Climbing Mount Rainier
Mount Rainier National Park, Washington State, United States
 
 1. Seattle and Paradise Trails
Rainier as viewed from Seattle
 
Paradise Trails
 
First Hike to Camp Muir
 
One Day Climb Up to Ingraham Flats, for acclimatation and recognition. 5 AM.
 
Back from Ingraham Flats.
 
2. Hiking to Camp Muir
At Paradise Ranger Station, 
for the real ascent this time
Hiking Paradise Trails, toward Peeble Creek
Peeble Creek
Peeble Creek
Muir Snowfield
Camp Muir
Camp Muir.  See the barrels of "human waste" next to the privy.  They're taken out by helicopter from time to time.
 
Camp Muir 
Camp Muir, 6:30 PM
 
3. Rainier Summit
Sun rising on Emmons Glacier, 
5:15 AM, after 5:15 of climbing.
Tahoma and the many climbers
that followed us
The last switchback, 
then another "last switchback", 
then another one..., maybe the next one, ...
The crater.  The actual summit is behind.
With my wife Angela. 
She had altitude sickness since the cleaver.
I didn't know she could be so "tough"
Our friends Isabelle and Jean-Francois.
Like Angela, Jean-Francois wasn't having too much fun at this (high) point !!!
Angela crying (really!!!) on the way down
Tahoma
Ingraham Flats, looking back at what we had walked in the dark at 2:00 AM.
Before Cathedral Gap
Our party back at Muir at 12:30,
after near 13 hours of walk up to 14400 ft
Our route, August 1998
The route across Cowlitz (Calice) Glacier, that we had made at 12:00 AM.
 
Down to Peeble Creek and Paradise
The Award
 
4. Hikes in Sunrise Area
Sunrise Trails: Trail to Frozen Lake
 
Sunrise Trails
Burroughs Range
 
Burroughs Range, looking at Inter Glacier