igloos

The "Winter Camping Brochure" does state:

In selecting your campsite, choose a location that is a minimum of 300 feet from plowed roads and parking areas (too avoid being burried by snowplows), marked routes, trails and buildings and at least 100 feet from water.

So in those cases there was a two fold problem -- 1) Placing a snow shelter along an established route 2) Leaving said snow shelter.

The volunteer ski patrollers at Mt Rainier as part of their duties will collapse abandoned snow shelters they encounter while patrolling the marked routes -- but there are only a handful of patrollers, so if someone builds an igloo in a dumb place it may be a while before it is collapsed.

If you build a snow shelter at Mt Rainier with the intention of leaving it in place for future use, you'll want to build it well away from the stuff mentioned above and it would be wise to place in a manner that other folks are unlikey to find it, much less ski over it unintentionally.

Good advice on locations. I am thinking about locations central to a lot of different options that are just at the end of the typical day tour. Sounds like there is some interest in a few different areas. Anyone interested in trying it out at Snoq pass? Anyone have ideas of locations there or anywhere else that wouldn't create a hazard or offend the volunteer patrollers?

Anyone have ideas of locations there or anywhere else that wouldn't create a hazard or offend the volunteer patrollers?

Nordic Pass?

We were told to knock ours down. Mainly because it gets hidden under 2 feet of snow some poor sap starts skinning over it and falls in and breaks a leg. It can also have a bit of a treewell effect with enough fresh on top.

How to catch a Heffalump. Put honey in it.

If you build it, they (we poachers) will come.....

If you build it, they (we poachers) will come.....

We would hope so.

Wondering if Scott is taking reservations for the Long's Pass igloo. It's ways in though so I'd need a ride. Wilderness boundary patrol, WMC?