alanjay

Tom Looks as though I just missed you. Thanks for letting people know about my ongoing one-man human-powered photo project of our Cascade Glaciers. I'll be adding photos from last summer and this year to my glacier blog titled: LOCAL ICE: Photographing Cascade Glaciers Before They Disappear. The blog is at: http://alankearneyphotography.blogspot.com The above photo of the Challenger Glacier was shot in 1992 and in 2014. Red arrows show the snout of the glacier and where more rock is exposed. Hope to see you out there someday. Alan

Trip: Inspiration Peak, Southern Pickets - Northeast Buttress, New Route Date: 7/20/1996 Trip Report: As I never reported this climb anywhere, I thought it was time. Alex Bertulis, Mark Fielding and Russian climbers Sergei Efimov and Alexei Lebedehin first climbed the North Face of Inspiration in 1977. And since the North Face was repeated in 2004, there may be a spike in Pickets activity. Dana Hagin and I put up the adjacent Northeast Buttress climb by approaching from the Inspiration/West McMillan saddle, with a couple rappels and down climbing. We then traversed a ledge westward to gain the buttress, about 500 feet above the glacier on the north side. From there it was mostly enjoyable climbing, with maybe one pitch of 5.10-, a scary loose pitch, a bivy on a good ledge, and the summit on day two. The descent was down the West Ridge of Inspiration. For the complete story and more quality photos go to: blog