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 […]
June 6, 2009 As expected the early season route up the Ingraham Direct has shifted to the standard summer route on the Disappointment Cleaver. IMG Guides Eben Reckord and Mike Haft spent some time shoveling out the route to the nose of the cleaver last week and our team this morning reported that the route […]
May 31, 2009 Earlier this week IMG Guides Erica Engle, Eric Gullickson, Austin Shannon and Brian Warren summitted Mt. Rainier via Liberty Ridge… About Liberty Ridge: Liberty Ridge on Mt. Rainier is a very serious, technically difficult and physically demanding ascent that is reserved for strong climbers with prior climbing experience. The route is a […]
We had 100% on top this morning! The group just pulled into IMG HQ and reported that it was pretty windy on top today but not windy enough to stop them. They summitted around 6:15am and promptly turned around and headed back down to camp. The route continues on the Ingraham Direct for now. Our […]
May 28, 2009 Well it was just too windy on the upper mountain for our last Rainier climb. The group got up to about 12,500ft and conditions were not improving so the guides made the safe decision and turned around. They all returned safely to Camp Muir in good spirits and cruised on down to […]
