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Interesting light with part of Wynn Mountain above Lake Sherburne.
Wynn Mountain is named after Dr. Frank B. Wynn, one-time president of the American Alpine Club. In 1922, he died near the summit of Mount Siyeh. His hiking companion noted that while climbing a challenging pitch, he suddenly hunched over and toppled a few hundred feet down a cliff. An 8,404 foot tall peak connected to Mount Siyeh (to the right) via a long ridge, called Spot Mountain at the time of Wynn's death, was later renamed in his honor.
from summitpost.org: Rising high above the waters of Sherburne Reservoir is the crumbled and broken north face of Wynn Mountain. From this vantage point, it is difficult to imagine that Wynn's summit can be obtained via a tiring, but straightforward class II slog. But herein lies one of the most magical wonders of the mountains of Glacier. Carved by glaciation and continually modified by notoriously fierce weather conditions, the vast majority of peaks can be ascended via class II and III routes if care is taken to exploit each mountain's path(s) of least resistance.
Wynn Mountain is named after Dr. Frank B. Wynn, one-time president of the American Alpine Club. In 1922, he died near the summit of Mount Siyeh. His hiking companion noted that while climbing a challenging pitch, he suddenly hunched over and toppled a few hundred feet down a cliff. An 8,404 foot tall peak connected to Mount Siyeh (to the right) via a long ridge, called Spot Mountain at the time of Wynn's death, was later renamed in his honor.
from summitpost.org: Rising high above the waters of Sherburne Reservoir is the crumbled and broken north face of Wynn Mountain. From this vantage point, it is difficult to imagine that Wynn's summit can be obtained via a tiring, but straightforward class II slog. But herein lies one of the most magical wonders of the mountains of Glacier. Carved by glaciation and continually modified by notoriously fierce weather conditions, the vast majority of peaks can be ascended via class II and III routes if care is taken to exploit each mountain's path(s) of least resistance.