[Scrooge]

You all please feel free to ignore this, because I'm really doing it for my own benefit. I make so many trips to Big Four that I get very confused about what I have in my files, what I've reported on, and when any of it occurred. As I continue to study the Ice Caves and admire the waterfalls (and report on the process), I find that I frequently want to refer back to earlier reports. To that end, this is intended as a personal Table of Contents. Big Four Ice Caves 2007 1. File: Ice Caves 07-03-07 ..... Report: Big Four waterfalls 07-03-07 https://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7960691&highlight=Big+four+ice+caves

The new "bridge" over the Stillaguamish

Big Four western waterfalls

Snow arch framing central Big Four waterfalls

Big Four avalanche cone and falls

Big Four Falls, lower section

Moat and arch verticle pan

Moat verticle pan

Snow cave 2

What happens to snow caves

2. File: Ice Caves 07-25-07 ..... Report: Big Four, again 07-25-07 https://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7961214&highlight=Big+four+ice+caves

Ice Girl and Trinity approach snow bridge

A matter of scale: Trinity exits the snow bridge.

Snow cave waterfall

Snow cave entrance pan

What's in a name? ..... Ice Girl

Trinity

3. File: Big Four 08-14-07 ..... Report: Big Four melt, 08-14-07 https://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7961722&highlight=big

Snow cave entrance breakdown

Snow cave and waterfall

Tip of avalanche cone and the ice column from the right, giving some hint of the way the tip is undercut.

Ice column from the tip of the cone. I simply didn't dare to go right up to the edge.

View of the ice column and waterfall from the lefthand edge of the cone.

x.......

Snow cave waterfall - vertical pan - In spite of appearances, it is not a faulty stitch.

Ice Cave matrix - The size is deceptive. The people are standing well outside the cave. Actual height about twenty feet.

4. B4 again 09-02-07 ..... Report: Big Four, rediscovered 09-02-07 https://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7962075&highlight=Big+Four+rediscovered

Ants

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Inner Ice Cave, tweaked hard

Moulin drain in Ice Cave, tweaked hard

x........

Waterfall above/behind avalanche cone ....... Again, scale is impossible. That's about a 200 foot section of falls.

Overhanging tip of the avalanche cone

Avalanche cone, righthand moat and tip

5. File: Ice Cave 09-25-07 ..... "Report": Big Four update 09-25-07 (This is actually just a single post in the "Show us your glacier observations" thread). https://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20143&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=45

Ice Cave waterfall vpan

Ice Cave waterfall

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Photographer

Ice Cave

6. File: B4 raft 10-23-07 ..... Report: Fall runoff at Big Four 10-23-07 https://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7963032&highlight=Big+four+ice+caves

1. Big Four 10-23-07 ....... All that fresh snow on a warm Indian Summer day made for incredible runoff.

x.........Pardon the blue-tinted pictures. I never did find out if I'd just joggled a setting, or what. Instead, I got a new camera for Christmas.

Raft & X'ng log

Former bridges

4.Water wall pan

11.Snow caveD pan

15.1.Snow caveD waterfall

13.Water wall detail

7. File: B4 raft sale 11-23-07 ..... Report: Big Four "bridge" out, again 11-23-07 https://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7963030&highlight=big+four+raft Yeah. My camera still has the "blues". It wasn't just a joggled setting, so this will be its last appearance. ........ It's done a good job for me.

Bridge pan. One log remaining after the floods.

Somebody even rigged a handline, but today the log is coated with ice and no one is using it. ......... Actually, one woman tried; I wound up giving her a ride in my raft.

Ice Caves Trail

Hoar frost

Big Four Waterfall in early snow.

Icy waterwall. That's fresh snow and the falls are frozen.

Ice Cave entrance pan

Ice Cave wall art (this is old ice).

Cave ice. Anywhere in the cave that would normally just be wet, today was frozen. This is a spot where drops would fall from the ceiling, but then freeze when they hit the floor.

B&W - Cathedral Room waterfall. Although the walls and floor are coated with ice, there is still water coming down the falls.

.............................................. Okay. I just wanted to get that part "hardwired", before I screwed something up and lost it. I'll be coming back to add some pictures, to help define each section .......... and perhaps to add a smidgen of general interest.

[The Angry Hiker]

Reminds me...I gotta get up there and spray-paint that "4" on the side of the mountain again. People are starting to complain that they can't see it anymore.

[bobbi]

[Hulksmash]

humm....that "new bridge" was not there last weekend. Did some one cut the trees to make the "new bridge". If they did i sure hope they logged out the rest of the trail.

[Scrooge]

Check the title of this thread, Hulk. The "new bridge" is history (although that'll be more obvious in a couple of sections).