Live in Sunset Amphitheater (Act I) » Sunset Amphitheater Headwall Coulior
Entrance to the coulior.
After crossing the bergshrund, the coulior takes a steep and direct line up to the Sunset Ridge.
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- Sunset Amphitheater
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- Entrance to the coulior.
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- Matt Sheets demonstrates the capabilities of his sleeping bag, giving him catepiller superpowers.
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- Perfect slip layer to prevent blisters…plus they’re sexy! ;)
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- Nisqually Glacier.
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- Brad Kwasnowski maintains a safe distance from the Wilson glacier ice cliffs.
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- Back towards the Wilson/Nisqually.
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- A lenticular cap forms as we make our way around the mountain.
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- A point release avy.
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- Cool cloud.
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- Cooler cloud.
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- Coolest cloud.
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- Matt Sheets navigates between the lower ice falls…
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- …and the upper ice falls on the Kautz glacier.
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- Brad Kwasnowski smiles a sigh of relief.
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- Quickly crossing the sun affected slopes of the Success glacier.
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- Brad Kwasnowski dwarfs Rainier.
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- Matt Sheets demonstrates how easy it is to climb Rainier…only one more move and you’re there!
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- Author picks the loose debris off the mountain with a gigantic ice tool.
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- South Tahoma Glacier.
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- Lower South Tahoma Glacier.
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- South Tahoma Headwall and Success Cleaver. Success Couliors barely visible on the far right of photo.
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- Mt. Adams.
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- Mt. St. Helens.
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- The shadow of Rainier cast across the eastern skyline.
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- A rock carin marking our bivy spot the first night on the Success Cleaver.
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- Watching the sun set with the Olympics and the Puget Sound as a backdrop.
