{"id":12661,"date":"2014-10-16T10:14:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T18:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=12661"},"modified":"2014-10-16T10:14:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T18:14:06","slug":"from-rainier-to-rocktober","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/16\/guide-features\/from-rainier-to-rocktober\/","title":{"rendered":"From Rainier To Rocktober"},"content":{"rendered":"

October 16, 2014<\/p>\n

So what becomes of our guides when Rainier season wraps up?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0IMG Guide Cedric Gamble sheds a little light on where you might find them…<\/em><\/p>\n

Sunlight crept over the Cascade Volcanoes heralding in the last day of the 2014 Mt. Rainier climbing season. There were nine guides at Camp Muir that morning, so quite a few rounds of French press coffee were brewed. After breakfast two guides took off down the Muir Snowfield with the eight clients of the last climb. The rest of the guides worked as fast as they could to tear down the Weather Port, sort all of the gear, and store it all away in the Gombu for winter. The beautiful morning didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t last, and billowing clouds chased the tear-down team down the mountain. As their boots hit the parking lot the first rain drops began to fall. The winter storm that blew in blanketed Rainier in a fresh coat of white and scattered the guides of IMG. The season known as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rocktober\u00e2\u20ac\u009d has arrived.<\/p>\n