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Old 10-29-2007, 06:30 PM   #1
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Mount Rainier - Emmons Winthrop 5/29/2007


Here's some 'content' from this summer

We left the car at 4pm, arrived at sherman in time for sunset. Spent a pleasant night there under a blazing moon and headed for the summit at 6:00am. Arrived on the summit around noon, hung out for a while feeling dehydrated and altitude sick and went down. Then we drove 10 hours to Missoula, which I would not reccomend as a post-summit activity.


there she is. Our route goes up the best looking way on lookers right

At the bottom of the interglacier we saw two guys packing up some sleds, they had just straightlined about 3,000' vert of 20-30 degree slopes on the interglacier on orange plastic sleds. I would have loved to have seen the terror on their faces rocketing by at 60mph. . .



taking a break


the top. Nice weather.


down. . .


We were VERY fortunate to have perfect weather. No clouds and only a light breeze to keep the heat of the sun away. Good times. . .


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Old 10-30-2007, 10:20 AM   #2
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Simply awesome!
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Old 11-06-2007, 01:02 AM   #3
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Wow... what a view. I would have soiled myself if I had tried to come down that on a saucer. But on skiis, thats a different story. Looks like a great experience.
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Nice pics and great view. I think i can see my house from up there..........in NC!!!
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those Janaks are a heavy ski to carry up that mountain. Cool pics though and nice bc setup for the winter.
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