Mt Shasta - July 22-24, 2004

A shot towards the mountain at sunrise on Saturday morning. Note the long shadows from small rocks. The green blob at the bottom is my bivy sack (which I was still in when taking the picture).

Karl and Cindy geared up and ready for crevasse rescue practice.
Photo by John Allen

I'm loaded down for a day of crevasse rescue practice and a bit of ice climbing.

Stopping for water on the way up. We just stuck our bottles in the stream to collect the glacier melt streaming down from above. Just watch out for the silt.
Photo by Kim Grandfield.

We had a bit of a hike across scree and glacial morraine before we reached the snow.
Photo by Kim Grandfield.

The crevasse where we practiced rescues.
Photo by John Allen.

Setup to perform a rescue by just pulling someone straight out w/out any mechanical assist.

Juan down in the crevasse, waiting for the pulley.
Photo by Kim Grandfield.

John getting ready to climb out using ascendors.
Photo by Kim Grandfield.

John took his camera down into the crevasse. Here's a shot looking back up.
Photo by John Allen.

Another shot from inside the crevasse.
Photo by John Allen.

Looking up at where he will be pulled out.
Photo by John Allen.

Another shot from the crevasse.
Photo by John Allen.

It stormed all around us on Saturday evening but we only got a few drops.

Another beautiful sunset on the mountain.
Photo by John Allen.