Thanks for posting this mini-documentary of your adventure! My daughter did this route and ski descent last year but has no video to tell the tale, so seeing your video is a real treat!
I have lived my entire life (30+ yrs) with a view of the mountain wondering what it would be like at the top. In both Rainier summits, DC and Emmons, you guys make it look easy. The most glaciated mountain with a 50% successful summit rate is not an easy feat, but watching this makes it look almost effortless. You guys are awesome! Keep it up!
Well done guys, a respectful climb and descent, and only with the advent of skis, technique, lip salve, and sus. Great stuff. Not a puke in sight. Just fantastic..
I saw in my social feed that my last ascent of Rainier was 5 years ago by your same route. This was a pleasant trip down memory lane. Thank you! The weather you had was extraordinary! Congratulations :) I've said it before watching your adventures there is nothing mediocre about this achievement. Rainier car-to-car in a day is an elite athletic accomplishment. My only successful climbs of the peak required two nights and even then were the hardest thing I've ever done. Hat's off!
When I have time I stop everything to see your videos. Funny things were - forgetting the permit in classic mediocre fashion - forgetting gloves after almost losing lips to sunburn 😆😆 Great episode. 👍👍✌️
There are few things more satisfying then the sound of crampons on dry frozen snow. I did the Cleaver and Kautz routes before summitting Denali but never skied either. Well done! How you don’t have a million subs is a UtUbe mystery….
I just recently discovered your alls videos/channel. My daughter and I love your videos. Glad that y’all are still doing them. Keep them coming PLEASE!! Thank you!
Absolutely spectacular footage! I've done that route with an overnight at Sherman. Much respect for doing it in a day, and then adding more punishment for another ski run! The 3D cam footage adds another really nice perspective. Always a joy to watch your content and banter :)
Congrats and appreciate you taking us along for the ride. Very impressive. Funny how plans change. I think it’s great you share the good and the difficult all the same. Keep’em coming.
To anyone who's never hiked Rainier through all that snow idk how the hell they move so fast. Did it for my first time last month and couldn't move my legs for a week 😭
Just summited this with my 11 year old son last week. We had fun watching your vid and reliving the misery from a distance. We were wishing we had skis/the skill to ski down!
This was really fun to watch. I’ve hiked up the trail you guys used in the tree line. It’s nice to see what’s above that on your way to the summit.. I live here and watching you guys do all these climbs is motivating.
Rainier car to car in a day is no joke. You guys always make it look, if not easy, doable. We took our time going up that route 20 years ago sans skis. Just topping out from Shurman and then heading all the way down to White River the last day smoked us. Absolute beasts. Congrats!
Incredible video. Looks like your on top of the world. I wish we had mountains that big in Aus. It made my stomach feel funny at times seeing how far away the river was from the top.
Another great adventure. While typing this comment I realized this is the ONLY channel I have ever left a comment on. I guess that means you officially have the best channel on all of RU-vid. Congrats! Looking forward to the next adventure.
Wooohooo, glad to see this up and that you got redemption for the previous attempt! It was really awesome to meet y’all the day after this after we popped out of the Fuhrer Finger, best day I had all season! To learn that Danny is also a chocolate milk disciple is even better. Looks like you had pretty beautiful conditions at the summit; the folks we talked to the same day said that around ~10am it was ripping wind up there. If you decide to come back next season and want to sample something other than our volcanoes let me know, I have some good suggestions!
What a wonderful adventure! So glad you guys made it. At one point I was watching and thinking, when seeing you with the skins: I'd totally get my crampons on, right about now...
Did you guys seriously just day hike Rainier with an 8AM start time from the car AND add extra vert climbing Steamboat AND make it all the way back to the car for chocolate milk?!?! Totally insane. We attempted to summit in 2013 and took 3 days, weathered out at 13,500 ft....you guys made it look almost effortless. Wow.
You're 25 miles from my house...Orting, Washington. I couldn't see you from here though! Congrats!!! I was up there two days ago (Not Rainier but closeby)...gloriously beautiful.
Was just at Rainer NP last week with my wife and 8 month old and all I could do was dream of climbing it. Biggest hike we did was up Pinnacle Peak (great view) but hopefully my buddies and I will be back to have a go at Rainer's summit sooner than later!
Congrats on bagging Rainier. You got really good weather. BTW, good meeting you on the Orem foothill trails a month or so ago. We talked eBikes. I'm happy with my Levo SL but you may want to look at the Trek Fuel EXe. Or get a Levo for the extra range and power. Coincidence: I passed fellow Mediocre Amateur Blake mountain biking up AF Canyon a few hours ago. I didn't realize it was him until I'd gone by.
Considering the hard crust up near the top which looked no fun at all to ski down, I'm glad you guys got some good snow to carve down watching the end footage!
Always great videos guys! Love when you’re near my neck of the woods in Seattle. If you ever wanted to do an easy video I’d love a breakdown of your equipment and how you guys set up for a trip. What gear you bring in plane? What you pick up at location? How you guys prep and research? Stay safe.
Danny you should talk to your Dr about getting some prochlorperazine maleate for your nausea. Doesn't affect cardio systems (as far as Im aware) and is amazing.
Alot of snow on the Emmons glacier for July usually more crevasses are showing and by late summer the inter glacier is bare ice and the snowline is right around Camp Schurman.
Where in the world were all the climbers? No tents at Schurman? No real boot track? Summit to yourself? This time of year? So strange. Would have expected and army on a blue bird day like that.
