May 18, 2018 IMG Senior Guide Mike Haft checked in from The Flats this afternoon reporting calm conditions and fluctuating cloud layers. The winds are calm, and are forecasted to stay that way, so it looks like they’ll get chance to climb tonight/tomorrow…only one way to know for sure though, get up at midnight […]
May 17, 2018 Yesterday IMG Guide Peter Stone along with RMI Guides Ben Ammon and Grayson Swingle set the logos aside and took full advantage of a day off & good spring skiing conditions on Mt. Rainier. Their agenda was a climb of the DC route (currently the Ingraham Direct) and then a ski […]
May 14, 2018 After a couple bumps in the road, our third team of the Mt. Rainier season summited via the Ingraham Direct in good form yesterday morning with IMG Guides Rikki Dunn, Willie Webster, Nickel Wood and Peter Stone leading the way. The reports are that it’s a steep, but direct route to the […]
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 […]
