David  > Hiking > Recon to Three Fingers Lookout
Siew Moi, Norm and I hiked up to Three Fingers Lookout on the 8/23-8/24 weekend to get a damage assessment of the lookout.
Took us 8 hours to hike up and 6 hours to hike out (the latter includes additional time for me to recover and climb out after I took a 100-150ft tumble down a steep ice field; nope, there are no blood and gore pictures of me :-), thank god)
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David > we've rounded now most of the glacier basin, looking back to the snow fields we crossed so far
David > we're finally on the actual flanks of Three Fingers
David > Looking back to TCG (barely visible to the right) and our route so far.
David > Wonderful meadow of Blue Bells. We also see plenty of wool from Mountain Goats, but no goat so far
David > The gently bowed saddle in the middle is Tin Can Gap. We've crossed the snow field to the top left and traversed from there.
The snow field in the top left corner is where I'll have my spill/slip on our way out the next day...
David > looking back to our route so far: TCG saddle in the middle, we followed the snowfields and ridges to the left
David > here it is: the final ascend over a mild snow field. Can you see the lookout at the top of the picture?
David > Made it!! Standing next to the lookout
David > Norm changing from the ladder to the final ~20ft of rock beneath the lookout
we've rounded now most of the glacier basin, looking back to the snow fields we crossed so far
 > we've rounded now most of the glacier basin, looking back to the snow fields we crossed so far
we've rounded now most of the glacier basin, looking back to the snow fields we crossed so far
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