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Just posted a new climb: Mt Triumph/NE Ridge, 8/13-15. See leader's notes and send me an email if interested.

Great job, dudes, and thanks for the beta.

Miles, Imran and I left the Paradise parking lot around 4am on Sunday to climb Little Tahoma in a fast and light but mostly fast style. It snowed and wind blew hard on Saturday so avalanche danger was on our mind but what we found was that most of the snow got blown away from the mountain leaving pretty hard stable crust on top. Miles and ...

It's possible to drive all the way to the TH. On Sunday continuous snow started about 1 mile into the hike but it's melting fast. I'd say in a week you'll have to hike to where the trail starts climbing (~2miles) before being able to switch to skis. Otherwise good times. The summit pyramid is all snow up to some 45 degrees despite how it ...

Is it all open or there's still some nesting going on?

If people are interested I could do a slide show.

I'll think about it :)

Size: 26.5 Price: $450 Used twice at Snoqualmie, too small for me

Vic, climbing Rainier is a broad term. It'd would be good to indicated what route you have in mind so that people know what technical abilities you expect from your partner.

The Southern Alps is a mountain range which runs along the western side of the South Island of New Zealand and forms a natural divide along the entire length of the island. Majority of the highest peaks and the best alpine climbing is in the Mount Cook National Park. The highest mountain - Mount Cook (natively Aoraki) named in ...