1. Copper Creek Hut
1/30/2012
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2. Mare Pyke

3. Friendly folks we met
enroute to the hut
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5. Bob Brown &
Judy Scavoni,
MTTA patrollers
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6. Mare Pyke

7. Brian Steely

8. Brian Steely

9. Mare Pyke

10. The next morning,
unexpected sunshine. Mare Pyke

11. Paul Dutky

12. Paul Dutky

13. Tom Rogers

14. Mare Pyke

15. Lunch Time
Neil Dahmen

16. Paul Dutky

17. Tom Rogers
Three of us continued along Puyallup Ridge toward the Lookout Tower. We got within a half mile,
and 500 vertical feet, before deciding to head back while it was still light. A ski descent of the steep
tower road, on breakable crust, would have been impossible for us.

18. It was wonderful to sit down after a twelve mile day on difficult snow.
Brian Steely

19. Back in Ashford for lunch, and then
home.