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
July 17, 2009 The season of summits continues on Mt. Rainier this week with a solid forecast… however it might get a little windy on the upper mountain over the weekend so we’ll see how our teams do. On the schedule these next few days will be a Kautz Climb, an Emmons Climb a Disappointment […]
July 2, 2009 The summit season continues here at IMG! Lead Guide Justin Merle arrived here at HQ after having 100% of his team on top yesterday on the Kautz. The Ice Chute is in good shape and the team rolled back into camp at just over 13 hours on summit day – nice work […]
Last Saturday the team gathered for the half-day orientation and instruction day here at HQ. Guides: Brian Warren, Andy Polleczek, Karl Rigrish and Austin Shannon. Our climbers were from all over the place but several of them already new each other so that made for a pretty fun group. The others who came independently fit […]
June 20, 2009 Today – Justin Merle and crew head up the DC on a 3-day climb… They’ll pass IMG Guide Jason Tanguay and his team on their way down after summitting on a sunset climb yesterday…pretty cool! Also today our next Kautz and Liberty Ridge teams will meet here at HQ for gear check, […]
June 17, 2009 IMG Guide Brian Warren called in this afternoon and reported that the team is camped at roughly 10,700 near the Kautz Headwall. The winds are calm and they’re in and out of the clouds… sunny one minute… clouds the next. They plan on heading up late tonight/early tomorrow (depending on your perspective!)… […]
June 11, 2009 IMG Guides Brian Warren and Aaron Mainer took the team to the summit on Tuesday morning.The team had great weather and specifically enjoyed the technical parts of this climb.To keep them honest they did get hit with some weather on their way down. All in all it was about as smooth a […]
