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Lessons Learned on Disappointment Cleaver – Rainier

This trip report may sound unduly harsh but if the saying “good judgment is the result of experience and experience is often the result of bad judgment” then this is a story of developing better judgment.  I’ll apologize in advance for the length but even at over 2300 words it still does not encompass the [...]

Last Minute Rainier Trip

One of the many perks about living in Seattle is the proximity to big mountains.  Last year when I climbed Rainier it was months of training, planning and praying for a good weather window.  Now it’s “oh the weather is nice so lets go climb Rainier” and so I am.  Yesterday I took someone up [...]

Training for Rainier & Training for Mountaineering in General

Training for mountaineering and training for Rainier in particular is an expectations game.  If you don’t know what to expect you fret over every little detail and want to make sure that your training regime is the “right” one for mountaineering.  If you do know what to expect especially on a climb like the standard [...]