Friday, October 24, 2008

08 summer climbing

The Summit Crater of Mt. Rainier (TJ,Jordan,Me)
Traversing the knife ridge to the base of Mt. Russell in the background

Looking down camp from about 12500ft on Rainier


Tahoma Peak next to Rainier

Bouldering ice moves on the way to Mt. Russell



These are photos from a couple of our climbs this summer. We had success on Mt. Russell in May and on Mt. Rainier in June. We climbed with Alaska Mountaineering School on Mt. Russell and TJ, Jordan and I went it alone on Rainier. We had fairly good weather for both climbs, although we had to spend a bunch of time in the tent to wait for that good weather. On Russell we had to Bivy out the night of our summit day because we got caught in weather and darkness on the way down, but our summit day on Rainier was perfect. I am working on getting some better photo's together from the new camera, hopefully i'll have some decent ones soon.


cheers,
josh





1 comment:

Ty said...

Great pics! That knife edge looks wicked. You're definitely in better shape than me. I wouldn't be able to breath at 14,000 ft let alone climb. Much respect