Door Jam Mountain Hiking (to Loader Peak) - part 2📷

I posted the first series of photos hiking up this awesome ridge scramble to Door Jam, this series will show the mountain beyond this point and up to the next summit, called Loader.

This first photo looks back down toward the summit of door jam mountain, which is then almost all rock up above it along the ridge, which has some awesome exposure. You can see some of the the animal/hiking trails alone the skree slopes.

From up here, the panorama shots are fantastic, and some perfect backdrop mountains with snow peaks and puffy clouds.

This looks beyond from the summit of Loader, to the even more distance additional peaks along this traverse. The scrambling from here turns to climbing and mountaineering, which was not on the agenda for this day, but I would love to carry on this long traverse one of these trips for sure. Ropes and harnesses are needed for these additional peaks though for safety.

Plenty of long ridge lines out in this area, I'm going to have to come back and do that one across the middle of the photo. not sure if its has any trails but I'll find some way. That's my favorite kind of hike anyway, when I don't know where I am going and have to find a route.

We stopped for a quick sandwich up here behind some rocks as the windy was just insane and cold. Didn't stop me from running around at the summit snapping a few more panoramas though. haha

One last shot looking north to the long traverse that has my attention now. Someday....