A backpacker stands in full raingear on a ridge with the trail snaking behind her. The mountain peaks ahead have patches of snow and the peaks and trail ahead disappear into low clouds.
A backpacker crouches to go up small switchback on a steep rocky ridge.
A backpacker with one trekking pole crosses a snow field on Packwood Glacier. There are tracks in the snow and the trail ahead disappears into fog and snow.
A hillside of columnar basalt. Broken columns are in the foreground and layers of columns are in back. These columns form when lava cools under the right conditions.
OTD in 2005, @tapirsmith.bsky.social and I were in #goatrockswilderness on the #pct. We crossed #packwoodglacier in fog. We came back two more times in later years to finally see it in all its glory!
