ElectricEric

Which gym and where in Portland?

Very much this. October is a very bad time to be on Liberty Ridge, might want to rethink your plans.

Seconding this. Meru is amazing. Everest is a money grab.

How much?

I could probably make the 18-19 happen. Been up Rainier, Adams, and Shasta for big mountains. Got my Lvl 1 AIARE as well as WFR.

Better luck trying the climbing partners section below. Also I would recommend hitting up some climbing gyms close to you and meeting people there. You might be able to find someone to teach you everything, more than likely though you'll find someone at the same level as you and you guys can learn together.

Jmk, Sent you a PM.

I wouldn't mind joining up with you guys. Moving down to Portland in Feb and I don't know anyone in the area.

What are you looking for? Plans?

To be fair a couple weekends ago my fiance and me went up there after these signs were posted. Obviously going to climb and were bike riding in. Couple trucks passed us and no one stopped. 2 other groups came up with no issues too. Might be more for hunters, and as always YMMV.

Hey Ian, I'd be interested in tagging along. Been awhile since we went up Adams together. I'm in the same boat as you for needing about 3 weeks advance notice, otherwise I'm flexible on dates and pretty much all aspects of this climb.

If you're still looking for people I'm in. Since it looks like you'll be coming from out of town I have a decent selection of group gear that we could use.

That would make sense, where abouts are you located? As for myself, I'm 26 have experience on a few of the cascade volcanoes including successful summit of Rainier. Know glacier travel and crevasse rescue as well as have my AIARE 1 cert. Lastly I'm active duty military right now but Mar 2015 I'll be getting out so I'll have the time for it as well has have plenty of experience being in close quarters, high stress, and first aid knowledge. Mountaineers program is a good one, thats what I went though.

I'd be down to join, 2015 is what works for me. Plenty of time to get money together and I won't have any job commitments at that time.

I'll have to check with work but I'm interested.