March 5, 2010 As our Mt. Rainier season fills up we get questions about other climbs here in the Pacific Northwest and the answer is simple: climb in the North Cascades and you will not be dissappointed! The North Cascades of Washington are a climber’s playground and offer a complete variety of challenges in a […]
November 6, 2009 Our Winter Expeditions take place in mid-winter: January and February. It’s a great opportunity to climb Rainier when conditions can be quite extreme, providing valuable experience in cold weather, high altitude conditions. IMG Partners Eric Simonson and George Dunn developed the Winter Expedition Seminar as guides on Mt. Rainier in the mid-eighties and have […]
September 18, 2009 Earlier this week we released our 2010 Rainier climbing dates… We’ve had lots of calls already and look forward to many more! Mt. Rainier is a very popular climb and our summer tends to fill up quickly… If you’re thinking about climbing in 2010 it’s best to plan ahead and get your […]
Aug. 20, 2009 A few of us took another flight around Mt. Rainier yesterday…Â Warm weather continues out here which is quite obvious after looking at the Muir Snowfield yesterday. It’s amazing how fast things change up there as the summer sun beats down on the mountain.Tons of crevasses on the snowfield have made themselves […]
August 1, 2009 Yesterday evening IMG Guide Jenni Fogle took a few of us flying! A big deal for the three of us but not to Jenni who flies KC-135’s and Global Hawks for the Air Force Reserve! So we met at the airfield at 6:00pm and jumped in the little Cessna 4-seater and away […]
July 29, 2009 The team climbed yesterday as scheduled…. and made the summit! From the photos it looked like a beautiful morning to climb Mt. Rainier! They’ve probably already had some breakfast this morning and are well on their way back to the trailhead – arrival is usually around noon or 1pm. They’ll be picked […]
July 27, 2009 The Emmons team has moved to their second camp at Camp Schurman at 9500ft. They’ll try for the summit tonight and make their way back to this camp tomorrow morning…then make their way out to the trailhead on Thursday… Another look at the team… Photos by Greg Vernovage (cell phone).
July 27, 2009 Last night and early this morning IMG Guide Greg Vernovage emailed me some photos of their first camp… Not bad considering he’s on Mt. Rainier and taking these photos with his cell phone! Camp 1 before some digging… Inter Glacier on Mt. Rainier at roughly 8000ft A look at Camp 1 after […]
July 26, 2009 IMG Guide Greg Vernovage emailed me this photo last night to illustrate the size of the team he’ll be leading up Mt. Rainier this week via the Emmons Glacier…Greg’s a big boy coming in at well over 6ft… (6ft. 3in I think) so as you can imagine he’s usually the tall guy […]
July 19, 2009 Mt. Rainier DC Route – Early July IMG Guide Mike Haugen tracked his climb and overlayed it on google earth… Pretty cool! —- Tye Chapman Operations Manager
