April 16, 2009 As planned the team awoke at 4am, had a quick breakfast and started out in the early morning… The route they were heading up was ‘Gib Ledges’; a popular early season & winter route. As the team approached Gib Chute they stopped to evaluate the snow conditions. Guides Mark Allen and Ben […]
April 15, 2009 I spoke with Lead Guide Mark Allen today and the sun at Camp Muir continues to shine! Blueberry pancakes and fried bacon woke the team up and fueled them for another solid training day, but an early dinner and a 4am wake-up call will put the team in their sleeping bags a […]
Lead Guide Mark Allen called in on the sat phone from Camp Muir a few minutes ago… The Team had a great day hiking up to Muir. The trail-breaking wasn’t too bad after the last couple days of snow. It’s sunny and warm with minimal wind up there now! The plan is to do some […]
April 13, 2009 Denali like conditions kept our next “Denali Seminar” in camp today. I drove the team to the Paradise Parking Lot in Mt. Rainier National Park yesterday in very winter like conditions… Not the Spring Easter we were hoping for. Some fresh snow was covering the freshly plowed parking lot as the team […]
April 1, 2009 Our Mt. Rainier Denali Seminar snuck up to Paradise during a small weather window on Monday. Since then they’ve been training down low on the mountain hoping for some better conditions which would allow them to move up to Camp Muir. So far, that hasn’t been the case, as storms have been […]
This is good and very popular question! We start guiding the “summer season” in May and guide Rainier through the end of September. That said, the conditions on the mountain change throughout the season. Below is a quick look at how it shakes out… Remember there are pros and cons to climbing at any time […]
International Mountain Guides Partners George Dunn and Phil Ershler will be speaking at a couple different REI’s this week. The talks will be geared towards climbing Mt. Rainier…which as you might know George and Phil know a little bit about. George has more summits of Mt. Rainier than anybody in the world having reached the […]
What a beautiful day on the mountain! Our 6-day Winter Seminar wrapped up their trip with an excellent walk down to Paradise today. It was such a nice day that IMG Partner Eric Simonson and I set out early this morning to meet them on the Muir Snowfield. We bumped into them above Panarama Point, […]
Thursday, Feb. 19 Lead Guide Greg Vernovage radioed in this morning from Camp Muir. The Winter Seminar group has had some great weather above the clouds and it looks like that continues today… Greg and fellow guide Aaron Mainer didn’t feel comfortable crossing the Cowlitz Glacier this morning due to avalanche concerns so the team […]
