May 11, 2018 Things looked promising for our first two climbs of the Rainier season, but as she always does, Mt. Rainier had the final say, which meant no summits for our teams. High winds and low visibility being two of the deciding factors. The good news is that both teams got a good dose […]
May 10, 2018 By IMG Guide Anna Hicks I’ve personally experienced the constraints a person can face on their journey to becoming a mountaineer. Now that I’m a mountain guide, I’m passionate about helping other people achieve their goals in the mountains. Currently women are very underrepresented in mountaineering, and being the only woman on […]
May 7, 2018 Over the weekend several IMG Guides made their way up to Camp Muir to put the final piece of the preseason puzzle together…the weatherport. The weatherport is a temporary 12ft. x 15ft. structure that we use for team meals, guide sleeping and the storage of some of the needed climbing equipment […]
May 2, 2018 The first IMG climb of the Mt. Rainier season is just a few days away and we’re not letting those days go to waste. This morning our newly hired guides gathered at IMG for our annual new guide training. The goal for these three days is to get them up to […]
April 30, 2018 Every spring IMG Guides come together for our annual Guide Training weekend just before the start of the Rainier climbing season. This year we packed the room with 37 Guides. Saturday is typically reserved for getting to know the new guides (10 this year), discussing any new protocols, a refresher on […]
April 27, 2018 Our final Denali Prep Seminar sipped on coffee this morning at Camp Muir enjoying their last views of the trip. The walk down the Muir Snowfield took them into the clouds below and back to reality. Once down at Paradise they loaded up the van and made their way back to […]
April 26, 2018 The photos pretty much say it all. The great weather continues for the Denali Prep Seminar on Mt. Rainier. Lead Guide Betsy Dain-Owens reports that her team took a walk across the Cowlitz Glacier, though the Cathedral Gap, up to The Flats to take a look at the upper mountain. While tempted […]
April 25, 2018 Lead Guide Betsy Dain-Owens checked in from Camp Muir reporting more good weather for her Denali Prep Seminar. The team is taking full advantage of the weather by doing some crevasse rescue training today along with some fixed line work on Muir Peak. We’re two weeks from the start of the Rainier […]
April 24, 2018 IMG Senior Guide Betsy Dain-Owens reports that the good weather continues on Mt. Rainier! The team had a great day of training around their first camp yesterday and opted to take advantage of the good weather and head up to Camp Muir today. Getting up to Camp Muir this time of […]
April 23, 2018 Justin Merle began guiding on Mt. Rainer in 1999 and hasn’t stopped. Since his first climb as a guide, he’s accumulated over 160 summits of Mt. Rainier and countless other summits here in the Great Pacific Northwest and worldwide, including seven summits of Mt. Everest. Merle, an AMGA certified Alpine Guide, has […]
