Fall in the Cascades

It is certainly fall here in the northwest. The weather has changed and although we seem to be getting days of good weather here and there. It is not summer anymore. As I spent the last two days couped up inside watching the deluge of rain come down I can attest to the current wet state of Washington weather.

I attempted to climb Mt. Rainier last week with a group, and we got turned around at about 13,000 feet due to weather. I will say that the entire mountain is as bare as I have seen it in years. We are all wearing crampons up the Muir snowfield and the route, although it still goes, is no cakewalk. I am heading back to big snowy to begin my last program of the season there. It would be nice to get up one last time!