Mt. Shasta Advanced Winter Mountaineering - Feb 25-27, 2005

Looking at Casaval Ridge, our approach path for the weekend. We camped on a shoulder that you can barely make out between the two tallest trees.
Photo by Eric Smith

The group before we set off on Friday morning.

The mountain lays before us on our approach.
Photo by Eric Smith

Friday was a beautiful day. If you look closely, you can just make out a couple people ahead of our group.

Pausing for a break. Notice the overloaded pack and the angle of my body against the snow? I'm standing upright. It was quite a slope we were climbing.
Photo by Eric Smith.

Once we got to our campsite location, we had to dig a level, sheltered space for the tents.

A beautiful sunset Friday evening.

Saturday morning. A cloud layer has moved in below us. Two guys climbing up with skis in the foreground. It's about 7:30 in the morning and pretty darn chilly.

You can see how chilly it is by how we're all dressed.
Photo by Eric Smith

Somewhere down there is the town of Shasta.

Dave giving us a lesson on rope travel.
Photo by Eric Smith

Keith making an adjustment with our campsite down the slope a bit.
Photo by Eric Smith

Closer shot of our campsite. The built up area in the background is our sheltered privy area. You have to pack all solid waste off of the mountain so this just provides us with a bit of privacy and some protection from the wind.
Photo by Eric Smith

Taking a break and belaying me up.

Weather starting to come in.