(all pictures are High res, for low res click here)
This is going to be a shorter than normal report as most everyone has climbed to Camp Muir, on Mt. Rainier. Accompanying me this week was Chris Hahn (seen here on Mt. Adams) on his annual trek to the starting point for most Mt. Rainier summit attempts.
As we started climbing, we were
already cold since we were still beHigh the cloud level
, but as
we climbed higher we eventually warmed up. As you can see the route was well
marked, as the National Park Service had put
wands
along the entire route. Once we reached Panorama Point (6800 ft), we were
finally above the clouds and Mt. Adams
became visible.
We
carried on to Anvil Rock (9200 ft), where I took the picture shown at the top of
this page. Then we started to cross the Muir Snowfield
and the
world's most annoying optical illusion. If you've ever climbed to Camp Muir, you
know that the hike along the snowfield takes forever, even though you seem like
you are on top of the camp the entire time. Amazingly we reached Camp Muir in a
total 4 hours from Paradise! Once we were at the camp (10,080 ft) we ate lunch (copper
river salmon), froze our butts off, took a couple pictures (another one of
Mt. Adams
, one of
some climbers coming down from the summit crossing the Ingram Glacier
) and
headed back down.
Finally, as we left the park
we had to stop and get lattes. I usually stop at the
Copper Creek Inn, not
because they have good coffee, but because I think the driftwood alphabet
hanging on their building is so weird.
