RHH's photos with the keyword: easton glacier

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.

After hiking to Park Butte, I returned to Morovitz Meadows and hiked the Railroad Grace trail from there. Railroad Grade has nothing at to do with any railroad, but the name refers to the "graded" climb along the west edge of the moraine left by Easton Glacier. It is one of the climber's routes for Mount Baker.When this photo was taken I had just climbed up to the moraine and was looking southeast.

The photo was taken looking back down the trail which is just visible in the lower center of the photo and looks and was more like a stream than a trail. I had come up from the lowest area in the photo, Morovitz Meadows, and was climbing quickly toward Park Butte. Later I would come back this way and go the opposite direction, up along the edge of Easton Glacier toward Mount Baker, but it was not clear at this point which way the weather was turning. Mount Baker was invisible in the clouds with only the foot of Easton Glacier showing and at this point I was starting to hike through some wet and deep snow.

Here,after an easy stroll through Screiber's Meadows, the Park Butte trail begins to ascend, crossing an area where drainage from Easton Glacier has torn wide avenues through the trees and littered the ground with rubble.