Salt Lake Valley at dawn
Grizz pointing the way
Pre-dawn over Salt Lake Valley
Falling moon, rising sun
Matt above Salt Lake Valley
A pastel Salt Lake Valley at dawn
First light strikes the Oquirrhs
Dawn creeps up on the Oquirrhs
Dawn
Lee trudging up the hill
Looking toward Ogden
Oquirrhs at sunrise
Hiking up a windswept slope
Wind formations
Tiny little "cornice"
Point of the Mountain panorama
Matt
Up, up, up!
Snow blowing off the ridge
Sharon, Judy, and Grizz push against the wind
Windy sunburst
Windy day!
Windy ridge
Windy rocks
Taking a break
Carved wind crust
Dmitry and Lee above the valley
Freestanding cornice
Dmitry
Rime-covered tree
It looked kind of like Christmas...
Stepping into the light
Stepping into the light cropped
Dustin and Grizz
Cresting a ridge in blustery conditions
Life is beautiful
Talk about rime!
On Draper ridge
Nebo pokes its head above Utah Lake
Lubos and Ammon
Wind does crazy things...
Timpanogos and the Provo-area mountains
Crunching up a steep wind crust
First view of the summit
Me in front of the cirque
We walked a long way...
Leaving the Cowboy Camp
Our trail
Ammon
Trekking through the cirque
Rugged rocks
Looking south
Utah Lake
Cirque wall
Cirque headwall
Matt cresting a ridge
Boulders
Lone Peak
Summit ridge
Our trail, with Matt bringing up the rear
Lower ridge
Looking down the cirque
Grizz and Dustin lead the way
Lubos, Lee, and Judy
Grizz navigating a big snowy boulder that proved to be the crux of the route
Grizz and Dustin
Don't look down! (Kind of reminds me of a toilet...)
Dmitry steps onto the summit
Dustin
Matt making his way
Bad place for a misstep
Looking down on the cirque
Me on the summit
Southern summit, with Box Elder Peak and Mount Timpanogos behind
Summit block
Lined up at a tricky rock climbing problem on the way down
Looking west
Matt on the last step toward the summit
It's a long way down into Bells Canyon
Grizz checking out an alternative to the tricky rock
Matt on the summit
Grizz and Lubos next to a massive cornice
Nice slide, eh?
Me waiting for Matt
Cornices
Matt on the descent
Almost to the summit (Photo by MOCKBA)
I made it!
Utah Valley
Glowing ridge
Box Elder Peak
Lone Peak massif
Falling through a cornice
Forest
Dustin and Grizz on the way back
Wind crust
Matt getting sandblasted
Matt in an alpine otherworld
Sun setting on a gusty ridge
Matt floating over a glowing ridge
Wind-scoured slope
Wind art
Standing tall
Draper at dusk
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