The Cascade Gulch Route climbs the obvious central gully up the mountain, taking a left around the rock bluffs, then curving back around and climbing steeply to the col, which is the just visible rock saddle between Shastina and Shasta's summit cone. The bluffs in this photo begin at around 10,000 feet and continue up to approximately 10,400 feet. It was just under these rocks that Craig Hiemstra, John's partner during the accident, was found. It was obviously a very ominous place to camp, and the mountain topography served as a constant reminder of who had perished there, and never let us forget that we'd come to try to make sense of it all.