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UpDawg

UpDawg

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anyone here big into mountaineering or alpine climbing? i'm going to rainier on august 1st, anybody done any major routes in the cascades or any other famous alpine routes?

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yeah it does, i've dropped at least 2 grand for gear so far for moutaineering, and that doesnt include all my actual rock climbing gear, which costs just as much if not more- but it's so worth it, it's one of the best things ever

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climbing is awesome. im doin this 3 eek expedition in a few dayts, then when i get back, im also doing rainier, that will be like on the 10th of augus or something. i did mt adams last year in the cascades with some friends. it wasnt hard but it was fun and awesome. have fun on rainier, it should be cool

-Grant

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thats awesome, which route are you doing on rainier? we're doing the Tahoma Glacier, it's gonna be pretty intense...which route did you do up mt. adams?

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ill begong up the kautz glacier and stay at camp hazard, and probably descend the same way. on adams we took the north lyman galcier route, its like a grade 2, but it as mellow

-Grant

bye el niño
 
haha its called camp hazard for a reason, good luck with that! hopefully its not really warm when you get to camp...

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yeah dude i've heard horror stories of that upper third of rainier, the whole cap just ices over and if you fall you're pretty much fucked royally

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good call, are you gonna do most of the upper route with running belays or in seperate pitches?

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that upper section we will do runing belay. we have enough gear not too huge a group, so that is our plan

-Grant

bye el niño
 
i want to get into like hiking around random parts of forrest then camping out, is that mountaneering? and at my summer camp we had a climbing wall, does that count?

 
yeah, sounds like you're talking more about backpacking, mountaineering involves getting above treeline most of the time and involves roping up for glacier travel, possible mixed climbing (climbing a pitch with both rock and ice on it), and having the knowledge to take care of a situation should it arise (such as crevasse rescue, etc.) There's alot of shit to know for sure, but once you get into it it's pretty easy to pick up on it, you just have to get experience. and mountaineering doesnt always have to include snow travel. i did the Upper Exum Ridge on the Grand Teton last summer, and that is a good example of alpine mountaineering, where you are climbing technical rock at altitude, using ropes, running belays, etc. And yeah, Rainier is 14,411- it'll be the biggest mountain for me, and it is pretty huge- the route we're doing is 11,500 feet of vertical for the entire route, pretty big- it'll kick my ass towards the top for sure.

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the highest ive done is mt adams, which is a similar volcano to ranier, and its 12256 feet, so rainier will be the tallest for me, its a big ass elevation gain for the lower 48, pretty much the biggest you can get.

-Grant

bye el niño
 
yeah the highest i've been is on the Grand (we made it to 13000 and then got fucked hardcore and had to retreat) and Cloud Peak in the Bighorns, el 13167

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