Aerial Photos

Here's some recent (June 22nd, 2021) aerial photos from the south side of the mountain.  The mountain had a slight refresh with the June-uary storm cycles earlier this month, but the recent heat has been melting the new snow almost as fast as it fell.  Most routes are still hanging in there, but as the snow recedes, many of the routes begin to have an unsafe amount of rockfall and "close" for the summer.  Definitely remember your extra dark sunglasses this time of year!  

View of the upper Emmons Glacier - the "corridor" visible on the right side of the image.

Cathedral Rocks run in the center of this image, the Disappointment Cleaver is the rock ridge in the upper right of the image - note it's still at least 50% snow covered.

The Fuhrer Finger is the wavy-hourglass feature in the middle of the image, just to the left of the Nisqually Ice Fall.  Note the dirty, rock strewn section which has started to grow as the route melts out.

The Kautz Glacier's ice pitches are front and center in this image.  Not too melted out yet!