Mt Rainier

megatoy66 · Aug 19, 2008

briejer said:
There was a reason Brandon stayed at Muir the night before and I hiked straight through.......I cant trust myself alone with him.......spooning on the rock at the summit was nice though

You're a sick, sick man.............:eeek:

toyota4x4matt · Aug 21, 2008

Robin you rock.. this has been a life long gole of mine to do i hope some day i will be able to summit. if and when i do i will look you up for info and help... when are the best time to go up?

briejer · Aug 22, 2008

toyota4x4matt said:
Robin you rock.. this has been a life long gole of mine to do i hope some day i will be able to summit. if and when i do i will look you up for info and help... when are the best time to go up?

Late May through early July

But it always depends on the weather that year.

It's ok later in the year, but you spend a lot of time on loose shitty rock, but it's still climbable.

Weather looks good this weekend:

.TONIGHT...MOSTLY CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS THIS EVENING. SNOW
LEVEL 10000 FEET.
.FRIDAY...MOSTLY SUNNY. FREEZING LEVEL 12500 FEET.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...PARTLY CLOUDY. FREEZING LEVEL 13500 FEET.
.SATURDAY...MOSTLY SUNNY. FREEZING LEVEL 14000 FEET.

&&
TEMPERATURE AND WIND FORECASTS FOR SELECTED LOCATIONS.

THU FRI FRI SAT
NIGHT NIGHT

SUMMIT (14411 FT) 24 27 30 31
NW 24 W 16 SW 18 SW 26

CAMP MUIR(10188 FT) 31 37 41 43
NW 9 SW 6 W 8 SW 15

PARADISE (5420 FT) 39 59 50 73
W 9 NW 3 SE 6 SE 4

LONGMIRE (2700 FT) 41 69 43 81
CALM CALM CALM CALM

I might have to go again. It just snowed a bunch and should be beautiful on the upper mountian