Much of the region in the Glacier Peak Wilderness Area which the Ptarmigan Traverse covers is shown here in the right third of the photo from the summit of Green Mountain. When this series of photos was taken in August 2002, a dilapidated lookout was on the summit. When I was last up there in August of 2006 the lookout had been removed for restoration.

This panorama was composed of a series (5-7) of photos taken with my first digital camera, a compact-style Nikon 880. They were subsequently assembled in Photoshop. It was one of my early attempts at a pano and the Auto Exposure setting of the camera was not locked. Therefore, across the broad spectrum (~110-degree point-of-view) of the photograph, the camera compensated the exposures differently and the sky was various shades of blue. So I turned it into a B&W image to minimize the distractions due to the stitching process.

I lost that camera in the summer of 2006 at O'Hare airport. It turned out to be an o.k. series of photos for a camera that has a street value of about $50 these days...


Click here for a similar view of the same region from Hidden Lake Peaks in North Cascades National Park.
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Information Sources and Clarification:
1. Cascade Alpine Guide, Climbing and High routes; 2: Stevens Pass to Rainy Pass; Beckey, F.; 2nd Ed,1989.
2. Green Trails and other maps.
3. P. Klenke, Summitpost.org (thanks)


Disclaimer:
As always with me, subject to correction. If I've misidentified any of these, please let me know.