Mt. Harvard (14,420 ft) and Mt. Columbia (14,073 ft) Backpacking Trip
Brad - ready to go 
Shari has a few key trail advantages that Lonny and Brian don't have... 
Brad and Shari 
Brian and Lonny pumping water 
Camp (Brian, Brad & Shari, and Lonny's tent from near to far) 
The stream nearby camp 
Making dinner whilst hunting mosquitos 
The circle of death 
Playing Scrabble in Brian's tent 
Playing Scrabble in Brian's tent 
Playing Scrabble in Brian's tent 
Fun with a green laser 
Fun with a green laser 
Fun with a green laser 
Brian - taking his standard arm-length photo (sans Lisa) 
Alpenglow at dawn 
Setting off on the trail on Sunday 
Sunrise on Mt. Harvard 
Lonny, Shari, and Brad, heading up the trail at about 12,000 feet 
The "Rabbits" on the Harvard-Columbia ridgeline seem to resemble something... 
...we thought it looked like a hiker talking to a squirrel 
The Horn-Fork Basin above treeline 
Mt. Yale, shortly after sunrise 
Mt. Columbia 
Goats up on the ridgeline 
Mountain goats on the ridgeline 
The dog (Ben) that I thought was a bear the night before at camp 
Ben (the dog/bear) following Shari and Brad 
The Horn-Fork Basin 
Shari, pushing about 500 feet below the summit 
Brian and Shari on the final push of the ascent of Harvard 
Brian scrambling towards the Harvard summit 
Brian, scrambling towards the Harvard summit - Mt. Columbia in the backdrop 
Lonny, precariously poised at the edge of the summit 
On the summit of Harvard (Missouri and Belford in the immediate background) 
Brian, leaning against the summit high point 
Shari, descending one of many dirt shoots 
Lonny on a steep section of trail 
Part of our "ardous" traverse below the Harvard-Columbia ridgeline 
Lonny and Brad, taking a break above a snowfield 
Mt. Columbia finally visible in the distance 
Lonny and Shari trudging through the boulderfield 
Brad, Lonny and Shari 
Shari, with our traverse behind her 
Brad goofing off on a rock 
Brad, photographing atop Mt. Columbia (Buena Vista in the backdrop) 
The obligatory Columbia summit photo (Harvard behind us on the left) 
Brad and Mt. Harvard 
Brian and Lonny scoping out the descent route 
A marmot, mugging for the camera 
Mt. Yale, across the Horn-Fork Basin 
Brian, taking a break on the steep descent 
Shari and Brad...Shari's pretty much done at this point 
The steep descent of Mt. Columbia (Mt. Harvard in distance) 
An alternate descent - the "scree shoot of death"...can you spot the two people in it? 
Lonny, taking a break on his descent 
Brian taking a break on the steep descent 
Attempting to fit four people laying down in my tent 
Attempting to fit four people laying down in my tent 
Drying our rain flies - or are the trees pretending to be ghosts? 
A false summit on Mt. Yale 
Packing out 
