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[pct-l] Summit camping!!
Yes Rainier Summit camping can be fun!! The steam vents in crater can
provide low cost lodging for those stuck on top in bad weather. ( Very drippy
and wet so have a good bivy) Best way it reach top is to have a early
morning peaceful grind up to camp muir. Lay around camp , eat good and boil
melt snow for next day. Day 2, get up late, ( say 7a.m.) have a nice little
easy walk up to Ingram flats. Pitch tents , melt more snow for a next days
water and kick back and watch climbers return through the ice fall. Go to bed
at 3p.m. and back up at 11 am to start your climb for summit. This will put
you on top before the ' Psycho" Guides taking up their clients push you off"
Their" mountain, or at least they act like they own it. You will be back in
Ingram flats in time for lunch and can be back at paradise in early
afternoon. Three days on the mountain really helps as far as people not
getting altitude sickness. Even old fat people like myself can climb Rainier
with this approach. Of course, you still need some mountain skills that a few
weekends with the right folks can teach you. WARNING--- Rainier Mountain
Guides of today( not 20 years ago) and pushy little espresso kids that talk
down their noses at any climbing party with people not paying 465.00 to them
to climb THEIR peak.The next time I climb Rainier will be with a Nixon Mask
and a can of Bull Sh- - spray I will get out when my favorite ex-snowboarder
type Guides go Strutting through my camp.