Mt Rainier

For those that didn't know, I recently climbed Mt Rainier, along with Vaibhav, Mo, and Jed.

We spent a great long weekend engaging in such activities as basic mountaineering, wrestling with altitude headaches, whooping up on each other in bowling, drinking alaskan beer, and eventually, climbing that big ole mountain.

As usual, everyone else in the group of climbers thought we were functional idiots, but who can blame them, really. We are looking forward to picking up another trip like this eventually, and we're open to suggestion from anyone that's done this sort of thing successfully. We've already had some great possibilities, like Mt. Elbrus, in the Caucasus Range near Moscow, and some great volcanics in South America. I like the pampas. Not like the diapers, but the south american plains that produce such good beef.
Yum!

Here's another great shot of us right around the break of dawn, on our final ascent. We traveled in rope teams for greater safety, because we were traversing a number of snow and ice fields with glaciers here and there.



And, of course, the post-climb euphoric beer toast with our entire climbing group and our fearless guides.


Cheers, all!