Winter Attempts on Rainier

The weather was fine the next morning– the good weather we had been expecting was a day late. The majority of the party was unwilling to start our climb a day late. We hiked back up to the turn-around point to collect the flags we had placed and retrieve the skis. This picture shows how close together we were placing flags and how we were starting to veer wildly off course at the time we turned back. I have connected the flags with red lines to identify them.