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| Jim Carr | Disappointment Cleaver  Date Climbed: Jun 30, 1998 | |
| Had crystal clear weather our first night at Camp Muir, so went for it. Left at midnight and made the summit by 7:00 am. Weather rolled in on our descent from Camp Muir that afternoon. This was my second attempt after being socked in at Camp Muir for all 4 days of our trip the year before. | ||
| Posted Jun 15, 2007 2:20 pm | ||
| Scott Wesemann | DC Route Date Climbed: Jun 8, 2007 | |
| Ran into bad weather and had to abort climb. The rangers said the storm would stick around for two days, so everyone in my group decided to bail. The hike to Muir was brutal. | |
| Posted Jun 15, 2007 1:50 am | ||
| Redwic | Great experience! Date Climbed: Jun 1, 2007 | |
| The weather was beautiful and the snow conditions were great... Crossing numerous crevasses along Ingraham Glacier Direct wasn't always easy, but reaching the summit was well worth all of the challenges of the hike. | |
| Posted Jun 6, 2007 2:56 pm | ||
| Brad Mastros | Liberty Ridge Date Climbed: May 30, 2007 | |
| Unbelievable weather for four days straight. Definitely full days, but well worth it. Great learning experience for me. Highly recommended. | |
| Posted Jun 6, 2007 12:09 am | ||
| forjan | Liberty Ridge Date Climbed: May 30, 2007 | |
| Spectacular weather all 4 days we're up there. Climbed with Dave German and Brad Mastros. Took 11.5 hrs to summit from Thumb Rock. Crowds and bottleneck at the crux. I spent over an hour waiting for Dave & Brad to climb the ice as they themselves were waiting for the 3-person Russian team to finish climbing (the Russians arrived first at the base of the ice and we didn't want to rain down tons of ice on them). All 4 teams, including ourselves, decided to camp out on the summit crater as we're all spent. Next day (Thurs, May 31st) we descended the Emmons-Winthrop glacier and down to the White River campground trailhead. TR to follow soon. ---------- Date Climbed: July 5, 2004 Route Climbed: Disappointment Cleaver After a failed attempt in June 2003, this time we nailed it. Our Los Angeles/Chicago team summited Rainier Monday, July 5th, 2004. All 7 of us summited--- rope team #1: mdostby, Steven Sauter, jimconsid, Gibran Begum; rope team #2: agorokhov, Jamie Norris, myself. We left Camp Muir at 12:15am and reached the summit crater rim at 9:20am. We unroped at the crater rim and then everyone went at their own pace to tag the true summit (Columbia Crest: 14,411'). I made the summit at 9:37am. Then, after the mandatory summit pictures, we all headed down at 10:00am. We were luckly to have excellent weather and perfect route conditions for the most part. Most of us were spent after the climb and decided to stay an additional night at Camp Muir before heading out to Paradise the next day. We had our celebratory dinner at Puerto Vallarta Mexican restaurant in Eatonville, WA. Great food! I highly recommend to eat here after your climb. ---------- Date Climbed: June 18, 2003 Route Climbed: Disappointment Cleaver No summit. We reached 11,900' (just a few hundred feet below the top of the Cleaver). Our team: Mike (mdostby), Alex (agorokhov), Murray Zichlinsky and myself. We had been planning this trip for the past 6 months. We even practiced crevasse rescue out of a bridge in the Los Angeles area. We hiked in on a sunny Tuesday (June 17th) to Camp Muir. However, before leaving Paradise, we knew the weather forecast was calling for poor weather in days ahead. We thought we could beat the incoming bad weather---we were wrong. We roped up and started walking away from Camp Muir at 1:40am Wednesday June 18th. Crossed the Cowlitz Glacier, up thru Cathedral Gap (we encountered some idiots dislodging all kinds of rocks from above), skirted a few crevasses thru the Ingraham Glacier and by sunrise at 11,900 feet we decided to call it quits. The combination of high winds, inclement weather, and 2 team members who felt tired prompted us to turn around at this point. We safely made it back to Camp Muir, broke camp and headed down to the Paradise parking lot. We plan to try again next summer (July 2004). | |
| Posted Jun 4, 2007 3:10 am | ||
| iceworm | Kautz Glacier Date Climbed: Jun 2, 2007 | |
| Great Climb! Always dreamed of doing this since I can remember. Kautz had a few hairy spots, second ice cliff was interesting to climb with a 90cm old school ax. No complaints, amazing climb! Best of luck to all others attempting this season, keep pushing, it's worth! | |
| Posted Jun 4, 2007 2:43 am | ||
| Cascade Scrambler | Ingraham Direct Date Climbed: Jun 1, 2007 | |
| I've never done anything tougher in my life than summit Rainier. Day 1. Arrived at Camp Muir at about 5pm. Day 2. Woke up at 12:45am, left Camp Muir at 2am, summitted at 11:45am, arrived back at Camp Muir at 4pm. (Wasted a *ton* of time on the descent due to a "stupid move" by a climbing partner.) Day 3. Made the descent from Camp Muir to Paradise in 2 hours and 45 minutes. Brutal, but worth it! | |
| Posted Jun 4, 2007 1:19 am | ||
| Art Vandalay | Great Climb Date Climbed: Jun 2, 2007 | |
| via Ingraham Glacier Direct. Awesome climb, great day, good weather. | |
| Posted Jun 4, 2007 12:43 am | ||
| kelseymkrause | Ingraham Direct Date Climbed: May 27, 2007 | |
| This was a very hard but rewarding mountain to climb. Weather changes very fast. It was very cold on top. | |
| Posted May 29, 2007 2:48 pm | ||
| bc44caesar | Multiple Date Climbed: May 15, 2007 | |
| 15 May 2007 - Kautz Glacier/Fuhrer Finger Climbed the Kautz Glacier in a single push. Left the lot at midnight, stopped to brew at the bottom of the turtle, and got going again shortly after daylight. Second cliff on the Kautz was thin soft snow over ice. Started feeling the altitude by 12000 and made slow progress from there on. Reached the summit after 14.5hrs on the go. Decided the Kautz wouldn't be a good ski so headed down Fuhrer Finger, which was in nice condition. Back to the car at 5pm for a 17hr day. 4 Jul 2011 - Kautz Cleaver/East Success Couloir Hiked the very snow-covered trail to Comet Falls then up to a nice campsite (~7500') above Van Trump Park. Skinned up to Wapowety Cleaver, descended to the Kautz then up the Kautz Cleaver. Did a sketchy traverse below the cliffband below Point Success rather than take the obvious short chute. Skinned over to the summit, then skied back down. Snow conditions were very soft but didn't slough too much. Didn't run into anyone all day, just saw several parties on the Kautz. | |
| Posted May 16, 2007 1:05 pm | ||
| dankras | Ingraham Direct Date Climbed: May 7, 2007 | |
| Perfect day; windy uptop. | |
| Posted May 15, 2007 1:08 pm | ||
| LonePeakFreak | Ingraham Direct | |
| Highly recommend a night at the historic Paradise Inn. Looking out over the clouds at sunrise was incredible. | |
| Posted Apr 27, 2007 1:17 pm | ||
| snowclimber12 | lots of snow | |
| tons of snow compared to many mountains awesome climb lots of fun | |
| Posted Apr 22, 2007 10:31 pm | ||
| Jerry S | Lucky day Date Climbed: Apr 19, 2007 | |
| Left Camp Muir on April 19th around 4am, arrived at the summit in 6hr 5min. I was with a group of 9 clients and 4 guides from RMI to arrive at Columbia Crest. It was an amazing day and I arrived at the summit wearing only a long sleeve base layer shirt on top - that's how nice it was. It was probably 45F on the summit. Due to the massive amounts of snow (vs a summer attempt), we came up the Ingraham Glacier Route and made a pretty direct path up to the summit. Most of the crevasses were bridged over and limited route finding was necessary by our lead guide. What an incredible day. Since the park has been closed to the public since the November rain storms, I believe we were the first people to summit since November. We were so lucky to have such an incredible day. | |
| Posted Apr 22, 2007 6:10 pm | ||
| hikerbrian | Emmons-Winthrup Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2004 | |
| Very enjoyable climb. | |
| Posted Mar 20, 2007 12:42 am | ||
| The edge | HP #49 Date Climbed: Jul 20, 2005 | |
| Well guess what... only two to go.... Randolf; Blue ... Congrats... We all made it to the very top of Rainier... It was crazy windy but guess what... only one left... Here we come Gannett Peak, WY | |
| Posted Mar 14, 2007 4:23 pm | ||
| skunk ape | DC Date Climbed: Aug 5, 2003 | |
| My wife and I climbed it on our 9th aniversary, had a great time passing guided groups, met a lot of cool people. | |
| Posted Feb 27, 2007 1:52 am | ||
| lizrdboy | I Love Rainer | |
| By far the baddest peak in the lower 48. My first summit was by the Kautz Glacier, second by Liberty Ridge. Wish I lived closer - I'd be in much better shape. | |
| Posted Feb 26, 2007 6:11 am | ||
| Hotfeet | Disappointment Cleaver Date Climbed: Aug 13, 2006 | |
| What a wonderful Mountain. I had the time of my life. I can hardly wait until I can climb it again. Summit #1 | |
| Posted Feb 25, 2007 7:30 pm | ||
| lukic | My favorite place Date Climbed: Jul 29, 2006 | |
| This particular time was the third time I've summited Rainier (second for the summer of 2006) and my roomate and I spent the night on the summit. It was a leisurely 3 day trip up the Emmons in almost ideal weather (a little drizzle while bivied up the Emmons on top of the corridor). | |
| Posted Feb 20, 2007 10:24 pm | ||
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