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- Alex Barber
- Gabriel Barral
- Jake Beren
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- Katrina Bloemsma
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- Anne Gilbert Chase
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- Elias de Andres Martos
- Cody Doolan
- Paul Edgren
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- Leah Fisher
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- Steve Gately
- Josh Gautreau
- Thomas Greene
- Casey Grom
- Dave Hahn
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- Mike Haugen
- Bryan Hendrick
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- Mike Hinckley
- Joe Horiskey
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- Linden Mallory
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- Andres Marin
- Jeff Martin
- Robert Montague
- Erik Nelson
- Chase Nelson
- Billy Nugent
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- Logan Randolph
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- Kel Rossiter
- Geoff Schellens
- Shaun Sears
- Garrett Stevens
- Jason Thompson
- Mike Tomlinson
- Mark Tucker
- Mike Uchal
- Pete Van Deventer
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- Ed Viesturs
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- Mike Walter
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- Solveig Waterfall
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- Robby Young
Expedition Skills Seminar - Kautz: June 3 - 8 RECAP
Posted by: Seth Waterfall | June 09, 2012
Categories: *Expedition Dispatches *Mount Rainier
Elevation: 9,200'
The Kautz Expedition Skills Seminar has wrapped things up. We had a fun time in what proved to be challenging weather and we’re all happy to be warm and cozy now.
Our trip started in clouds and light precip on day one but due to the fact we had a strong team we were able to set up a great camp for our first night. On the second day we had the best weather of the trip and were able to establish a higher camp at ‘the castle’. Here we spent that afternoon digging in and building walls to protect our tents from a forecasted storm.
The storm hit us overnight and we spent the next day in-the-mix as I like to say. Our walls did the trick though and we were in relative comfort as the storm raged all arounds us.
Once the storm broke we hightailed it downhill through over a foot of new snow!
After being pinned down for our climbing bid we were all a bit disappointed but we all agreed that it was a truly remarkable experience. It was all smiles as we said ‘cheers’ at our wrap up celebration back in Ashford.
RMI Guide Seth Waterfall
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