Troy - Manchild #2 is 25 today!

The Descent & Return

We left the summit and headed down and back to Camp Muir where we stayed just long enough to pack up the sleeping gear and belongings we had left there during our summit climb, topped off our water, and fueled our weary bodies with some food.

Mt. Rainier, 14,411' Summit, July 18, 2005

With beautiful weather (windy & cool) we summitted Rainier around 8am Monday morning. The conditions were desirable and our bodies were weary. Two days earlier another team had been turned back at 13,200' due to bad weather. With great gratitude and a sense of accomplishment we met our goal.

Here I am with Mt. Adams in the southern background.

The upper shot looks toward the north with Puget Sound visible in the distance.

Camp Muir on Mount Rainier @ 10,000' at Sunset July 17, 2005

A gorgeous sunset met our gaze as we concluded the first of two days on Mount Rainier. Mount Adams is visible to the South and Mount St. Helens can be seen to the SSW. Earlier this evening Oregon's Mt. Hood was visible - almost directly behind my head in this photo.

Up toward Muir

The warm sun bore down as we made our way up to Camp Muir on Sunday afternoon.

Loading, Hiking, Training, & back to RMI Base

Rainier Mountaineering Inc. has a fine team of qualified mountaineering guides. You may see them at www.rmiguides.com. We loaded our equipment into their vehicles and spent 40 minutes on the road getting to Paradise, WA inside Rainier National Park. Once there, we unloaded, put on our gear & hiked for over an hour to gain several hundred feet in altitude high above our start. The walk through fields of flowers & fog up to the snowfields was magnificent. We spent the day training in cloudy, rainy weather on the snowfields, descended back to the lodge, rode back to Ashford and slept Saturday night.

On toward Rainier Mountaineering

Leaving my folks' home in Auburn, I drove toward Ashford, WA where the training facility, Rainier Mountaineering Inc. is located. Western Washington is beautiful.