{"id":22332,"date":"2019-05-07T10:29:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T18:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=22332"},"modified":"2019-05-07T10:38:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T18:38:19","slug":"mt-rainier-climbing-season-starts-with-a-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/07\/mt-rainier\/mt-rainier-climbing-season-starts-with-a-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Mt. Rainier Climbing Season Starts With a Summit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 7, 2019<\/p>\n<p>IMG lead guide Nickel Wood called down from the summit of Mt. Rainier this morning at 8:00 am to report that the entire team summited today in perfect conditions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22333\" style=\"width: 1489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/summit-climb-high-break_nickel_wood.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[22332]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/summit-climb-high-break_nickel_wood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1479\" height=\"995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/summit-climb-high-break_nickel_wood.jpg 1479w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/summit-climb-high-break_nickel_wood-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/summit-climb-high-break_nickel_wood-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/summit-climb-high-break_nickel_wood-1024x689.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/summit-climb-high-break_nickel_wood-940x632.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/summit-climb-high-break_nickel_wood-620x417.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/summit-climb-high-break_nickel_wood-195x131.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1479px) 100vw, 1479px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">High break on the way to the summit (Nickel Wood)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What a great way to start the season. The weather for the rest of the week looks equally good.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22334\" style=\"width: 1930px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/summit-just-below_nickel_wood.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[22332]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22334\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/summit-just-below_nickel_wood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/summit-just-below_nickel_wood.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/summit-just-below_nickel_wood-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/summit-just-below_nickel_wood-768x520.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/summit-just-below_nickel_wood-1024x693.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/summit-just-below_nickel_wood-940x636.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/summit-just-below_nickel_wood-620x420.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/summit-just-below_nickel_wood-195x132.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Almost there! (Nickel Wood)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Currently the route to the summit heads directly up the Ingraham Glacier (Ingraham Direct Route), avoiding Disappointment Cleaver. This is a more direct route usually only an option in early May, until crevasses start to open on the glacier. The route will move to the Disappointment Cleaver when conditions call for the switch.<\/p>\n<p>George Dunn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 7, 2019 IMG lead guide Nickel Wood called down from the summit of Mt. Rainier this morning at 8:00 am to report that the entire team summited today in perfect conditions. What a great way to start the season. The weather for the rest of the week looks equally good. Currently the route to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mt-rainier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22336,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22332\/revisions\/22336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}