Lake Catherine, Granite Dome, and Boulder Field

Looking down and to the west from North Glacier Pass shows how rugged the boulderfield is from there down to the shoreline of Lake Catherine. The granite dome on the other side of the lake, to the left in this photo, rises 75 feet or more above the lake surface. The exit stream from Lake Catherine flows somewhere underneath the well-packed snow to the right of the dome. The cornice on the drifted snow has a very visible crack near the top where it will eventually fail, yet there were people walking along the snow at the bottom of the drift. We chose to go around and behind both this dome and the taller one to the south of it...an "interesting" choice...