2. 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)
more details: http://trailmaniacs.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/reccon-three-fingers-lookout/
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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.<br /> The snow field in the top left corner is where I'll have my spill/slip on our way out the next day...
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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...

recconthreefingerslookout

  • 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.<br /> The snow field in the top left corner is where I'll have my spill/slip on our way out the next day...
  • looking back to our route so far: TCG saddle in the middle, we followed the snowfields and ridges to the left
  • here it is: the final ascend over a mild snow field. Can you see the lookout at the top of the picture?
  • Made it!! Standing next to the lookout
  • Norm changing from the ladder to the final ~20ft of rock beneath the lookout
  • When is dinner time?
  • Looking East
  • Looking North, Mt Baker
  • Looking NW towards Tin Can Gap
  • The lookout sits right atop long drops to east and west
  • Looking down the north face of Three Fingers (~2000ft drop)
  • Looking East towards Glacier Peak
  • Backside of the lookout; we've now opened some of the shutters.<br /> Lookout has now severe winter damage but several shutters despereatly need repair and paint
  • East corner of the lookout
  • North side of the lookout
  • Looking south next to lookout. The large black mountain towards horizon is Mt Pilchuck
  • Looking south
  • Glacier Peak in the east again
  • No real sunset for us, clouds in the west were too compact. we can see the lights of Everett below
  • Sky is on fire next to Glacier Peak
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