Quote Originally Posted by bburns223


very nice! by the looks of you and the place you're in you seem to be an experienced climber! 8400 feet, though, that's still pretty far up! OH *phews* 1,000 foot drop?!!![img]/emoticons/emotion-8.gif[/img]that might hurt [img]/emoticons/emotion-4.gif[/img]


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brendan


Thanks. I do enjoy this one as far as "me" shots go.





As for me, yes I'm a fairly experienced climber, but St. Helens isn't really too rough in good weather (blizzards in August are a story for another time). You should have an ice axe with you as long as the snow fields haven't all melted (some years they never do) just in case you slip and fall on a steep bit, but other than that it's more of a strenuous day hike than anything... murder on the knees when coming down.





And I suppose "pretty far up" is all relative to the terrain where you live. One of the Nepalese students working in my lab would probably laugh at me for calling any U.S. mountains "tall". []