The Great Scott Bowl, and The Tooth, from the trail.
Looking down-valley from the final approach into the basin.
The view from the basin looking east to Mt Snoqualmie and the Cascade Crest peaks beyond.
Looking up into the basin from the rim. The east face of Chair Peak dominates the head of the basin.
laden snow in the upper basin.
The basin after lunch, and turns. While
I was sitting on the ledge at my high spot below the east face eating my lunch, a woman in
her early sixties climbed up and joined me. I noticed she was wearing a
'Little House on the Prairie" bonnet under a bicycling helmet. She asked
if I had ever climbed Chair Peak.
I responded that I had, a few times. Not having climbed this peak, she
asked for advice about the Northeast Buttress route. I told her what I
knew as she munched on her sandwich. After she was done, she thanked me
and struck out up the ledges to the base of the route. After I took this
picture, I looked for her and finally found her making her way up the
lower third of the rock buttress that can be seen just left of the dark
part of the peak on the right. During our time together I asked her if
she had climbed anything else in the area. Her response was, "Most of
it."
The Tooth and Great Scott Bowl from the same spot as the last image.
A panorama of the ridge from Chair Peak to the Tooth.
