RHH's photos with the keyword: moraine

This looks back down the Railroad Grade trail (nothing to do with trains, but a reference to its steady, nearly level grade), a glacial moraine on the south side of Mount Baker. After hiking to the moraine, we hiked its length as far as High Camp, a jump-off point for those who are going to the top of Baker. The mountains in the distance are still the North Cascades with Glacier Peak the dominant peak on the right.

Hiking the Park Butte and Railroad Grade trails, Mount Baker had been hidden in the clouds the whole time, but began to clear as I reached the glacial moraine known as Railroad Grade and was soon completely free of clouds. In the photo, the peak is at the far right with Easton Glacier below it and Railroad Grade curving up from the left. The sharply pointed peaks at the left are the Black Buttes, the more rounded peak near the center, Colfax Peak and the slope between Colfax and Baker the Roman Slope. When we climbed Baker we came from the other side of the Black Buttes, camping there on Coleman Glacier and climbing through the notch and up the Roman Slope, all much steeper than it appears in this photo.

This is another view of the glacial moraine called Railroad Grade. It is on the southwest side of Mount Baker and is a climbers' route for Baker. The view here is southeast and the photo was taken looking back not long after I started hiking up the trail.

In Explore, August 8, 2009, #251. This was the goal of our last day-hike before leaving Berg Lake and Mount Robson Provincial Park. It is also the last picture in the series I've been posting for so long. Time to go on to other things.