January 4, 2012 Park Ranger Margaret Anderson, 34, was fatally shot on Sunday, January 1 at Mount Rainier National Park. After a driver failed to pull over during a routine traffic stop, Ranger Anderson set up a road block to intercept the driver. The assailant got out of his vehicle and shot Ranger Anderson and […]
Mt. Rainier
Good Morning Mt. Rainier!
December 13, 2011 Not a bad drive into work this morning! Tye Chapman
Some Gift Ideas For The Rainier Climber In Your Life
December 6, 2011 IMG Guide Eben Reckord goes through the gear necessary for one of our 3-day climbs of Mt. Rainier via the DC Route. Tye Chapman
Expect The Best; Prepare For The Worst
November 16, 2011 If you ever plan on climbing Denali then you’ll have to take on Mt. Rainier in the winter. Winter mountaineering experience is required by all Denali guide services and Mt. Rainier, with its world record snowfall and Denali-like conditions, is the place to do it. Even if you don’t have your eyes […]
Fall Guide Training: Rock Rescue
October 6, 2011 As part of IMG regularly scheduled guide training we ran a guides’ rock rescue course last weekend in Eastern Washington. 15 members of the IMG guide staff turned out. All the guides agreed the training session was an excellent review of current information, and we all came away with a few new […]
2011 Rainier Season All Wrapped Up
October 5, 2011 Snow is falling at Paradise on Mt. Rainier bringing another summer to a screeching halt. It never fails, the summer flies by before we even know it started… climbers come and go and guides pack, climb, unpack & repeat. Before we know it climbers and guides alike are all gone, back to […]
The Challenge Of Rainier – 40th Anniversary Edition
September 25, 2011 The Challenge of Rainier – 40th Anniversary Edition by Dee Molenaar is set to be released in October. The 40th anniversary edition includes restored illustrations and historical photographs, and a new foreword by Ed Viesturs as well as updated route information, accident statistics, and more through 2010. To those viewing Mount Rainier […]
2011 JanSport Rainier Climb Video
September 14, 2011
Fall Helicopter Flight On Rainer
September 9, 2011 The annual Fall Flight went off without a hitch earlier this week on Mt. Rainier. We successfully flew up several cylinders of propane, a new floor to our Weatherport and a few other odds and ends. IMG Partners Phil Ershler and Eric Simonson, who combined have been to Muir over 1000 times, […]
Sunrise At The Ingraham Flats
September 7, 2011 A big thank you to Evann Strathern who put this video together on a recent climb of Mt. Rainier!