The sun coming up at High Break on Rainier
The highlights had to have been a stormy trip on Shuksun, a climb of the West Ridge of Forbidden and a sunset climb on Mt. Rainier. After spending a few days honing in our alpine skills, the gang headed out the Mt. Shuksun with the Sulphide Glacier in our sights. The weather reports had been playing games with us
for the previous five days already, and what was supposed to be a bomber forcast for us, once again flipped and we spent a wet couple of days on the mountain. Luckily, all prevailed and we summitted in full-on weather conditions and the gang showed some true-grit on the climb as well as descent!
After some serious drying of gear as well as ourselves we enjoyed a monster feast in Seattle and bid farewell to half of our crew before heading back out into the field. Jeff, Micah and I went in to Boston Basin and did some more climbing. The highlight was an ascent of the West Ridge of Forbidden, surely one of the Cascade's true gems.
Jeff and Micah finishing up Sahale
I also worked two climbs on Mt. Rainier. One on the Disappointment Cleaver route and another on the Emmons route. Both were good climbs and we got 100% of our climbers up as well, so that is always a bonus.
Heading back to Rainier tomorrow to start another program! Hope everyone out there is out getting it done! Fire it up!
