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pics from our cliff/redfield from are up for your viewing pleasure, enjoy!

cliff and redfield gallery

the rainier crew is off to the daks this weekend for a little peak baggin adventure. we're driving up this afternoon so we can sleep at the trailhead and get an early start tomorrow morning. we're coming in from uppper works and heading to uphill brook lean-to for our base camp. the plan is to grab cliff, redfield, gray, skylight, and haystack over friday and saturday. i can't wait to hang out with the black flies and bears.

later,

darin 

holla!

received the confirmation letter and climbing passes today from mount rainier national park for the dates of 25 june thru 29 june for the camp muir alpine camp! can you say sweeeet!

later

darin 

i've faxed our reservation request for mount rainier national park this morning. i put in for four days at camp muir so keep your fingers crossed we can get in! i should recieved our confirmation or rejection letter within the next week or two.

later

darin 

The recommended gear list for our mt. rainier and mt. hood trip, don't get left out in the cold! this is a list gear that "YOU" should probably have for yourself!

personal gear:

• backpack: 5000 cu,in or larger
• sleeping bag: 0-20 degrees
• sleeping pad
• trekking poles
• cup/bowl/spoons
• head torch w/ extra batteries
  
• sunscreen and lip-balm with SPF rating
  
• 2 nalgene bottles
• glacier goggles
• knife or multi-tool
• lighter
• map/compass
• whistle or signaling mirror

clothing (which will get really smelly):

the mt. rainier/mt. hood trip is finally starting to feel real! i purchased our airfare the other day so all we really have to get is a car and a hotel for a few nights but i hope we have these last few traveling logistics tied up by the end of next week.

i really need to ramp up my training now, i feel that i've kind of been slacking on the cardio front! i've only been getting out like once a week for a 3 mile run and have done any backpacking since the gothics trip, other then lugging around a pack full of gear when jeff and i go trad climbing. this weekend i'm heading down to alleganay for a little expo with the boys but i plan on getting in a nice long trail run and/or a power hike. it'll be fun to see how jeff keeps up :)

what a pain!

darin

a few of us took advantage of this weekends great weather and got in alot of rock time, it was sooo nice to get onto real rock for a change! after the rain friday and the expected rain into saturday morning jeff and i kind of concluded that the weather wasn't going to cooperate for trad climbing at buffalo crag on saturday. around 10am saturday jeff calls cuz it's starting to clear up a bit and thinks we should head up. i can see toronto from my house and it looks grey but what the hell, it's not like i have anything else to do.

we arrive at rattlesnake after an uneventful drive around noon. it's a little grey outside but the sun keeps peeking out to say hey, not to mention it's a little brisk! we gear up and hit a nice little warm up to the left of #10, to the right of the memorial plague. jeff stickes the route while i follow an clean, all and all it's a good warm up. we cruz down the 4th class, pack up and head down to buffalo crag.

holla,

john sent me his pics from gothics so now there's a nice little collection in the gallery.

later
darin

so this past weekends gothics trip turned into quite the little epic, a dropped ice tool, almost being blown off gothics eastern summit, a bushwack off the mountain at night!

mike and i picked up jeff at the early hour of 630am friday morning and started heading east on the I-90. we meet up with john at a stewards shop in poland, ny which is our usual meeting locale. from here split into 2's for the remainder of the drive but kept in touch with some radios that john brought. after a quick stop for lunch and a to go order of that evening dinner we arrived at the gardner parking lot around 1pm. the hike from the garden to the lean-to was uneventful other then the few people that we passed, though it snowed most of the way back.