The toughest part of this climb is the approach. The glacier is pretty straightforward.
But there is a few hundred foot tall gully of nothing but roots and slippery wet dirt to ascend on the way to basecamp, well before you hit the glacier. And even more challenging? The descent down that gully.
The views are clearly worth it. Every single slip backward, every bit of mud under your nails when there was nothing else to grasp, all of it. We packed our stove up with us and had coffee and breakfast at the summit.
View from basecamp
I may have to do a whole series called something like, “Darin eating Grape Nuts in cool places”
