Mt Rainier

[briejer]

I already have made 2 solo assents up the DC this year. My last trip was non stop. I left Paradise at 5pm and reached the summit at 4am(11hours), watched the sunrise, had coffee and oatmeal then down in 5 hours.

Tomorrow I will leave Paradise at 6pm and try to summit in under 9 hours. My weight is under 210, and I will have 12-15 pounds in my pack. Conditions are prime.

Wish me luck

a few picks from last trip

 

[notstock]

Good Luck!:awesomework:

 

[zip1]

Going to be a beautiful day for a climb...good luck on achieving your goal, take more pics :awesomework:

 

[JOOP]

LOL. .I was up there yesterday. I didn't go for the summit, one of these days I would like to, I think I can do it. I just need to buy all the gear. :booo:

 

[pokey]

hope you had a good trip Robin I might be taking you up on your offer

 

[BodyDamage]

That looks like so much fun...I wanna go!

 

[boxboy]

So Robin how did it go?

Some day I would like to go up with you that would be cool to do! :awesomework:

 

[JOOP]

12-15lbs on your back isn't much at all. Should be a pretty nice hike.

 

[Flexy Backhand]

My contribution....

 

[briejer]

I made it, but it did not go as planned. I agreed to bring my nephew and his friend up and leave them at Muir while I summit. We left Paradise at 6:30pm. It was basically babysitting the whole way, I get them in their tent at 11:00pm then leave for the summit. I summit at 6:00am. Conditions we not nearly as good as the previous climbs. Earlier there was snow from Paradise all the way up, and the cleaver was still snowed in. I can make good time in snow, but bare rock trail and loose volcanic **** rock for most of the Cleaver beat me up. At 13,000 I was toast, it was 3 breaths to one step, but I perservered and made it. The descent killed me, once again I'm great in snow, but it was so melted out that every step on a bare rock slowed me down. I reached the car at 2:30pm.

So.....12.5 hours to summit(and babysit) then 8.5 hours down.

Rainier and I are done this year, I need snow!

I should have tossed the Marmot in their tent:awesomework:

 

[briejer]

The sunrise, then a crowd on top, and a little crevasse I stepped over.

 

[briejer]

Can you see the route in the first picture?

Second one is just a random shot on the upper mountian.

 

[GRNTACO]

Fantastic Robin!

 

[Totalled]

Is that video of you at the summit from a couple of years ago still kicking around somewhere?

 

[briejer]

I forgot about that....might be on you tube??

 

[Flexy Backhand]

thats sick man!!!!! :awesomework: sweet pics

 

[Totalled]

I forgot about that....might be on you tube??

I searched and could not find it.. I thought you might know where it's hiding..? :eeek:

 

[Boxxerace]

sweet! Still need to get up Rainier. I have only skied from Muir before.

 

[briejer]

sweet! Still need to get up Rainier. I have only skied from Muir before.

Go next spring and you can safely ski the entire mountian.

I have not skied for 15+ years, but am thinking about a rondane set up.

 

[briejer]

I searched and could not find it.. I thought you might know where it's hiding..? :eeek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG2T6BmjA_U