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beefy
Trad climber
Adelaide, Australia
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Jul 19, 2006 - 12:47am PT
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beautiful. great stuff
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WBraun
climber
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Jul 19, 2006 - 01:30am PT
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Glad you did it Jerry.
You know it was worth it. Very cool Trip report, thanks.
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Kartch
climber
Mutahna
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Jul 19, 2006 - 11:54am PT
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Awsome TR, Rainier is so sweet. Climbed it a few times and it's always been freezing on top. Good for you guys ticking LR and not even taking a full week off work. Inspireing, very inspireing.
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David
Trad climber
San Rafael, CA
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Jul 19, 2006 - 12:26pm PT
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Great report. Thanks for taking the time to post this!
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Gunkie
climber
East Coast US
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Jul 19, 2006 - 12:34pm PT
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Thanks for sharing! That's completely cool.
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Zander
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Jul 19, 2006 - 08:58pm PT
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Thanks for the photos!
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Bodega, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 20, 2006 - 02:36am PT
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Thanks Guys.
Yeah Jody, that's me. Looking grizzled. It's always fun to get one of those self inflicted shots when you're still psyched and dirty.
This one was during the Tien Shan trip (2000). It's still my favorite.
BTW: I expect reciprocal trip reports, and less political BS. We have the news for that. :-) Just got back from Desolation Wilderness. Caught some nice brookies, but no climbing :-(
Cheers!
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Scared Silly
Trad climber
UT
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Jul 20, 2006 - 11:18am PT
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"... not even taking a full week off work. Inspiring, very inspiring."
Actually, this is fairly easy to do. Over the past 10 years I have done 5 long weekend trips to Rainier including one winter trip where we had to walk in from Carbon River Ranger Station and got up on the Willis Wall. The gig is the following:
Day 1
Fly into Seattle in the morning.
Rent a car - do it on line (cheap as $20 a day for weekends).
Stop by REI and pick up white gas - the store is 10 min from airport.
Drive to the trailhead (typically Ipsut Creek for me, it is only an 90min out of Seattle, White River is a bit longer).
Hike into a mid height camp typically around 7-8k for a Norwand route (Willis, Liberty, Ptarmigan, Mowich - Curtis is best done from White RIver).
Day2
Climb up to hIgh camp at around 10k.
Day3
Summit, descend to and sleep at Shurman.
Day 4
Walk out via Wintrop back to Itsup Creek
Bath in Carbon River
Drive back to Seattle - dump extra white gas in car
Fly home
A few times we have had to take a flight the next morning and go into work a little late but for the most part it always worked out.
The best source of info is Mike Gauthier's blog:
http://www.mountrainierclimbing.blogspot.com
Mike is a super nice guy, as are all of the Rainier climbing rangers.
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Bodega, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 20, 2006 - 01:16pm PT
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Damn, Jody. Always outdoing me! Hope you had fun.
SS. Good plan. You could definitley do the route much faster. I'm sure its been done in a day. At miminum you could spend first night on Curtis Ridge, then blast up and back down next day. Driving all night sucked all our energy. Could have knocked at least a full day or two off the trip if we had flown. We started super late each day, trying to catch up on sleep. We didn't leave Thumb Rock until well after sunrise. It wasn't an alpine start to say the least. Oh well. It was the first time up there and we figured some stuff out to do/not to do next time. How are those other routes?
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