Casey Grom and Gabriel Barral led their Mt. Rainier summit climb teams to the summit this morning. The guides reported light winds and mostly clear skies. Both teams began their descent from the crater rim at 8:00 a.m.
Mike Walter left this morning for the Five-Day Emmons Climb. Mike and his team will spend four days on the mountain as they summit from the Schurman/Emmons Route.
The Expedition Skills Seminar - Paradise began their climb yesterday. The team had a great day yesterday adjusting to the heavy loads of multi-day packs. They arrived at Camp One in great shape and did a general mountaineering school before dinner. We will be moving to Camp Two at 9,000 feet today. All is well on the Paradise Glacier.
Well hello, Mark Tucker checking in. Here in the living zone. Lots of trees, air's so thick you can cut it with a knife. The whole team is already in the rack. 7:30! What's that all about? We had a big day, a very successful day. Everybody can take a big, deep breath. All the team is here and doing well. Fantastic! I can start to relax a little bit. We've got a few hours left on the hill tomorrow but overall, we are looking great. Happy times, great dinner, early breakfast and we'll have a nice program with the team here that has been supporting us. Donate a bunch of gear and cash in their direction. They've done a fantastic job supporting us. Not that we couldn't do this without those 56 men that have helped us a long the way. So we are all looking forward to singing a song with them in the morning. So all is well. We'll keep in touch.
RMI Guide Mark Tucker
RMI Guide Mark Tucker checking in from Kilimanjaro
Jambo! We are back in Arusha getting our last minute shopping in. Today's game viewing in Tarangire was excellent. We started with several close ups of elephant families and then, right before we exited the park, we came upon a pride of lions that was stalking a herd of wildebeests. The lions made several runs at the wildebeests but did not make any kills. It was still really cool to see the big cats in action though.
After we finish shopping we will head back to the Dik Dik to clean up and then it's off to the airport for our flights home. It's been a great trip and today was the icing on the cake.
RMI Guide Seth Waterfall
Our Four Day Summit Climbs led by RMI Guides JJ Justman and Pete Van Deventer called from the “tippy tippy top of Columbia Crest” this morning. Pete reported his team reached the summit of Mt. Rainier at 6:45 and the teams began their descent just before 8:00am. Pete reported the conditions as: light wind, sunny, clear skies, super nice, and relatively warm.
Congratulations to today's teams!
Well hello, Mark Tucker here. On the top of Kilimanjaro one more time! Uhuru Peak looking all the way into Kenya, beautiful day! A big shout out to last week's team. Sorry to inform you, we had a pretty breezeless day. Hardly any wind. You guys had a tough day. You guys hung in there, fantastic. We have a colonel from the armed services with us on this trip and he brought out the Old Glory. A beautiful flag that he has had all over the world during his services. A real special moment for us all. The team is doing great. Everybody's doing well. We're going to go ahead and knock this one off and head on down here. All is well and thanks for checking in on us.
RMI Guide Mark Tucker
RMI Guide Mark Tucker and team on the Kilimanjaro summit!
Our Four Day Summit Climb Teams led by Billy Nugent and Solveig Waterfall reached the summit of Mt. Rainier this morning. It was a beautiful morning on the summit and the teams were able to spend some time enjoying the views. They have started their descent back to Camp Muir and will be back at Ashford Basecamp this afternoon.
Congratulations to today's teams!
Hello Everyone,
This is RMI Guide Seth Waterfall checking in on our way to Tarangire National Park. It's our last full day on safari. Tonight we'll stay at Kikoti Camp, a remote safari camp on the far side of the park. Tomorrow we'll start our journey home.
Tamara,
I am so proud of you!!!! You rocked Mt. Kilimanjaro! When you set out to do something,
you always do it well! Have a safe trip home and can’t wait to see you!
Hey again from Mt. Kilimanjaro checking in with our evening update. From the Karanga Camp, hovering around 13,000'. Well we had another great day, can't help but reported it. We climbed the Barranco Wall, which was a half hour of fun. I can't tell you how many pictures I shot and they are going to be looking good in the old photo album, I guarantee it. It was getting a little bit dusty so we called upon the rain god. We got a little sprinkle then we got into camp and the sky opened up a bit. It didn't really soak things but just enough to kind of keep the dust down. Now I see the summit above me, a billion stars out, a little cloud layer below, temperatures not too bad. We are all in good shape. There was no wet gear created. We were perfect timing on that so we are looking really good for our push up to high camp tomorrow. We are all thrilled. Had a great meeting. Went over a lot of details and as a team are doing very well. Don't you worry, we are having a good time and everything is A OK.
RMI Guide Mark Tucker
RMI Guide Mark Tucker checks in from Karanga Valley.
Hi Steve - Judy has her first two open water dives tomorrow. We’ll take lots of pictures:-). Pulling for you to have the best experience ever tomorrow. Enjoy! Love you! Shari, Connor, Judy, and Micro
Posted by: Shari Fox on 8/11/2012 at 5:05 pm
Hi Steve!
Glad all is well and trust the rest of the trip will be equally if not more so…
We're half way through the second day of safari and we are off to a great start. We had an early breakfast at our safari lodge and then drive to Ngorongoro crater. Before entering the crater we visited a Maasai village. Once inside the crater we got lucky and have been able to see some of the big cats. We're about to have lunch now and then we'll do some more game viewing.
RMI Guide Seth Waterfall
The Four Day Summit Climb August 7 - 10, 2012 led by RMI Guides Brent Okita and Andres Marin radioed from the Columbia Crest at 7:02 a.m. The teams were enjoying clear skies, cool temperatures and a very light breeze on the summit of Mt. Rainier this morning. They began their descent from the crater rim just before 8 am. The teams will return to Camp Muir for a bit before continuing to Paradise this afternoon. We look forward to seeing them at Rainier BaseCamp later today.
Congratulations to today's teams!
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Go, Eric! Love you! Be careful up there. And don’t forget to take a picture!
Posted by: Tamara on 8/15/2012 at 9:49 am
go dan love you
Posted by: sheryl dean on 8/13/2012 at 8:09 pm
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