The trip had a bit of an inauspicious beginning. As I was racking up at camp, I accidentally dropped five locking carabiners clipped together down the moat between a rock and the snowpack. For a short bit, I thought I might have seriously hindered our ability to climb the mountain. Over the course of an hour-and-a-half we used our stove pot to excavate a large amount of snow from our camp.
Finally, we found the carabiners!
The following morning, we got up at 4:30am and were walking out of camp and across the glacier by 5am. We were climbing by 6:00am and on the summit by 11:30am. The descent took a long time and we were not back on the glacier until 4pm. We didn't make it back to the car until almost 9:30pm.
It was a long day, but it was great fun. Following is a photo essay from the day:
Approaching near Thornton Lake
The camp is for Mt. Triumph is at the top of the gully in the distance.
Climbing the gully below camp.
Mt. Triumph with the Northeast Ridge on the Right Skyline
Steep snow on the glacier
The Southern Pickets
Mt. Triumph
Looking back at the Col where we camped.
Low on the Northeast Ridge
The Obligatory Summit Shot!
--Jason D. Martin
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