Skiing the Muir Snowfield (1999 & 2000)
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July 25, 1999 _
View of Rainier through Trees
Bill Climbing the Muir Snowfield
Bill and Dave at Camp Muir
Bill Boarding beneath Rainier
Bill Boarding below the Icefall
Dave Carves a Turn below Rainier
Dave Boarding the Waterfall

April 8, 2000 _
View of Adams and St Helens
Rainier from Glacier Vista
Matt Climbing Muir Snowfield
Amar and Matt at Camp Muir
Matt Boarding Muir Snowfield
Matt Carving a Turn
Muir Snowfield Panorama

December 3, 2000 _
Matt and Micah Skiing Up
Adams with Lenticulars & Sun Dog
The Circum-Zenithal Arc!!!
Rainier Lenticular Clouds Panorama
Adams with Sunset Glow
Matt Boarding at Dusk
Micah Skiing into the Sunset
Amazingly, the stunning solar phenomena seen in the previous two photos vanished within a few minutes, never to be seen again that day. But all day looking north in front of us, Rainier was putting on its own show of lenticular clouds. The lenticular wrapped around the summit is streaming off to the left (southwest), implying that there are powerful northeast winds at this level (which produce the cloud as they condense when forced upward over the summit). But a second lenticular cloud at upper right is located well above and to the southeast of the mountain, revealing that strong winds higher aloft must be from the northwest.
(Panorama with 120-degree field of view, digitally composited from four photographs.)
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