Baker, Easton Glacier, July 1997: Best Basecamp Award


Here is a short summary of the Brotherhood of Ice and Pain's climb on Mt Baker I wrote just after we were done.
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We had a great climb on Baker - it was more interesting than I expected - the crevasses were more like Rainier than Hood.
 Perfect weather, perfect skiing (for those who knew how - not me!), sunlight reflecting off Puget Sound, marmots and a ptarmigan, etc...

Our base camp was at the last grove of trees at the top of the "Railroad Grade" - the west lateral moraine of the lower third (abalation zone) of the Easton Glacier.  It competes with the Shuksan Fisher Chimneys base camp as the best ever...for the views from Puget Sound to Glacier Peak to the N. Cascades, the "throne", and the company:  left-to-right: Glenn Widener, Brian Conley,  Bill Sanders, Adam Munhall, David Shapiro, and Dirk Baron.
 
 

saddle up  David's stream crossing

looking up the route  the trudge up

roping up for the crevasses  Sherman Peak

the Roman Wall - final path to the summit area  successful summit team

Brian at the summit  walking back from the summit

the view from basecamp  Mazama Park from camp

the morning after