Alex_Mineev Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 Climb: Mt Rainier-Ingraham Direct Date of Climb: 2/12/2004 Trip Report: Climb: Mt Rainier-Ingraham Direct Date of Climb: 2/12/2004 Trip Report: Excellent weather. Excellent snow. Beautiful mountain. Started on Wednesday from Paradise, 5 hours slog with heavy packs to Muir hut. Light wind helped a lot, otherwise it would be too hot. Met RMI group of 15+ people preparing to go Ingraham the next day. Initially we planned to camp on Ingraham flats to assess route conditions, but RMI group did crevasse rescue training around flats that day and guides were pretty confident in good conditions. So we decided to stay at Muir and start an hour before them next morning... Which was not the case - I did not hear alarm and we woke late at 3.45. So we left the hut at 5 - about an hour after the crowd (5 teams). Almost full moon was bright enough - we did not use headlamps. Caught up with RMI on the flats. They stayed on the mountain for a few days (RMI winter program?) and were very strong, my guess they get just used to the altitude. Anyway, we climbed a separate line up the Ingragaham ice fall in attempt to pass the groups. While on Ingraham one big block of ice 100 meters to the right fell down. This was 10 minutes after sunrise. Other than that things were very smooth. Wind was worm. Snow was very dense all the way up. No problems with route finding. No big crevasses that we had to walk around... At about 13500 we got slow and behind the two leading RMI teams (the first one was leaded by Geo Dunn . Summited at noon, 7 hours sharp from Muir. One hour for pics and rest and 3 hours on the way down. Columbia Crest My summit shot My partner, Aaron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
girlclimber Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 man, you hit it just right. way to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_Mineev Posted February 13, 2004 Author Share Posted February 13, 2004 I was waiting for the weather for two months sitting on my backpack ready to go at any moment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshK Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 Hey Alex, it was good meeting you guys at Muir. Just so you know...I'm still jealous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
girlclimber Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 oh btw, did you see my snowman in the hut?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 Very cool. The RMI group was probably doing expedition training. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Careless_Ev Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 I'm jealous, Very nice! Wish I had more time off to play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_Mineev Posted February 14, 2004 Author Share Posted February 14, 2004 oh btw, did you see my snowman in the hut?? yep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshK Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 Very cool. The RMI group was probably doing expedition training. Just a winter climbing course. I asked one of the guides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_Mineev Posted February 15, 2004 Author Share Posted February 15, 2004 Almost forgot to mention. Could be useful. We were driving from paradise after 6.30 and the Longmire gate was closed. There is an inn in Longmire and the guy at lobby knows the code. He wrote 4 digits on a piece of paper and asked to leave credit card while we driving thru the gate. Returned the card after we returned the code I asked how often they change the code - weekly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 We need more sharp civil servants like the guy at Longmire Inn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thinker Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 We need more sharp civil servants like the guy at Longmire Inn. when are you putting in your application, CBS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 I never would have been clever enough to maintain the secret combination like that. Hey thinker, are you trying to masquerade as JoshK? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshK Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 I never would have been clever enough to maintain the secret combination like that. Hey thinker, are you trying to masquerade as JoshK? huh? I'm confused. I leave for a few days and people and rumors are floating about me or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 Thinker had your avatar image while you were gone, but he slyly switched it back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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