Designer, builder, mediocre mountaineer.

Mt St Helens

#outdoors#cascades 2017

46.191, -122.194

A lazy skin tour and camp under falling snow, before climbing to the crater rim and a 4,000’ splitboard powder run on a bluebird day.

My third summit in the #Cascades, after Mt Shasta and Mt Lassen.

A lone skin track winding through snow-laden firs under a flat grey skyA bootpack threading past small pines toward the mountain, its summit wrapped in cloudWind-sculpted drifts climbing toward the upper slopes in morning lightLooking into the snow-filled crater from the rim, Spirit Lake and blast-zone ridges beyondSki tracks lacing the mountain’s rolling lower flanks under a blue sky
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