Mt. Adams, South Climb 7-10-10

Everyone relaxing around base camp after setting up tents and eating dinner.

It looks like the surface of the moon, but it is actually our high camp at Lunch Counter. Most of the tent sites were buried, so a bunch of us ended up setting our tents up on the snow.

It was a nice evening on the mountain with just a light breeze.

We had a dozen climbers reach the summit the next day. Our usual exhilarating mile-long glissade back to high camp was followed by a fast, fun descent on snow that extended most of the way back to the cars.