September 5, 2014: Eliot Glacier (Mt. Hood Wilderness, Oregon)

I posted a thorough account of the day's explorations on OregonHikers.org.
Gnarl Ridge Fire damage
Greene's goldenweed
Sitka mountain-ash berries
lupines & Mt. Adams
cairn on Eliot Glacier's east moraine
stonecrop
Eliot Glacier
compact phacelia
hiker tackling the west moraine head-on
snowfield #1
randkluft
trail down from Cooper Spur
Lewis' monkeyflower
snowfield #2
crevasses
crevasses
alpine sandwort
dwarf lupine
Langille Crags & Mt. Adams
traverse route
Eliot Glacier
west moraine
mid-glacier cliffs
jumbled ice
ice/rock cave
muddy trench
colors & shadows
water coming up through ice
debris flows on snow
path down the east moraine
Eliot Creek & its steep eroded west moraine
Eliot washout
Eliot washout & the east rope
Eliot Creek
Cascade aster
lupine
Lewis' monkeyflower
Eliot Creek crossing point
hikers at the west rope
sulphur-flower buckwheat
woodland beardtongue
cascades on Eliot Creek
Gnarl Ridge Fire & Mt. Adams
pearly everlasting
1990s Timberline Trail washout

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