1973 - Diamond Head, Himmelsbach Hut, Fissile, Nepal!

Diamond Head Location of the Elfin Lakes Shelter at Diamond Head My Flickr site for more pictures -  What prompted us to do some winter camping with a tent without a fly I don't remember. Perhaps neither Ken nor I had one and Lanny did. That was probably our pitiful excuse. We rented some cross country skiis from a store in Vancouver and off we went for Diamond Head. Camping just north of the old Chalet. More than a little cozy.  Fifteen hours in a tent. Well it was storming outside and life in the tent was better than outside. At least that was the case in the late afternon and early evening. By the next morning we were more than a little ready to get the heck out of the tent. Besides, the tent roof was resting on our sleeping bags! Yes the chalet was open but we wanted to rough it. At least that's how I remember it. :-) Himmelsbach Hut - Whistler/Blackcomb area Location of Russet Lake -  hut on north end My intrepid to be wife Lynn. I got Lynn to the hut! It was great to share a place I cared about so much with her. I hoped she liked it as much as I liked having her there. Mt. Baker - Washington State Location of start of climb A very gloomy outlook. Ken Willis and I went up to the start of the climbing route on Mt. Baker one weekend and pitched camp hoping that we could go up the mountain the next morning. During the night the weather turned and we got a storm. It rained and blew hard. As it was getting light in the morning we poked our heads out the door to see that things did not look friendly and inviting like it had the day before. In the early morning light it looked foreboding. It reminded me of how things can change for the worse and how a person needs to be ready to say no to things and know that it is the right thing to do. Fissile - Whistler/Blackcomb area Location of Fissile Peak Camping at a the Fissile - Whirlwind col. As part of our preparations for our trip to Nepal, Lanny Martiniuk, Ken Willis, and I hiked up to the Singing Pass - Himmelsbach Hut area after a night of partying. I think this was the trip that I walked into a tree that was leaning across the trail. That really hurt! Anyway, we fought off black flies until we camped just below the Fissile/Whirlwind col on a bench on the east side of the little glacier coming down from the col. Heading to Fissile's summit. We tried out our little kerosene stove and tent that we were taking to Nepal. We went up Fissile the next morning and wrote a very silly poem for the registration book in the summit cairn. It looked like we were going to get along just fine. :-) Nepal Nuptse at sunset. My Nepal Adventure Nepal, a trek to Mt. Everest's Base Camp, and a 41 day bus ride to England - Things are never quite what you expect ....