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| We talked with Adam and Rick for quite a while, waiting to see and take pictures of a TAT plane arriving to pick up some of the other climbers from camp. The climbers and their gear are near the top end of the air strip; our tent is one of those up to the |
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| 'Shaken, Not Stirred.' |
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| Adam and Rick hanging out on the Incisor with Mt. Dickey in the background. |
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| Picnic time on the Incisor. The tiny figure on the rocks is either Adam or Rick. The Incisor is a great point from which to view Mt. Dickey and other peaks along the Great Gorge (the N-S stretch of the Ruth Glacier), watch planes fly by and land on the Ro |
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| Many hours and some 25 or more rappels later, we were back on the approach slope of what had become very rotten snow. |
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| Down and down and down for hours and hours... |
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| Mounts Dickey, Bradley, Wake, Johnson, Grosvenor, and Church (from right to left). |
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| Heading back - note the increasing overcast (pic courtesy of Steve Towne). |
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| Camp down on the Root Canal Glacier at around 7,350' and the Ruth Glacier thousands of feet lower still (pic courtesy of Steve Towne). |
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| Steve on top of the Moose's Tooth! |
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| On the Moose's Tooth corniced main summit (pic courtesy of Steve Towne).
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| Cornice collapse and avalanche. It was quite exciting to hear the rumble and roar (pic courtesy of Steve Towne). |
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| Steepish and kind of loose. Mt. Dickey and Mt. Barrill in the background. |
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| Steve on the corniced summit ridge. |
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| My lead (pic courtesy of Steve Towne). |
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| Time to rehydrate... |
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| Up what Puryear described as 'the 85 degree ice headwall' - buried under steep snow (pic courtesy of Steve Towne). |
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| The top of col is to my left (pic courtesy of Steve Towne). |
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| Looking down past an excellent ice screw to Steve at the belay.
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| Almost above the col - pitch #18? (pic courtesy of Steve Towne). |
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| Steve playing on a thin-ice variation along the left margin of the gully. |
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| Some fuzz high in the sky, but nothing threatening, yet. |
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| Steve cruising in the early afternoon sun. |
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| On the receiving end... |
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| Steve's turn on the sharp end of the rope. |
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