For any of those watching these videos to get prepped for a future ascent, summit early please. Don't make the mistake we did by summitting late and dealing with the slip and slide on the way down with those wide crevasses. Make sure to bring water purification tables. (we ran out of those on the summit and had to boil water delaying our descent).
Hello. Congrats on the summit!! I have some questions for you. What kind of training did you do? Did you find it to be super difficult physically even with the training? And did the altitude get to you at all? I'm 34 and in relative okay shape (I can jog 6 miles with relatively no issues in about 1 hour 10min, not sure if that helps).. I hope to do this next year or so, but am mostly worried about physical strength and altitude sickness. Thank you
Hi - just now saw this, sorry I'm just now writing back. I bought the book "Fit To Climb - A 16-Week Mount Rainier Fitness Training Program" and followed their plan to the letter. I didnt have access to altitude - the highest thing nearby was Stone Mountain here in Georgia so my long days were going up and down that with a progressively heavier pack. The altitude was my biggest worry and everybody is different, but I didnt experience any altitude sickness thankfully. Biggest thing is leg and core strength, and cardio. Working up to 8 hours with a 50 pound pack is key. Good luck on your climb!
Hey best of luck! When I went the Cleaver was completely melted out and was the most challenging part of the climb (both up and down). Scrambling with crampons on bare rock is no fun. My suggestion - on the summit attempt your pack will be LIGHT. If you can, bring an extra liter of water/drink. Worth the weight to not get dehydrated on the descent.
Granted, our route was about 3 hours longer because we had to traverse horizontally due to cravasses at 13K, so the two liters I carried was not enough. At this point in the season you may get away with two liters.
I wondered how it would be walking over rocks and climbing ladders with crampons on. A part of the route collapsed the other day so nobody has summited yesterday or today.
@@turnerj456they usually are pretty fast at coming up with alternatives to routes, fingers crossed for your trip! RMI is good about the training day and you’ll definitely be using crampons, a bit on rock to get the feel.
Morning! I'm curious why you didn't go to Columbia Crest (Summit Proper) and stayed in the crater instead? I'm looking to summit next year and I'm trying to learn all of the ins and outs of the DC route. Thanks man! Great climb, awesome video. Weather looked choice!
I made that call not to and have no regrets. I lined up with others from our team to go up CC, but started stumbling and got dizzy so I decided it would be better to stay at the crater to hydrate and rest for the descent.
