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View from Idaho Road on the way there - we're going all the way to the top!
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From the parking lot - the northern side is near
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The thing that looks like a giant ship prow in the background is where we're headed
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The path leading up to the base
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One of the mountain's buttresses
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Things were looking quite green owing to the rain this winter
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This island of rock is off by itself, away from the primary massif
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Pretty sheer cliff face near the bottom
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The lone rock island from farther up the path
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The view up the trail, our goal is now in the background on the right
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Running water, how quaint!
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The water had made the area around it extremely green
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Desert moss is pretty novel!
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Half-pipe shaped area - we've been told it's absolutely raging with water during rains
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It's been pretty cold at night - with the elevation and this area being shaded from sun, there was ice at noon!
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More ice, frozen mid-flow
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More frozen rivulets
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It looks like frosting on a cake! Mmm, cake!
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The ridge north of us as we're climbing - this is still the lower of the two tiers of the mountain
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More of the north ridge
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Dan in front of a hoodoo-like structure
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A view back down the trail from about a third of the way up
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Looking up - the trail follows the gulley in the middle where the trees are
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Another gully north of the trail
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End of the northern ridge
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More icy streams
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Looking down - some of the areas up here are pretty craggy
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Looking up a rocky segment
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Looking back from near the elevation of the first tier of the mountain
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Another sheer cliff face on the north side of the trail
