Designer, builder, mediocre mountaineer.

41.409, -122.195

Summit via Avalanche Gulch. My very first Cascades ascent and first time with crampons and ice axe.

Mt Shasta’s snow-streaked summit wrapped in cloud above a dark pine forestA green tent dug into the snow at high camp, the summit ridge rising behindPanorama from the summit: snowfields and red volcanic rock dropping away to hazy valleys under layered clouds
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