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Posted by: Emma Lyddan, Hannah Smith, Lily Emerson
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mount Rainier
Elevation: 12,800'
The Four Day All Women's Climb August 6 - 9 was unable to summit due to weather. RMI Guides Emma Lyddan, Hannah Smith and Lily Emerson turned the climbers around at 12,800' due to lightning, ice and rain. The teams returned safely back to Camp Muir. They will descend the remaining 4.5 miles to Paradise later this morning and conclude their program at Rainier BaseCamp later this afternoon.
Photos: Hannah Smith
Posted by: Mike King, Jess Wedel, Mike Bennett
Categories: Expedition Dispatches North Cascades
Elevation: 10,781'
RMI Guide Mike King reported clear, calm, and beautiful views from the summit of Mt. Baker this morning. Congrats to the team for their summit of a classic climb of the Cascades!
The team will spend tonight at camp basking in their success before descending back to the trailhead tomorrow.
Posted by: Bryan Mazaika, Steve Gately, Dominic Cifelli, Nick Sinapius, Lacie Smith, Joey Manship
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mount Rainier
Elevation: 14,410'
The Four Day Climb July 14 - 17 led by RMI Guides Bryan Mazaika and Steve Gately reached the summit of Mt. Rainier this morning. As of 7 am they were in the summit crater. The cloud deck is below Camp Muir, so the teams were enjoying clear skies and light winds. After returning to Camp Muir later this morning, the teams will continue another 4.5 miles to Paradise. Once back at Rainier BaseCamp they can relax and celebrate.
Congratulations to today's teams!
Congrats to all the climbers! Huge shout out to Samia for getting out there and crushing it! One minute you’re in NOLA, below sea level, and the next you’re at the top of Rainier! Don’t ever stop!
Posted by: Nora on 7/17/2022 at 10:01 am
Congratulations to scott and mike. Great job making it to the top what a great accomplishment. Look forward to hearing about your adventure.
Posted by: Eileen on 7/17/2022 at 9:42 am
Hello Everyone
We awoke early today and left behind the comforts of our beautiful lodge and have headed to the mountain towards the start of the climb. We hit the road shortly before 8am we drove along the rural country side for two hours to reach the park entrance. Most of the area surrounding Kilimanjaro has been cultivated and primarily used for coffee production and for a variety of other agriculture needs, but there are still some areas that have been untouched and resemble more of a savannah that Tanzania is known for.
The base of Kilimanjaro is forested and resembles a jungle or cloud forest. Traditionally it supports a large part of the banana production for this area. Lucky for us it was cloudy, which made for wonderful hiking conditions.
Once at the gate we had all of our gear weighed and divided into 20kg loads for our porters to carry before hitting the trail. Once everything was in order we started our climb slowly making our way up the winding trail. It was slightly busier than last week, but the team made good time.
The team just finished an amazing hot meal and are looking forward to a good night of sleep at a little bit of exercise.
RMI Guide Casey Grom and the Kili crew.
Good luck to all of you - amazing journey! Cory - you better take a lot of pictures!
Posted by: Dennis Quimby on 9/14/2022 at 6:19 am
Have a lovely evening, mountaineers! Sending you good vibes and look forward to updates. We love you, Scottie! Be well. Victoria and the girls. Cheering and the crew on from Oak Park, Illinois
Posted by: Victoria on 9/14/2022 at 4:15 am
Posted by: Casey Grom
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Kilimanjaro
Gangs all here! There are six of us in total this time. Everyone is doing well and we have enjoyed the RiverTrees Lodge that is nestled in between Arusha and Moshi and not so far from the base of Kilimanjaro.
Today was officially Day 1 for us. So we had our usual round of introductions and then discussed the upcoming program for the days ahead. The team spent the remainder of the day getting our gear packed up, exploring the grounds of our peaceful lodge and getting adjusted to the nearly 12 hours of time change.
Tomorrow we hit the trail and everyone is looking forward to seeing the mountain and stretching the legs after those long flights!
RMI Guide Casey Grom and the Kili crew number 2!
Best of luck to all of you and Cory Klein! What a great experience!
Posted by: Valerie on 9/14/2022 at 9:23 am
Good luck Scott. Thanks for sharing with us.
Posted by: Marilee Schutte on 9/13/2022 at 7:06 pm
Posted by: Win Whittaker, Josh McDowell
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mount Rainier
Elevation: 14,410'
Congratulations Climb For Clean Air (CFCA) Climb Group #3 for the awesome accomplishment. We hare so proud of you all and happy we got the opportunity to train with you.
Posted by: Tideworks Mountaineers on 7/26/2019 at 10:07 am
Congrats to all! Great work, team!
Posted by: Daniel on 7/25/2019 at 5:33 pm
Posted by: Brent Okita, Christina Dale, Ben Luedtke, Erika Birkeland, Josh Geiser, Trevor Katz
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mount Rainier
Elevation: 14,410'
The Four-Day teams reached the summit this morning at 5 am! RMI Guides Brent Okita and Christina Dale reported great route conditions and no winds on the summit. They are currently finishing their descent to Camp Muir for a quick break before packing up camp and starting their descent to Paradise in the summer sunshine.
Congrats team!
Congratulations to everyone! Special thank you to Lead Guide Christina, and to Trevor for all his help with me on the descent. So very proud my son Christian Rainier Culbert summited a 2nd year in a row with RMI. On an even more beautiful day this time when they got to see the sunrise from the summit. I’ll always remember (rue?) the unique challenge of Disappointment Cleaver. Pre-dawn on the Ingraham Flats with Gibraltar Rock looming behind us in that early light, a canopy of stars just beginning to fade above us…a moment I will treasure. Appreciated everything so much; RMI you are a credit to your stewardship of our beloved Mt. Rainier.
Posted by: Geoff Culbert on 8/8/2022 at 7:35 am
Posted by: JT Schmitt, Matias Francis, Jackson Breen
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Alaska Mt. McKinley
Elevation: 14,200'
May 29 12:04am PT
This morning we woke up with the goal of caching gear and food as close to 17 camp as possible. As we passed each of the normal places people cache below 17 camp, such as the top of the fixed lines, below Washburns thumb etc., we just couldn’t find a reason to not keep going.
The weather was perfect, not a whisper of wind, and the views endless. The team was performing extremely well at such high altitude for the first time this trip, not to mention how they floated through the most technical terrain we’ve encountered thus far, so we went all the way to 17,000 ft camp. After digging ourselves a hole to cache in, we retraced our steps back down the west buttress and the fixed lines until we rolled into camp just as the shadow of the mountain engulfed the tent city.
All in all, a successful day completed by a strong team!
Strong team makes big progress at high altitudes. We love it!
Posted by: Amy Houston on 5/30/2022 at 4:59 am
Way to go guys! Thinking of you all and hoping for fair weather the next few days. Just back from a week of sailing in gale force winds on the west coast of Scotland so am very glad you don’t have that!! Love, Charles and Jennifer.
Posted by: Charles Platt on 5/29/2022 at 12:53 pm
Posted by: Dave Hahn, Mike King, Dominic Cifelli
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Vinson Massif
Elevation: 12,500'
Friday, December 31, 2021 - 4:39 pm PT
Rest day at Vinson High Camp was restful. And welcome. Many of the team felt the altitude of our new home after a night of tossing and turning. But breakfast and another fine day, weather-wise got folks feeling a little better as the day went on. We drank lots of water and snacked throughout the day in order to recoup from yesterday and prepare for tomorrow. The forecast is certainly in our favor. We could see clouds forming far down below us and a few wispy formations on nearby peaks but there wasn’t much evidence of wind anywhere in the range. We’ll see how the gang fares with this second High Camp night -nobody had explicit plans for partying hard on this New Year’s Eve- but all things being good we’ll set out for the top tomorrow.
Best Regards
Excited to follow your journey. Happy New Year
Posted by: Lesia A Hatlestad on 1/1/2022 at 4:46 pm
Happy new year from Madhavi, Bodhi, and Adler. We sat under the stars of Joshua Tree and spoke of your climb, wondering how everything is going. So happy for you all!!
Posted by: Madhavi Menon on 1/1/2022 at 1:29 pm
Posted by: Seth Waterfall, Dave Hahn
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Vinson Massif
Sterling,
Looking forward to following your adventure. Be safe and enjoy yourself. Colleman is bringing Barney down on the next plane. Take care, Leff
Posted by: Steve Leff on 12/8/2012 at 12:03 pm
We so enjoy following your adventure and photos every day. best of luck, have a great climb and stay safe. love
Posted by: Dad and Fran on 12/8/2012 at 10:34 am
Great job everyone! Glad to hear the group is safe and sound. I love you Ashley!
Posted by: Brian Battaglia on 8/9/2022 at 10:36 am
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