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YH SIGHTINGS! Send us photos of yourself holding our beloved YH Magazine in your hands. It could be at work, at your next vacation or pretty much anywhere. We'll leave the creativity in your hands! Cell Phone Photos are welcome! The below photos were submitted by Jesse Morenz of Hartford who took them at the highest point of Mt.Shuksan.
ABOVE: Jesse Morenz on the summit of Mt. Shuksan reading a copy of the latest YH magazine, elevation 9130 ft. Mt. Shuksan is the highest non-volcanic peak in the Cascade Mountain range and is located in an area known as the North American Alps due to the plethora of extremely sharp and steep mountains located there. Mt. Shuksan is a remote peak and is reached by hiking though the thick pacific forest until the glacier is reached then climbing the glacier to the base of the summit pyramid. The summit pyramid reaches 700 feet into the sky above the glacier and can only be conquered with technical climbing skills.
ABOVE: is a distance shot of Mt. Shuksan taken from the Sulfide Glacier at an altitude of 6200 ft. You can see a feature known as an ice fall in the foreground where a glacier spills over a steep slope and breaks into large chunks of ice known as seracs. Seracs cause extreme climbing hazards because they can weigh tons and topple unpredictably. The snow filled chute known as a couloir seen in the middle of the mountain was our route to the summit and involved strenuous technical snow and rock climbing.
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