Last week I got a picture text from Tommy E with a photo of a huge crevasse up on Hood with a jump carved out above it. Needless to say I was up there the next day, hiking far out into the canyon (and wishing I had more adequate gear for glacier travel) to check out the setup. Tommy and Josh Larkin had built a pretty gnarly gap over a huge chasm filled with chunks of ice.

The stakes were high, but Josh and Tommy kept their wits about them, sending the gap several times as me and Richard Hallman got the shot.

It was another one of those days in the backcountry where the vibe becomes subtly electric, and we become superstitious despite ourselves, and things like a bird landing on the lip of the jump shortly before the first drop signify a successful session, and the wind blows in just the right way.

All in all we were lucky to get in and out of this zone without serious repercussions; the mountain gave us a major gimme.