| Welcome to SP! - Sign-In | Register | ||
| | |
| MbPost.com -- It's SP for Mountain Biking! | ||
Cascade Volcanoes > Mount Rainier > Climber's Log|
|
|
| IdaClimber | Wow, Success!!!  Date Climbed: Jul 7, 2006 | |
| I cannot believe I did it. This mountin is huge!!! | ||
| Posted Jul 10, 2006 9:17 pm | ||
| BalletBoy | Routed Climbed: Disappointment Cleaver Date Climbed: Jun 30, 2006 | |
| I flew from Colorado to Seattle on the 28th to meet up with a group of 7 from Utah. Took the remainder of the the day to get to Camp Muir. At Camp Muir we rested on Thursday the 29th and then began our Summit bid on the 30th at 12:40am. The weather was perfect and very warm. We had to leave a little early due to the soft snow conditions. What a beautiful mountain and a great view and experience. See my Pics by clicking on my profile. | |
| Posted Jul 8, 2006 8:53 pm | ||
| brusy | Fuhrer's Finger Date Climbed: Jul 2, 2006 | |
| Descended via DC, couldn't find the other way in white out... Would never do it again though. | |
| Posted Jul 8, 2006 3:52 am | ||
| tjbst47 | emmons glacier Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2006 | |
| Went up Emmons glacier. Mostly selected our own path below bergschrund (~13,200 ft). Above this, a path was beaten in and heaviley wanded to summit, which allowed us to make it in whiteout conditions. Too bad I missed the views, ~30 m visibility. | |
| Posted Jul 7, 2006 7:43 pm | ||
| daverobb | Winthrop Glacier / Upper Emmons Variation Date Climbed: Jul 2, 2006 | |
| Finally kicked her in the nards! Third times a charm. High winds and low visibilty on the summit day, but went off without a hitch. Linked up an alternate variation below the seracs on emmons and up the winthrop ridge then connected back up with the upper emmons below the bergschrund. | |
| Posted Jul 7, 2006 12:59 am | ||
| Joseph Bullough | Liberty Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 2, 2006 | |
| Made a quick hike into Glacier Basin on 6/30, then a strenuous 9-hour day under perfect blue skies to the bivy site at Thumb Rock on 7/1. Summit day on 7/2 began clear but we became enveloped in clouds on the upper ridge, and navigated to the summit in near-zero visibility conditions by map/GPS. As Brian said, this is an incredible route which fully lives up to its classic reputation. | |
| Posted Jul 6, 2006 1:39 pm | ||
| dunsum | Liberty Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 2, 2006 | |
| Incredible route; fully deserving of its classic reputation. Climbed with Joe Bullough June 30th to July 2nd. The lower portion of the route, up to Thumb Rock, is suffering from the summer's heat and some snow bridges are near failure, but the upper route is in fine shape and the climbing excellent. We topped out in whiteout conditions and had to navigate the summit and the descent by map and GPS. | |
| Posted Jul 6, 2006 2:58 am | ||
| RModelli | win/emmons summit Date Climbed: Jul 2, 2006 | |
| great climb. no views on the summit, white out conditions. Great! | |
| Posted Jul 4, 2006 7:17 pm | ||
| swampclimber | DC Date Climbed: Jul 19, 2005 | |
| Two day ascent of the DC. Beautiful weather. | |
| Posted Jul 4, 2006 6:06 pm | ||
| marauders | Route Climbed: Disappointment Cleaver Date Climbed: Jul 1, 2006 | |
| Summited with a great group of climbing buddies. Great weather and breathtaking scenery. Some slow groups caused a bottleneck at the cleaver because each person was clipping into a fixed line. We wasted an hour waiting behind them, so when they rested at the top of the cleaver we were able to get past them. Other than that frustration, the climb was tons of fun. My first time in glacier terrain. I loved it. I plan on returning to Rainier often to try other routes. | |
| Posted Jul 3, 2006 5:06 pm | ||
| climbhighnow | Liberty Ridge Date Climbed: Jun 27, 2006 | |
| kick ass cimb! man what a route, long sustained FUN climbing. weather was clear, sort of warm which meant some serious rock fall (mostly down low). the upper ridge was in great Alpine Ice shape and seemed to just keep going on forever. super classic! calve burner! | |
| Posted Jul 1, 2006 3:14 am | ||
| shknbke | via Emmons Glacier Date Climbed: Jun 20, 2006 | |
| Climbed Rainier via the easier Emmons Glacier, but it is a serious haul with 10600' of vertical! Weather was perfect other than high winds up high. Crevasse danger was minimal early in the season. It took us 7.5 hrs to reach the crater rim from Schurman, a serious calf burner! | |
| Posted Jun 27, 2006 6:09 pm | ||
| pjc30943 | DC up, Ingraham down Date Climbed: Jun 18, 2006 | |
| There are some mighty big seracs on this mountain:) Very nice snow conditions; weather was flawless as well [aside from high winds near the summit]. Someone just in front of us fell about 20 ft into a crevasse while we were descending Ingraham. Plunged to the tune of no serious injuries fortunately, as his fall was arrested by his veteran-climber brother, and rescue was facilitated by several groups of canadians. | ||
| Posted Jun 27, 2006 5:51 am | ||
| rockrat2 | Disapointment Cleaver | |
| Climbed it in two days, no guide. Fun route but too much traffic. Will pick less travelled route on next trip. Awesome scenery. | |
| Posted Jun 20, 2006 2:57 am | ||
| GMatthews | Disapointment Cleaver Date Climbed: Jun 15, 2006 | |
| I went on the 5 day RMI camp Muir seminar. It was great fun and we had some really great guides. It took are group a just under 11 hours roundtrip from camp Muir to reach columbia crest (4,392M) summit. This was a great trip. | |
| Posted Jun 19, 2006 1:32 am | ||
| sierramtngoat | Disappointment Cleaver Date Climbed: Jul 10, 2001 | |
| Straight up, I will never again climb with RMI. I'm not sure what is more stupid, sending an unscreened team of newbies up a scree pile in crampons, or doubling the pace at 13,000 ft. to make up for lost time. Needless to say, no one on my rope summitted, but I did get the satisfaction of seeing our "leader" fall on his face down-climbing the scree I questioned him on going up. What a bone head operation. I would have easily summitted had he not changed the pace after everyone else had dropped off; in hind-sight, I think he did it on purpose so we wouldn't be just two on a rope. | |
| Posted Jun 16, 2006 8:06 am | ||
| thenunz | Where's the sumitt? Date Climbed: Jun 3, 2006 | |
| See Michael's comments below. | |
| Posted Jun 9, 2006 3:58 am | ||
| iwlclmeverest | Blast Date Climbed: Jun 5, 2003 | |
| It could be a difficult climb, but we were blessed with great perfect conditions and fun people. Great climb. | |
| Posted Jun 6, 2006 5:18 pm | ||
| MichaelJ | Liberty Ridge in six days Date Climbed: Jun 3, 2006 | |
| On Memorial Day I set off with Scott and Chris to tackle LR. We spent the first night on Curtis Ridge and encountered heavy snow conditions before getting to Thumb Rock around 10k on LR by the second night. We made it to 13k the next day before a storm forced us to bivy. We had two more days of bad weather, including about 5 feet of fresh snow, and two more high bivies, the last of which was about 200 below the Liberty Cap summit, although we couldn't see this in the storm. Winds gusting to around 100 mph the last night almost wrecked the tent and forced us out in the gale to fix anchors a couple times. Summit day was beautiful but Scott got frostbite on all his fingers and three toes. | |
| Posted Jun 5, 2006 3:58 pm | ||
| T Sharp | Several Summits Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2003 | |
| I have been on 7 climbs of Mt. Rainier with 3 succesful summits all via the Dissapointment Cleaver. I have made 2 winter attempts,notably a Jan.1 2000 attempt that was turned away due to high avalanche conditions. I have been unsuccesful on the Kautz and The Gib Ledges. I have also been up to St. Elmos Pass but turned around due to bad weather. | |
| Posted May 28, 2006 9:22 pm | ||
|
