The Shadow of Baker

This was taken early in the morning on the second day of our Mount Baker Climb. At this point we were still crossing and climbing Coleman Glacier and had been climbing for over an hour and half with the Black Buttes (see previous photo) on our right and Mount Baker ahead and to the east. When this picture was taken the sun was just coming up behind Mount Baker to the east (in the opposite direction from the picture). We were looking back west and taking pictures of the sunrise colors in the sky over Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands when this shot was taken. We did not recognize it at the time, but this is the shadow of Mount Baker being thrown many miles away on the western horizon by the rising sun. A friend who saw this picture pointed that out.