3-Day Team Summits!

The guide team of Seth, Brent, Willie, and Charlotte are back in high camp
with their team safe and sound. The group reached the summit of mt rainier @
7 am this Morning via the ingraham direct route in very strong winds, on the
last day of our 3 day climb. We'll call y'all when we get back to the city
this evening. Peace out

Rainier climb summits today!

The guide team of Seth, Brent, Willie, and Charlotte are back in high camp with their team safe and sound. The group reached the summit of mt rainier @ 7 am this Morning via the ingraham direct route in very strong winds, on the last day of our 3 day climb. Great job team!!!

Alpine Ascents guides climb Fuhrer Finger on Rainier

Alpine Ascents guides Don & Sarah Carpenter took a few personal days off from guiding and climbed & skied down Rainier via the Fuhrer Finger route. Click on the link below to see photos & video from their climb.

http://www.vimeo.com/12900555

100% success on Mt. Baker

Our Mt. Baker climb summitted yesterday wiht all 9 climbers and 3 guides, great job team!!! Climbers reported good conditions this weekend, with deep snow they would "post hole" in if they stepped off the well packed trail on the glacier.

Muir climb summits in good conditions

Our 3 day Muir climb made the top with great weather on June 24, congrats team & to guides Craig & Willie!

6/24/10 - 8-Day Rainier Course Summits

The eight day mountaineering course on mount rainier finally got some good weather and just in time for our summit day! We topped out around 8 am this morning with perfectly clear skies and everyone is excited to get back to civilization for burgers tomorrow afternoon. Brent Langlinais

Rainier Summits

June 22 - 7 of 8 climbers reach the summit of Rainier

Team at Cathedral Ridge and High Camp today.

Monday June 21, 2010

Team is doing well, nice weather today. This morning Other teams did not make summit because of high winds and poor conditions, we hope conditions will improve & we can make the summit tomorrow!

Photo: High Camp on Muir Route, Mount Rainier

Sunday June 20, 2010

It's been a rainy couple of days thus far but our group is staying warm and learning a bunch of new skills that will come in handy when we make our summit bid in a few days time. For example this photo is of Charlotte Austin teaching our team about avalanche assment before leaving the safety of treeline. Happy fathers day to everyone and stay tuned for our next update when we are once again in cellular reception.

Emmons summits...

Our last Emmons climb made the summit on Monday before the storm came in on Tuesday & Wednesday. Our previous Emmons climb also summitted back on June 8th, that makes two in a row for the Emmons route with our groups. Hopefully with the deep snow accumulation the route will hold together and provide excellent climbing conditions for the remainder of our season!

Rainier summit! June 18, 2010

Our climbing team on the Muir route fo Mt. Rainier reported a successful summit this morning!! They said the route conditions were excellent & weather was awesome! We hope the good weather continues & we will expect many more summits in the days to come. Guide Michael Horst reported "the climbing conditions are as good as I've ever seen on Mt. Rainier!"

Way to go team!!!

June 15 update

The snow conditions have stabilized recently and we are hoping for great weather the next few days! We anticipate with good weather we will see quite a few teams summit this week and next.

Last week our 4 day Emmons climb made the summit on June 8th, way to go team!! It was tough breaking trail in the new snow & with some wind, but they made it!