North Fork of the Big Wood Trailhead parking lot.
Photo Date: 
09/01/2009
The turnoff to West Pass is just under 2 miles out the North Fork Canyon.
Photo Date: 
09/01/2009
Looking down the North Fork Canyon toward the trailhead from a few hundred feet up the West Pass Trail.
Photo Date: 
09/01/2009
The grueling West Pass Trail climbs up the left side of the drainange past a few waterfalls in West Pass Creek.
This is a view down West Pass Creek after climbing nearly 2,000 feet above the North Fork of the Big Wood.
Remnants of snowfields in August at the head of West Pass Basin.
West Pass Creek erodes the underside of late summer snowfields creating these sculpted tunnels.
Photo Date: 
09/01/2009
Looking down into the headwaters of West Pass Creek from Ibex Peak. The trail climbs the narrow strip of green vegetation to West Pass in the center of the photo.
A view looking across the headwaters of West Pass Creek at the north face of Ibex Peak.
Late summer wildflowers highlight the trail. Ibex Peak towers in the background.
West Pass is a barren, windswept landscape of volcanic rock.
The scramble up the west shoulder and south ridge of Ryan Peak is a popular but loose Class 2 to Class 3 route to the summit.
Working through some of the more technical terrain on the south ridge of Ryan Peak.
Looking across the broken volcanic landscape of Glassford Peak from the summit of Ryan Peak.