Castle Crags from Illumination Saddle, Mt Hood, Oregon, USA
Castle Crags from Illumination Saddle 2,865m (9,400ft), with Leuthold Couloir (FA 1932) far left, and the Yocum Ridge above the couloir. Castle Crag is a spectacular spire of rotten basalt on the southwest side of Mt Hood, a stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc of Northern Oregon. Powerful glacial forces have eroded down a former rock ridge, leaving this fantasy sprire. The mountain's twelve glaciers are thinning as a result of glacial retreat.
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