I usually restrict my trip reports to the Outdoor Board, but I got a pretty good response to my photos, so I thought I'd share. If you are interested in travelling to MRNP or Washington State, here's an example of the Cascades.
I climbed Little Tahoma (11,138’) at Mount Rainier National Park on July 2-3. We left from Paradise at 9:30am on July 2 and got back at 11:30 July 3. There’s a shorter route from the White River part of the park, but we went from Paradise for the challenge of crossing three glaciers. If you could the cumulative elevation gain, we gained nearly 7,000’ – mostly on day 2.
We left Paradise (5,480’) and hiked up the Muir Snowfield to about 8,600’ and started traversing around the mountain. Little Tahoma in the distance.
Our camp on the Cowlitz Glacier.
Getting roped-in at 4:00am.
Sunrise. Looking south to Mount Adams from the Ingraham Glacier.
Little Tahoma as we’re cresting over to the Whitman Glacier.
After a really steep rock scramble in crampons that we would later have to rappel, I took one last pic of the Ingraham Glacier.
The Whitman Crest. The Fryingpan Glacier (standard route) is on the other side.
The views were so awesome, we couldn’t put down our cameras!
Cool clouds… The wind was gusting hard enough to blow people over.
Mount Adams.
The notch (which we also had to rappel) below the final section of steep snow below the summit.
The view from Summit, out of the wind.
An overall view down Little Tahoma and the Whitman Glacier.
Downclimbing…
Pierce County Ag glissading.
Climbers getting ready to rig the rappel down to the Ingraham Glacier.
Pierce County Ag rappelling.
After this, we climbed up to camp, broke everything down and walked out. Back to the cars around 11:30pm. The Muir Snowfield hardened up as temperatures dropped and getting down was a friggin’ ankle twister!
I climbed Little Tahoma (11,138’) at Mount Rainier National Park on July 2-3. We left from Paradise at 9:30am on July 2 and got back at 11:30 July 3. There’s a shorter route from the White River part of the park, but we went from Paradise for the challenge of crossing three glaciers. If you could the cumulative elevation gain, we gained nearly 7,000’ – mostly on day 2.
We left Paradise (5,480’) and hiked up the Muir Snowfield to about 8,600’ and started traversing around the mountain. Little Tahoma in the distance.
Our camp on the Cowlitz Glacier.
Getting roped-in at 4:00am.
Sunrise. Looking south to Mount Adams from the Ingraham Glacier.
Little Tahoma as we’re cresting over to the Whitman Glacier.
After a really steep rock scramble in crampons that we would later have to rappel, I took one last pic of the Ingraham Glacier.
The Whitman Crest. The Fryingpan Glacier (standard route) is on the other side.
The views were so awesome, we couldn’t put down our cameras!
Cool clouds… The wind was gusting hard enough to blow people over.
Mount Adams.
The notch (which we also had to rappel) below the final section of steep snow below the summit.
The view from Summit, out of the wind.
An overall view down Little Tahoma and the Whitman Glacier.
Downclimbing…
Pierce County Ag glissading.
Climbers getting ready to rig the rappel down to the Ingraham Glacier.
Pierce County Ag rappelling.
After this, we climbed up to camp, broke everything down and walked out. Back to the cars around 11:30pm. The Muir Snowfield hardened up as temperatures dropped and getting down was a friggin’ ankle twister!