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Glacier Peak via Disappointment Cleaver

Objective hazard or subjective hazard?
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After escaping the glacier quicksand
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Date: 2009/08/21 to 2009/08/23
Trip type: glacier climb
Elevation gain: approx. 8,380 feet
USGS quad: Glacier Peak East
In area: North Cascades
Car-to-car time: 2 days 6 hours 14 minutes
  • 2 hours 12 minutes driving there from Capitol Hill to North Fork Sauk trail head
  • 9 hours 34 minutes ascending from North Fork Sauk trail head to Glacier Gap camp
  • 4 hours 43 minutes ascending from Glacier Gap camp to Summit of Glacier Peak
  • 3 hours descending from Summit of Glacier Peak to Glacier Gap camp
  • 1 hour 58 minutes descending from Glacier Gap camp to Second camp, north of point 6770
  • 5 hours 51 minutes descending from Second camp, north of point 6770 to North Fork Sauk trail head

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Dispiriting evening weather at Glacier Gap camp
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Kopeetah Divide from Glacier Gap
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Morning light on Kololo Peaks
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Glacier Peak
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Glacier Peak
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Ascending the Gerdine Glacier
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The loose slopes right below the summit
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Yay! On the summit of Glacier Peak
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Descending the Cool Glacier
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Kololo Peaks
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Glacier Peak
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Second camp, north of point 6770
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