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| osatrik | The Guide Route  | |
| I've summited via the DC 3 times, but my best performance on it was when we turned around at the top of the cleaver (12,500) in blowing wind and rapidly decreasing visibility. It was a 4th of July climb about 1997 or 1998. I had my 2 daughters and a bunch from OSAT on the climb. We spent a night at Muir, and another at Ingraham Flats. Weather was a bit unsettled, with lenticular clouds now and then. The morning of our summit attempt I remember seeing the RMI light streams come around Cathedral Gap as we were getting on the lower part of the cleaver. We turned around without regrets at the top of the cleaver, and by the time we got back to Camp Muir and looked back, most of the mountain above 11,000 was in a cloud. But I found out RMI turned around at the base of the cleaver, and told my fellow climbers to remember this as the climb when they got 1000 feet higher than RMI. | |
| Posted Aug 15, 2006 5:47 am | ||
| SkydiveKen | 1ST visit Date Climbed: Sep 5, 2005 | |
| Left camp Muir at 2am and topped DC to see the most beautiful sunrise. A snow bridge just above it had collapsed and we had to step over about 4 feet. We returned down the Emmonds and cut across the bottom of the cleaver. Absolute perfect weather no wind and a few wisps of clouds. | |
| Posted Jul 13, 2006 10:15 pm | ||
| gimpilator | Cowlitz Glacier Avalanche Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2005 | |
| Only one white-out on the way to Muir and mild wind all day Sunday. We missed a giant avalanche on the Cowlitz Glacier by about a half hour. It looked like it came down from Cadaver Gap. One rock was the size of a house. Above Ingaham Flat, before dawn on summit day, it was like a four lane highway. So many RMI rope teams... Eleven of our party of thirteen summited. | |
| Posted Jun 28, 2006 5:11 pm | ||
| PellucidWombat | More Interesting Than I Expected Date Climbed: May 20, 2006 | |
| Getting onto the DC was much more exposed and tenuous than I had expected - for me I'd say it was the highlight of the route. We started out at 1am ahead of everyone else but were soon overtaken by guides as we made a wrong turn trying to get around the huge crevasse that had opened up at the bottom of the Cleaver. From there on we were jostling for position with them, arriving at the summit together at about 8am. | |
| Posted May 24, 2006 2:48 am | ||
| Bagger | Nice Lenticular Cloud Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2005 | |
| Aside from fighting with my two best friends all the way up, and getting caught in a bad storm under a lenticular cloud on the Muir snowfield, it was great. And I wouldn't have had it any other way. | |
| Posted Mar 3, 2006 8:01 am | ||
| Johnhl94563 | Great climb Date Climbed: Jun 11, 2004 | |
| Beautiful day on the mountain. After dealing with fog, clouds, rain, snow, and winds at Camp Muir, we started up the mountain and got stuck behind a slow party of 12 that caused us to stop right under the icefall on Ingrahms glacier. The rest of the summit day ended up being a great day on the mountain. Had some natural rockfall near the bottom of Disapointment Cleave that just nicked a team of 2 behind us. | |
| Posted Feb 17, 2006 6:19 pm | ||
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