Mount Rainier Climber's Log

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Shirley Lam

Shirley Lam - Jan 30, 2008 10:31 pm Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2007

Twice...  Sucess!

via the Emmons Glacier and one failed attempt from Camp Muir.

devnull4 - Jan 10, 2008 2:04 pm Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2006

The DC  Sucess!

One of my favorite summits ever!

wrigleyd

wrigleyd - Jan 5, 2008 12:51 am Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2007

DC with a night at Ingraham  Sucess!

Spent a night at Camp Muir, a night at Ingraham Flats, then summited after a 1am start in blowing, icy conditions near the summit.

jeffryrocksu

jeffryrocksu - Jan 1, 2008 1:37 am Date Climbed: Jun 18, 2004

RAINIER  Sucess!

CLIMBED THE DC ROUTE THEN THE 4 DAYS LATER CLIMBED EMMONS ROUTE THAT WAS A BLAST!!

MountainHikerCO

MountainHikerCO - Dec 31, 2007 12:44 am Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2005

DC  Sucess!

We spent 3 nights at Muir. The first night a storm came through so we chose to wait. We went for the summit on the second night/morning. After returning from the summit we were just tired enough to enjoy spending a third night at Muir.

bighornmonkey

bighornmonkey - Dec 25, 2007 9:12 am Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2007

Done...  Sucess!

Reach the top twice via the Emmons Glacier once during the summer and once during the fall. 2 failed attempts via Camp Muir in the fall.

lcarreau

lcarreau - Dec 7, 2007 10:56 pm Date Climbed: Aug 11, 1984

DC Route in 1984  Sucess!

When I made my sucessful summit climb of Rainier in 1984,
there were no cell phones or i-pods. Our guide was Randy
Sackett. We had to hurry it along past the cleaver. Two
climbers were left behind there. The snow conditions were
for the most part favorable. You never know on Rainier!

bgriffs

bgriffs - Nov 27, 2007 2:04 am Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2005

Great Experience  Sucess!

Amazing!

JonW

JonW - Nov 19, 2007 4:20 pm Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2007

DC  Sucess!

Summited via the DC route. A lot of fun. Stayed a Muir after summiting and enjoyed a wonderful sunset and great night of camping.

TRR - Nov 13, 2007 9:47 am Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2007

Emmons Route  Sucess!

Nice long hike up. Cold night start but a beautiful clear day.

k2360tnf

k2360tnf - Nov 6, 2007 6:05 pm Date Climbed: Jul 6, 2006

Summited  Sucess!

Summited the DC route

panweilin

panweilin - Oct 25, 2007 2:48 pm Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2006

Summit in whiteout  Sucess!

Stayed at Muir Camp the night before. Surprisingly there were only few people in the hut during the Independence weekend. We could hardly see anything around at the summit plateau due to the whiteout.

YetiBauer

YetiBauer - Oct 1, 2007 7:24 pm

Kautz Emmons

Kautz July 06 summit
Emmons July 01 summit
Tahoma May 00 unsuccessful due to hot weather

msihl

msihl - Sep 26, 2007 12:54 pm Date Climbed: Sep 24, 2007

Route Climbed: DC/Emmons Glacier

We planned on summiting from the south side (Camp Muir). It was pretty late in the season, so the size of the crevasses made navigation difficult. We got up 2am on summit day and started our ascend at 3am after a good night's sleep in Camp Muir's public shelter. However, we had difficulties finding the trails. From talking to other climbers at CM, I knew that we had to go around the Disappointment Cleaver and reascend on the other (east) side.
I didn't know that we actually had to cross over even further onto Emmons Glacier. So we started wandering around looking for these little red flags but only found old ones that seemed to have been abandoned a while ago. Anyhow, my partner was already pretty tired from the day before after not having slept well for two nights straight and he started complaining about his hurting legs early on. So we decided to turn around noonish and made it back to CM 2.5 hours later. After an hour-long nap we descended
towards Paradise Visitor Center, which was painfully long after a long day on the mountain. We arrived shortly after sunset. I'll try again next year earlier in the season and with more water supplies. Boiling snow is a painfully slow process and the glacier water didn't taste very well either ;)

Blackmouth

Blackmouth - Sep 26, 2007 3:07 am Date Climbed: Jul 21, 2007

Bound to Happen

After a very succesfull year I was bound to have a failed attempt. We tried the Emmons glacier route from Shurman. The forecast was for a storm with terrible winds and the forecast was dead on, but a day early. We made it to about 11,000 feet before the weather turned us around. There is always next year.

DBaker

DBaker - Sep 17, 2007 6:13 pm Date Climbed: Jul 10, 2007

Hot!  Sucess!

80F day on the Muir snowfield, nearly cooked us! On the plus side, it never got below 40F at basecamp that night, and the summit was nice and warm the following morning. Went via the DC route, one large crevasse with suspect snowbridge (RMI put a ladder across it days later, apparently).

mad maximus

mad maximus - Sep 5, 2007 1:11 am Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2007

DC Alternate  Sucess!

Reached the summit at 8:00am. Alternate route under DC. Windy as hell above 12/13k .

dr_gonz

dr_gonz - Sep 4, 2007 3:34 pm

Rainier  Sucess!

Great mountain, great company, great weather. Good times.

Clodhopper

Clodhopper - Sep 3, 2007 8:38 pm Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2007

Modified Emmons  Sucess!

Left around 1130pm, summited at about 800am. Beautiful day looking down on the cloud deck. Can't wait to go back. Wonderful views.

tigerlilly

tigerlilly - Aug 29, 2007 6:36 pm

beautiful mountain  Sucess!

Gorgeous! The trail going up dissapointment cleaver was very well trodden down. Impossible to get lost... Seeing the blue serracs was impressive. Can't wait to go back! We saw 3 boulders the size of cars fall near Ingram Glacier. eeeek! Walk quickly!

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