RHH's photos with the keyword: huntoon point

Huntoon Point marks the western end of Kulshan Ridge, a long ridge that runs from Mount Baker towards Mount Shuksan. Artist's Point is on the ridge also, near where we were standing when this photo was taken. That evening there were a number of campers up near Artist's Point and one group up on Huntoon Point, not a place I would camp if there was any wind, but that Saturday was a quiet, windless day and quite warm. Their tent and several of them are visible in the photo.

Ptarmigan Ridge is the ridge that begins on the right of the photo. It sweeps off to the right and leads all the way to Mount Baker. I am crossing the ridge here and heading back along the south slope of Table Mountain. The trail here is mostly cinder and ash, evidence of Baker's volcanic nature. Huntoon Point is on the left and we've been on top of it both in the summer and in the winter on snowshoes from the ridge on the left which reaches it from Artist's Point. The whole area was fantastically beautiful even though neither Mount Baker nor Mount Shuksan were visible. Now it has a different kind of beauty - there is already over six feet of snow (two meters) in this area.

We were headed back down and the clouds were moving in when this was taken looking back to Kulshan Ridge on which Artist's Point lies. When snowshoeing along Kulshan Ridge it is possible to go as far as Huntoon Point on the left of the photo though we did not do so.