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A very special Skoki moment.A "view" south down Baker Creek past Anthozoan Mountain (R) towards Bulwark Peak (C) and Mount Avens (L).Views to the south include Lychnis and tantalizing views towards the Bonnet Icefield at center left.Looking back along the impressive Oyster Peak which I scrambled as part of a 72 hour peak binge in early September of 2005.Staring down the Baker Creek drainage and the Back Creek Trail with Tilted and Lychnis at left and Brachiopod and Anthozoan at right.Phil leaves our bivy as the sun rises over the Lychnis Col.Will this day ever END?! Ascending a small headwall under the unnamed lake. Tilted Mountain looms above us out of sight to the right here.Looking back at Lychnis rising over Tilted from the Baker Creek Trail.Late summer flowers as I glance back over Baker Lake to Tilted Mountain with Lychnis rising over it.Looking towards Skoki Mountain at center distance with Fossil at left and an unnamed summit at right. No views today, unfortunately.Looking back along the scree sidewalk - I can't believe how lucky this feature was! Baker Lake visible at distant left.The Bonnet Icefield is located up this valley and beyond. I'm not sure there's any named summits visible here but Hickson Peak is somewhere on this line.Looking down my descent line on the west face - much easier than the ascent line was but pretty darn loose.Looking back over Baker Lake as we ascend towards Ptarmigan Lake - the sun struggles to get through all the smoke.Looking along the hidden scree sidewalk feature towards the summit of Tilted Mountain.Riding the line between scree and slab, looking down my ascent.Finally at the lake, but now we have to rock hop to the far NE end to set up our bivy.Passing Oyster (oos on the left) and heading for what we assumed was Tilted at foreground left. We realized soon that Tilted is at center distance.
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