Mt. Adams rears is snowy crest above the edge of the Walla Walla Valley, as viewed from Oregon's Pikes Peak.
Mounts Hood and Adams, viewed from a Horizon Air flight between Walla Walla and Seattle.
The South Climb trailhead.
Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Adams' infamous cousin.
Mt. Hood (11,225 ft), Oregon's highest peak.
Mt. Hood and the landscape around Morrison Creek.
The lowest snowfields along the South Climb trail.
A barren, Mordor-like landscape on the southern slope of Mt. Adams, with Mt. St. Helens in the background.
Distant Mt. Hood.
The false summit viewed from Lunch Counter. The visible slope was the hardest part of the climb.
Ted photographs Klickitat Glacier near Piker's Peak (a sub-peak of Adams).
Looking up at the real summit.
Victory at last! Ted points at Mt. Rainier, the only mountain in the state taller than Adams.
Ted points at Mt. Hood from the summit of Mt. Adams.
Displaying our "expedition flag."
Ted flies the Colorado colors.
"Meditating" on the summit of Mt. Adams, with Mt. Rainier in the background.
"Phooning" on the summit marker.
Adams Glacier, with Mt. Rainier in the background.
A view of the volcano's glacier-capped crater.
Closeup of "the Pinnacle."
Mt. Hood at sunset.
Mt. Adams rises above Trout Lake, WA.
A view of the southern side of the mountain and both the false and true summits.
Mt. Adams and the Trout Lake sign.