RaisedByPikas

All you need to know in a technical sense is self arrest, how to use crampons, and how to glissade. Like Jeffrey said, wait for the road to melt out. You should be safe if you plan your trip for early/mid July. If its sunny you will want LOTS of sunscreen. There should be no crevasse danger unless you get way off route and I personally wouldn't bring a helmet for rockfall.

Unfortunately, that is not the pole I found.

Not sure why I wrote that here, sorry. I remember seeing some spam a few days ago but I must have had two windows open and posted in the wrong one or something. Or maybe I was the third post in this thread and the spam was deleted.

Found a ski/trekking pole on the way up to artist point buried in some avy debris. I hope your ok, describe it and its yours again.

Sweet Baby Jesus!

Wow, that whole rope team would have been gone if it had collapsed a few seconds earlier because they were all on that same "feature".

Your odds pretty much the same with either route. In July I think the success rate is about 60% for both routes. If you are concerned about fatigue it will be a problem on both routes, not one or the other. There will be less crowds on the emmons.

How do you report spam?

So what someone meant in your other post when they said that "your climbing resume was more important than your skin color" was when you were asking for partners on intermediate to advanced climbs on rainier you should probably tell use what you have climbed. That way people that are interested can evaluate whether they think you are up to the task or not. Of course if you have a bunch of trip reports credited to your name then it serves the same purpose.

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i guess i should read gooder.

Did they come from the factory like that or did the cracks develop after some use? The first is QC the second is possibly an R&D issue for such new cams.

look at the for sale section at this website rcgroups

At least there is one person in this state that uses it for something other than getting sweet videos of their lines down blue groomers.

Its only a matter of time and this should probably be made a sticky along with the recalls if it is true. It is a little suspicious that Petzl wouldn't have this on their website though. The really disconcerting part is apparently how good these supposed fakes are. With the fake arcteryx stuff its really easy to tell the difference.

Check out caving gear for your sport rappelling needs.

Both of those look OK to me to use primarily for glaciers and snow fields. As long as you have practiced with them you should be fine.

Man, nothing gets me going in the morning than a heated geography debate.

Take a look at Sahale Peak for when summer rolls around. Its a good intro to easy alpine climbing with both moderate snow and 4th class rock.

I didnt mean to say there was a need and I personally don't think there is. I meant to say that if the park really wanted those buildings they could get them if they put more of the concessoners money towards them. The services that I really think are necessary/ejoyable are the waste removal at the high camps, an updated climbing conditions blog, and rangers at the two high camps. Huge fines for abandoned blue bags would be nice too but not very enforceable.

I had great service at feathered friends when my wife and I got our AT setups during their preseason sale. Also it always feels nice to use REI's parking when going to FF.

"Mount Rainier National Park receives approximately $350,000 annually from the combined franchise fees of the three mountaineering concessioners. Franchise fees from all park concessioners (there are 5, total) are pooled and prioritized by park management for use on concession-related needs. Franchise fees augmented Line Item Construction funding and helped to support the recently completed structural rehabilitation of the historic Paradise Inn, and construction of the new Jackson Memorial Visitor Center. Franchise fees have also been used for projects such as the new roof and painting of the National Park Inn and Paradise Inn electrical upgrades. Since 2008, franchise fees have funded a climbing ranger to monitor the climbing concessions on the upper mountain. Franchise fees were also used for a major renovation of the Camp Muir Public Shelter. $54,000 in franchise fees are programmed to support the climbing program in 2011. The park will use franchise fees to complete the Camp Muir Development Concept Plan and then to implement the plan, including the replacement of toilets and other facilities at Camp Muir. The renovation of Camp Muir could include a new public shelter and/or guide-client building, as well as general rock wall and soil stabilization. Over a million dollars in franchise fees would be needed to complete all of these Camp Muir-related projects." Seems like it would take less than 5 years to save the money needed for all of the camp muir projects if the climbing concessions get all of their money back in improvements. Personally I think they should just raise the entrance fee by $5 and the annual by $10. It would generate a lot more money and we probably wouldn't care as much. The general public would grumble but it wouldn't reduce visitor counts.

I wont be at the meeting however I sent them an email asking some questions and never got an answer. If you look through their budget numbers then you will see that most of the money generated by the climbing concessions does not go back into the climbing program. It goes to some pool that is then used to benefit all of the concessions in some way. I want to know what that money gets used on and why more of it can't go back to the climbing program. The bottom line is the park service is going to do what they want and there isn't much that these meetings will change.

This is what I took away too. There is a difference between a ski boundary rope and a closed area. Out of bounds is not closed.

Just out of curiosity, how close were you to the edge on that top shot?