I will justify this mountain album on a canyon group with some tips for a
collection of fine potential canyons. At the end of our trip, we took a day on
Ross Lake and poked about the dozen plus waterfalls coming down to the lake. It
was a high snow year, so we suspect that early to mid August, thru October would be a great
time to poke about. Rent a boat from the resort and have at it. These are a
series of steep dropping drainage's, but the ones coming out of the north of
Jack Mt. might provide some nice gorges too. Mt's done were Black, Vesper,
Glacier, Pugh, Dome, Buckner. Also note the snowfield in picture 82. The one on
the left, just above the shade line. Look at picture #83 of that same snowfield,
moments after it collapsed off the face. The avalanche can still be seen, in
progress, half way down the glacier. We saw this from camp and were blown away
by the scope and sound of the event. It filled in some rather large crevasses
too!

Pictures?

http://picasaweb.google.com/aramv14/CascadeSJuly2002#

Ram...thanks fer the report. Love that area up there. Definitely a
volatile zone around the tops of those mountains. I stood on dry creek
pass looking south at Jack mountain when a huge chunk of glacier sheared
off sending ice, rock and debris in to the basin below. The sound rumbled
throughout the surrounding valleys.

On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, RAM wrote:

>
>
> I will justify this mountain album on a canyon group with some tips for a
> collection of fine potential canyons. At the end of our trip, we took a day
> on
> Ross Lake and poked about the dozen plus waterfalls coming down to the lake.
> It
> was a high snow year, so we suspect that early to mid August, thru October
> would be a great
> time to poke about. Rent a boat from the resort and have at it. These are a
> series of steep dropping drainage's, but the ones coming out of the north of
> Jack Mt. might provide some nice gorges too. Mt's done were Black, Vesper,
> Glacier, Pugh, Dome, Buckner. Also note the snowfield in picture 82. The one
> on
> the left, just above the shade line. Look at picture #83 of that same
> snowfield,
> moments after it collapsed off the face. The avalanche can still be seen, in
> progress, half way down the glacier. We saw this from camp and were blown
> away
> by the scope and sound of the event. It filled in some rather large
> crevasses
> too!
>
> Pictures?
>
> http://picasaweb.google.com/aramv14/CascadeSJuly2002#
>
>
>
>