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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
September 14, 2011
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, […]
September 7, 2011 A big thank you to Evann Strathern who put this video together on a recent climb of Mt. Rainier!
September 6, 2011 The long wait is over…our 2012 Rainier dates have been released! We’re not quite done this year on Mt. Rainer but we’re already looking forward to another great season on Mt. Rainier next year. We’ll have all the classic climbs like the 3.5 Day Disappointment Cleaver, 4.5 Day Emmons and 4 or […]
August 25, 2011 Here at IMG we like to have a little fun whenever we can and sometimes it comes at the cost of a little extra work by others. In this case it comes in the form of a little extra weight in the pack of IMG Guide Jess Culver. You see, she made […]
August 13, 2011 Working for a guide service is not without potential hazard to one’s health — especially when your job consists of sitting in front of a computer eight hours a day. I’ve worked in the IMG administrative office since the winter of 2007. Though given encouragement and opportunity to go on any number […]
