{"id":1488,"date":"2010-09-13T08:15:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T16:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2010-09-13T08:19:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T16:19:12","slug":"confessions-of-a-glutton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/13\/mt-rainier\/confessions-of-a-glutton\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessions Of A Glutton"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 13, 2010<\/p>\n

Earlier this season we had a blast taking several of our friends over at Outdoor Research<\/a> up Mt. Rainier. Below is a peak into their experience.\u00c2\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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Confessions of a Glutton
\nBy Teresa Bruffey of Outdoor Research<\/p>\n

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Outdoor Research Rainier team working the Muir Snowfield.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do you have any extra room in your pack?,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d my roommate asked in a breathless voice punctuated with a bit of urgency \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it was late after all on the night before my departure. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do you have just a little bit of room?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Well, sure.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a pretty efficient packer. So, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153yes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, I replied as I skimmed my packing list for last minute essentials that I may have forgotten at this late stage of prep.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have a blessing for you\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d My sweet friend had carried a wish back with her from Nepal, a trip she took last fall before I was lucky enough to meet her. My blessing, carried so far, is so simple and beautiful; a few pieces of rice wrapped in paper and carefully closed with bright colorful thread. To be honest, I dont know if there is meaning to the colors of thread or the way it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wrapped. I dont know if the paper holds special significance. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not even sure, really if there is actually rice in there since I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite feel it through all the paper.<\/p>\n

I could, however, read the words of the prayer written by Lama Geshe from Pangpoche:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Give up all intention to harm others from your heart,
\nAnd do your best to benefit them all,
\nIf each and everyone feels the universal responsibility to do so,
\nWe will all enjoy the feast of peace.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Good times at Camp Muir!<\/p><\/div>\n

Hmm. I also knew the love that carried the blessing from my friend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hands to mine, and that carefully watched this blessing be placed in a special spot in my pack. From one climber to another were passed the hopes for safe travel, for success, and most of all, for an amazing experience to mark a significant moment in life. Sara\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s small gesture was a nugget of strength that helped me climb to over 14,400\u00e2\u20ac\u00b2 this past July. (little did she know, those 10 months ago in Nepal, that this little package would be so important to an then-unknown girl on a glacier, high in the sky \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I love unexpected connections like this.)<\/p>\n

Two days later, as I made my way with my team and our amazing guides from International Mountain Guides, from Paradise to Muir, we passed a number of groups enjoying the bluebird day and the views the mountain had to share. One family made a big deal of moving to the side \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u0153look, climbers!!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I almost felt like a celebrity -*blush, blush* \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and a little pride glowing at my hope to summit. As we passed, the father asked, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153how far will you go?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153To the top!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d one of my teammates replied.<\/p>\n

(Read the full story on OR’s Verticulture site)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

September 13, 2010 Earlier this season we had a blast taking several of our friends over at Outdoor Research up Mt. Rainier. Below is a peak into their experience.\u00c2\u00a0 Enjoy! —————————————————————————- Confessions of a Glutton By Teresa Bruffey of Outdoor Research \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do you have any extra room in your pack?,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d my roommate asked in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mt-rainier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}