clouds.
Basecamp at Camp Muir.
Sunrise from 14,000 feet.
The last push up to the East Crater.
Sunrise from a snowfield above the Dissapointment Cleaver.
The rim of the East Crater.
Sunrise from the crater.
Ice formations in the crater.
Steam on the west aspect of the crater's rim.
Looking into the crater from Columbia Crest.
Mount Adams (12,281') in the distance from Columbia Crest.
Columbia Crest, the summit.
View to the east from the summit.
Mount Adams (12,281') from the summit.
West rim of the crater.
Little Tahoma Peak (11,138') from the snowfield above the Dissapointment Cleaver.
Emmons Glacier.
Little Tahoma Peak (11,138').
Ladder bridge above the Cleaver.
Ingraham Glacier.
Ingraham Glacier with Little Tahoma Peak (11,138') on the left.
A small crevasse typical of the route.
Ingraham Glacier.
Ingraham Glacier crevasses and basecamp.
Seracs (house size blocks of ice) on Ingraham Glacier.
Camp Muir from Cathedral Gap.
A field of lupine (Lupinus perennis) in Paradise Park.
Lupine (Lupinus perennis).
Western anemone (Anemone occidentalis).
Nisqually and Wilson Glaciers.
The Tattoosh Range with Mount Adams (12,281') on the horizon.