Climbing The Brothers, part 2

Jill pauses just before the hourglass, about halfway up the route.


On the detour around the hourglass, it's a lovely bleak early season morning in the Olympics.











In the couloir above the hourglass, Eric and Brian make their way up and up and up.


It's false summit time -- a stupid diversion off route sends us to the wrong summit. Here's Brian climbing back down a steep snow slope.