May 4 Camp Muir en mass
5/15/08
WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
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Delightful trip up to Muir by unofficial party of Mountaineers and friends. A brisk wind on the way up kept us from using deoderant. This was a joint effort by mountaineers and friends from both Seattle and Tacoma .Ran into more friends along the way Rich B ,Kenji ,Wayne Miller, Katrina and Micah and a few more. We were a party of 10 with spills, chills and a brew at the end. Ended up skiing down Mclure rock way and exiting at Golden gate into Edith basin . Maybe I saw one lonely pinwheel all day! Corn can't be to far away. Nisqually chute was skied ,Some partys skied down to the bridge .
thanks to Deb ,Anita ,Mindy ,Ed ,Rob ,Bruno ,Eric ,Dave and Jeff for another great day in Paradise!
thanks to Deb ,Anita ,Mindy ,Ed ,Rob ,Bruno ,Eric ,Dave and Jeff for another great day in Paradise!
and I didn't even have to take off my snowboard. ;)
Kyle ,we were wondering about that cause we had a boarder with us.
Was that you on a split at the lower bridge parking lot?
Was that you on a split at the lower bridge parking lot?
I think everyone who had ever bought a polypro shirt was up there this weekend. Did a quick trip down the N' Chute to the bridge, first time ever, much fun in so-so snow. Waiting for Corn season, should be near.
Heard from someone at the Bridge that a skier had fallen 100 ft down a crevasse near the Turtle. Hope he is ok. Sounded like a bunch of scrapes and some stinky pants.
Heard from someone at the Bridge that a skier had fallen 100 ft down a crevasse near the Turtle. Hope he is ok. Sounded like a bunch of scrapes and some stinky pants.
They don't tend to bring out a heli for stinky pants - I hope everyone's ok!
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122131
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122131
grapevine is that it was a climbing ranger. 100 feet into a crack. no rope. broken back
Where specifically was this? We went down from Muir snowfield to Nisqually glacier 3 small chutes left of the huge ice flow. This was NOT intentional (had been aiming for the Nisqually chutes) and was caused by laziness on my behalf due to good visability when I should have taken a bearing. There were a lot of crevasses and the huge ice flow fairly closeby down where we were although we did traverse higher until able to glide straight out to the mountaineers bootpack (for crevass rescue clinics I think). Not something I'd want to repeat without a rope. Just wondering if the skier fell near the route we took. I'll try post a picture to see if anyone recognises it.
Im rather sure it was me in the parking lot. As for the fall it was not a climbing ranger the trip was intended to ski the Wilson headwall and the guy stayed on the snowbridge for too long. As for the person guiding the trip whom I've loosely known for the past few years it wasnt his fault at all people just need to be fast when crossing snowbridges.
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grapevine is that it was a climbing ranger. 100 feet into a crack. no rope. broken back
It was not a climbing ranger.
FYI, the patient will recover. Don't linger on bridges!
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