Mt. Adams 07/08/12

Andrew and Karen invited me up to climb Mt. Adams.  With Heath and his wife for a BCEP reunion of sorts.

Here is the my tent on the Lunch Counter,  Mt. Hood in the background.  

 

There were over 200 people scheduled to climb Mt. Adams this weekend, but the Lunch Counter where we camped still had plenty of room.  

 

Here a shot I got of Mt. St. Helens at sunset from our camp.

We are climbing now, t-shirt weather for all day except for the summit.  I also met some friends that had climbed early in the day (Parker's group), and a group that had climbed Mazama Glacier on Friday and were leaving Saturday.

This is the false summit called Piker's Peak, but we are close to the top.

Here is my summit shot, Mount Rainier in the background.

Here is the summit shot of our group.  I think we made good time, in under four hours from the Lunch Counter to the summit of Mt. Adams elevation 12,281 ft.

The best part of the trip was coming down, there was a long glissade of 3,000 feet.   Some of the pictures are taken by my climb team and are copyrighted.