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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.