giggy
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Taking a stab at this to see if there is interest.
I want to do hood, shasta, rainer, (not all but one of them) this year. Pretty bad. The obvoius choice is to get a guide for these mountains, but this can get expensive - Rainer is like 800, the others are around 500. I am sure they are worth every penny, but its tough to justify 1500 bucks on a vacation when your wife has no part of it. At least in my case..
Again, I am just probing this idea, but if there was interest in someone who has done Rainer, has some glaicer travel, etc, and would be willing to go and be a kind of a trip leader.
If there were a few people interested, it would be fun, and expenses could be shared, etc... I would only consider this if someone has been on the mountain or has similar experiecne. I have most of the skills needed except glacier skills.
People going would have serious, dedicated to training before hand, basic ice/snow climbing experiecne, have the gear, and beer drinkers (just kidding) etc...
I would think we would just do the normal route (disapointment clever).
Of course many things would have to come into play if this was to work - but I thought it was worth asking.
Please only reply if interested, as I know it is a tough mountain, altitude, endurance, etc....I have done loads of research, talked with people who have done it, etc... I appreciate the advice, but know of the dangers, risk associated with this mountain. (altitude, falling rock, falling ice, crevasses, etc..)
I want to do hood, shasta, rainer, (not all but one of them) this year. Pretty bad. The obvoius choice is to get a guide for these mountains, but this can get expensive - Rainer is like 800, the others are around 500. I am sure they are worth every penny, but its tough to justify 1500 bucks on a vacation when your wife has no part of it. At least in my case..
Again, I am just probing this idea, but if there was interest in someone who has done Rainer, has some glaicer travel, etc, and would be willing to go and be a kind of a trip leader.
If there were a few people interested, it would be fun, and expenses could be shared, etc... I would only consider this if someone has been on the mountain or has similar experiecne. I have most of the skills needed except glacier skills.
People going would have serious, dedicated to training before hand, basic ice/snow climbing experiecne, have the gear, and beer drinkers (just kidding) etc...
I would think we would just do the normal route (disapointment clever).
Of course many things would have to come into play if this was to work - but I thought it was worth asking.
Please only reply if interested, as I know it is a tough mountain, altitude, endurance, etc....I have done loads of research, talked with people who have done it, etc... I appreciate the advice, but know of the dangers, risk associated with this mountain. (altitude, falling rock, falling ice, crevasses, etc..)
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