That’s Mount Elinor/Mount Ellinor (located in the Olympic National Forest) at the top – taken from the final staging area:
This is my nephew Nick with me admiring Mount Rainier in the distance from the final staging area:
Headed up The Chute with Lake Cushman in the background… Right above where this picture was taken you have to start scrambling essentially straight up the cliff face:
I snapped these pictures on the way up The Chute. Yeah, that is the kind of terrain we’re climbing straight up:
I was the first one to make it into this bowl and startled a mountain goat that was hanging out in here:
This is the back side of the bowl:
I climbed out along the edge of this cliff for quite a ways before realizing that I was setting a bad example for Nick and turning back:
More pictures I took on the relentless climb up:
Another view of Rainier:
Success! Me on the Elinor/Ellinor summit at 5,944 Feet:
The view from the top:
The spotting scope allowed us to get some great views of Seattle:
Life can survive practically anywhere:
Starting back down:
We took a much easier route down the mountain:
Quintessential Pacific Northwest:
U R awesome!!
What a beautiful place… Great photos bro! ~M~