October Powder » Last But Not Least, Tracks
Last but not least, tracks.
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- Watching the clouds shift from valley to valley.
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- Obviously finding a parking spot wasn’t going to be the hardest part.
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- Dustings of snow speckled the trail giving us reason to anticipate higher elevations.
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- Although we found ourselves just under the cloud layer in Spray Park, it was only temporarily.
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- Freshly fallen snow revealed signs of a Ptarmigan crossing.
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- Kyle making his way up a talus field.
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- Other than a few areas, the glacial remnant appeared to be in good condition.
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- Wind howls around this prominent point directing it to the east towards Echo rock.
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- Echo Rock, standing between the Flett and Russell glaciers, acts as a wind block forcing much of the blowing snow to deposit on the Flett.
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- Kyle observes the glacier, dwarfed by Echo Rock.
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- Making our way over to the Russell glacier.
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- Nothing but a rain shadowed window of opportunity.
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- Author observes the Mountain playing Hide-and-Seek with the Russell glacier. (Picture by Kyle Miller)
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- Kyle heading back to do what we came to do.
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- Something straight out of Hoth, Kyle makes his way across the desolate planet without his Tauntaun.
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- The entire mountain was slowly being devoured by clouds.
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- Kyle makes his way down, observed by the rock (pun intended).
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- The Willis Wall bares it all in a moment of glory as Kyle rides by and admires.
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- The author paying homage to the magnitude of Rainier. (Picture by Kyle Miller)
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- Kyle gets his turns in on Cloud 9.
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- Kyle milking the good stuff.
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- Author climbs up for more turns. (Picture by Kyle Miller)
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- Kyle Miller shredding the early season powder on the Flett Glacier – MRNP
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- Kyle probing the questionable areas.
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- Said the glacier worms to the backcountry skiers.
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- Powder deposit below one of the few cracks on the Flett.
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- The cave’s entrance provided a lot of light for exploration.
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- Kyle checks out the glacial ice formations within the cave.
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- The dense glacial ice gave a particularly bright refraction of light.
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- Ice formations.
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- Ice formations.
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- Kyle crawls army style to avoid falling further down into another dark chasm.
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- Cave and dark chasm.
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- Tracks.
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- Again, tracks.
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- Last but not least, tracks.
