Martin Bravenboer: Early view of the Mountain Loop area and the Skagit River valley (from Oakes)
Martin Bravenboer: Early view of Logger Butte (from Oakes)
Martin Bravenboer: Early view of Bacon Peak (from Oakes)
Martin Bravenboer: Plenty of fresh snow to cover the trees
Martin Bravenboer: Bacon Peak from Oakes
Martin Bravenboer: Blum from Oakes. Left of Blum you can see a bit of Mt. Shuksan. Right of Blum is the summit of Icy
Martin Bravenboer: Electric Butte from Oakes
Martin Bravenboer: Diobsud Buttes and Logger Butte from Oakes
Martin Bravenboer: Triumph, Terror (in distance), and Thornton
Martin Bravenboer: Mount Despair. Right of Despair are the Pickets
Martin Bravenboer: Despair (left), Triumph (middle) and Thornton. In the background are the Pickets
Martin Bravenboer: Mt Baker from Oakes, with in the foreground the Bacon Creek drainage
Martin Bravenboer: Gear at Oakes summit
Martin Bravenboer: In the foreground you can see the ridge to Salvation (left) and Damnation (right)
Martin Bravenboer: Snow drifts on the summit of Oakes
Martin Bravenboer: Snow drifts on the summit of Oakes
Martin Bravenboer: View east from Oakes towards the Snowfield group (The Needle)
Martin Bravenboer: View east from Oakes with too many peaks to list them all! From left: Jack, Crater, Ruby, Pyramid, Pinacle, Colonial, Snowfield group, Isolation Peak
Martin Bravenboer: Big Devil ridge, with many summits visible over the ridge (Eldorado to the right)
Martin Bravenboer: Looking south from Oakes towards Glacier Peak and Snowking
Martin Bravenboer: Looking towards Mountain Loop area from Oakes, with Three Fingers and Whitehorse
Martin Bravenboer: Sloan Peak, Pugh, Bettys Jugs, White Chuck, Del Campo, Rainier, and many more summits
Martin Bravenboer: Panorama from Oakes of the gorgeous range of Diobsud Buttes, Logger Butte, and Electric Butte
Martin Bravenboer: Panorama from Oakes of the gorgeous range of Diobsud Buttes, Logger Butte, and Electric Butte
Martin Bravenboer: Panorama from Oakes of the gorgeous range of Diobsud Buttes, Logger Butte, and Electric Butte
Martin Bravenboer: Panorama of Despair (left), Triumph (middle) and Thornton. In the background are the Pickets
Martin Bravenboer: Panorama of North Cascades from Oakes
Martin Bravenboer: Panorama of North Cascades from Oakes
Martin Bravenboer: Looking east deeper into the North Cascades from Oakes, with Davis Peak, Sourdough ridge, Jack, Crater
Martin Bravenboer: Snowshoe track on final section to the Oakes summit