[awilsondc]

mighty mountains tall stand guard as silent sentries welcoming me home

Dawn light and distant peaks

4:10 alpine start some breakfast while I pack up headlamp shows the way the trail goes easy when there's nothing but your breath and darkness surrounds a fork in the trail dawn breaks and my goal is near Yellow Aster Butte

Dawn colors emerge

Shuksan

Baker

The tarns

Shuksan and Baker catch the early morning light and I am content

Dawn

sunrise, colors fade illuminate my next goal Tomyhoi is next

Sunrise

First Light

First light on Tomyhoi

tarns reflect the sky Baker provides the back drop what a lovely place

Exploring the tarns

Larrabee reflected

These tarns are nice

Baker towers over everything out here

High country

microspikes and axe I'm sure glad that I brought them the snow was sketchy final summit block North Cascades classic scramble the reason I came

Gendarmes

Nearing the glacier

Looking back at the snow finger I crossed

Summit block

Final scramble

summit to myself majestic peaks all around this never gets old PHOTOSPHERE: click and drag to move, mouse wheel to zoom

Pickets? Anyone know what that lobster claw on the left is? McMillian Spires? I wanna climb it

Rexford

fall colors are out or at least they are starting and berries were ripe I took my sweet time and savored every moment pictures say the rest

Loveliness

Shuksan towering over hikers

Circle tarn

Shuksan over a tarn

Last look back at Tomyhoi

Snag

[Pyrites]

Haiku. Thumbs up. Since recent Mt Alberta report I'm still confused as to what 'scrambling' means. I thought I knew.

[Fletcher]

Nice job dude! Tomyhoi is a great peak.

[silence]

Beautiful pix and wonderful haikus ... plus just a great time to be up there!! Apparently, it's also a place that inspires poetry.. I wrote this years ago after an autumn backpack to the lake basin: talking to the wind her silence broken … by the flap of raven’s wing as he brushes past her ear and whispers old stories by the wail of coyote’s sorrow as he pierces valley stillness and cries in love forlorn by the shadow of a great-horned owl as he swoops across the starry sky and screeches out a warning by the burnt leaf of autumn as it quakes in evening’s last light and mourns of summers loss by the lonely sentinel in the night as it guards the distant ridge and sings in quiet unison … she stands on mountain high talking to the wind

[iron]

mac spires they are. pickets are nice. hope for soft snow.

[puzzlr]

Love the photosphere. I'd take a lot more of these, but it's hard to keep the camera in the same spot for so many shots. My stitching rarely comes out as seamless as yours.

[Jim Dockery]

Great haiku and photos

[awilsondc]

Thanks guys, and iron for the peak ID confirmation. I like the poem silence! Really illuminates some of the more beautiful experiences of being in the back country. puzzlr - I use my smart phone and google's street view app for making the photospheres. I've used google camera in the past, but it doesn't stitch as well. I've learned to be very patient and slow when creating these, and sometimes they still don't stitch quite right. This one took 2 tries.

[joker]

"Dawn" is a very nice pano of that area.

[pcg]

Well done! You've inspired me to explore Tomyhoi and try my hand at some haiku. Smoke fills the skies Trails and roads are closing. Go north to scramble. So Yellow Aster beckons to go beyond to Tomyhoi. Larrabee next?

[RichP]

Love your pics. They show so much texture.

[D. Inscho]

Great report on a beautiful location. Went by that TH just yesterday and it was nuts parking. It will calm down once the snows sog the meadows and gray the skies. Thanks for the creative report. Happy trails.

[ozzy]

Nice baggers man! Hit those last year, that ridge scramble is alot of fun! That view is what inspired me to climb Larrabee. Awesome pics too!

[pipedream]

[awilsondc]