[TR] Mt. Rainier- Ingraham Glacier (attempt) 12/9/2005

[tthirloway]

Climb: Mt. Rainier-Ingraham Glacier (attempt)

 

Date of Climb: 12/9/2005

 

Trip Report:

three of us (ben, max, ty) skinned up to muir on thursday 12/8. hard snow, snowshoes or just boots would have been fine. beautiful weather the whole day.

on friday, we left the shelter around 4am for an attempt at gib ledges. very strong winds (40-50mph) forced us to turn around without making much progress. later that morning, after some sleep, the three of us decided to head up cadaver gap to check things out. no problems crossing the cowlitz or getting up the gap (mostly hard snow, no rockfall to speak of) despite the strong wind. when we got to the ingraham, we decided to head around cathedral rock and descend cathedral gap. however, as we started to traverse across the glacier i soon fell into a crevasse. it was thinly but fully covered so we couldn't see it, but the snow offered no support. it was narrow enough that i was able to stop the fall and climb out on my own, but it was deep and wide enough to be potentially dangerous. IF YOU GO UP THE INGRAHAM BE VERY CAREFUL OF THINLY COVERED CREVASSES! after that, we decided to descend cadaver and did so without incident, then finished off the trip by skiing down to paradise in beautiful (but windy) weather.

 

Gear Notes:

bring pickets and rescue gear

 

Approach Notes:

the wind took care of any powder above panorama so it's easy-going.

[Arc]

Good TR and Beta.

TX!