The Black Buttes

We reached this point in our climb at about 4:00 pm. This relatively flat area of Coleman Glacier is known as the Football Field, and it was there we set up camp and spent the night in the shadow of the Black Buttes, a ragged ridge of crumbly rock that runs to the southwest from Mount Baker. The sun as it went down highlighted them and watching the light on them was part of a very enjoyable evening spent in expectation of next day's climbing.