Check out the movies page for Pat Brown's Rainier 2000 movie.
It will come at some point. Basically we went, learned a lot about glaciers, crevasses and weather, and came back safely.
I would also like to make each tent group autonomous, so that food, stove and tents are split between two people, and so is the responsability for their cooking and melting of snow; although of course you can ask anyone to watch your food and stuff, but ultimately you are responsible for your own feeding.
Flight information
| Wed 8/30th, 9:11pm | Depart Boston |
| Thu. 8/31, 3:05am | Arrive in seattle |
| Thu. 8/31, 5:00am | buy Food and Fuel at supermarket |
| Thu. 8/31, 8:00am | get permit at white river station, hike to glacier basin (5900ft)(3.3 miles 1848 elev. rise, 120 elev. loss) |
| Thu. 8/31, afternoon | Pratice glacier travel and crevasse rescue at inter glacier |
| Fri. 9/1, morning | Hike to Emmons Flat (9800ft)(2.6 mi, 4067ft elev rise, 315ft elev loss) |
| Fri. 9/1, afternoon | More crevasse fooling around |
| Fri. 9/1, 11:30pm | If weather window good, people feeling fine, and mars and mercury are aligned head for summit (14411ft, 1.8mi, elev rise 4630ft, elev loss 101ft) |
| Sat. 9/2, afternoon | If summit previous day, ZZZ |
| Sat. 9/2, 11:30pm | If no summit previous day, weather window good, people feeling fine, and mars and mercury are aligned head for summit |
| Sat. 9/3, afternoon | If summit on 9/2 previous day,
perhaps go for a dayhike to russel cliffs, more crevasse training, check out base of little tahoma, roam around |
| Sun. 9/3, noon | Depending on availability and people's feeling we can head down to glacier basin |
| Mon. 9/4, 2:00pm | Arrive to trail head, go around mountain and shower |
| Mon. 9/4, 4:00pm | Big Lunch |
| Mon. 9/4, 7:55pm | Depart Seattle |
| Tue. 9/5, 7:26am | Arrive in Boston |