Many parties routinely fail to climb this summit
An obscure and difficult to access peak located on the south side of the Hanes Valley and due east of Crown Mountain. Although forested, the summit is open enough to offer views. Documented as climbed by the BCMC back in the 1920s.
从没想过有一天挂在岩壁上的人会是我，虽然训练时才来回爬了三次，但已经象打了鸡血一样的兴奋，正如博士所言：最好玩的时候开始了！
No other peak has the combination of high elevation, massive bulk, and extensive glaciation--and Mt. Rainier stands alone in splendid isolation, with only 40 miles separating sea level at Puget Sound from its glacier-clad summit. No other peak nearby even remotely challenges its supremacy.
In most of the United States, a hike of 3000 vertical feet to the summit of a peak is considered about average; 4000 to 5000 vertical feet is considered a very long and extremely tiring trip, and anything above 6000 vertical feet is rare and devastatingly difficult. However, Mt. Rainier, by its easiest route, requires ascending 9000 vertical feet (that's 2740m for you non-Americans).
Climbing Notes:
As of 2007, the National Park Service allows three professional guide services to conduct clients to the summit of the peak and to offer mountaineering programs on its slopes. A three-day trip generally costs about $800 to $1100 and includes a day of training, a day to hike halfway up the peak, and a long third day when you summit and return to base.
Any well-coordinated and experienced hiker in excellent physical shape can make the climb with the guide services. The biggest variable is the weather--if the date of your scheduled climb is stormy, you might not even make it past the halfway camps of Camp Muir or Camp Schurman (but they still take all your money). Also, be aware that many guided climbs end at the crater rim, a short trip from the true summit at Columbia Crest.
It is certainly possible for very fit and experienced mountaineers to climb the mountain without a guide. You do have to register with the National Park rangers and pay a small fee, but beyond the sheer scale of the peak the easier routes don't present much of a challenge to those used to crossing glaciers. The Camp Muir-Disappointment Cleaver route is usually a wide, trenched-out path made by hundreds of climbers every day, including the 30-strong RMI guided group.
Other routes offer more solitude and/or challenge. The Interglacier-Emmons Glacier route is the second most-used, and avoids the crumbly rock of the Disappointment Cleaver for an endless glacier trudge. The Liberty Ridge on the northwest is perhaps the most famous of the more difficult routes, which vary all the way to the nearly-impossible Willis Wall, a 4000-foot north face of crumbling rock and ice.
中国农历大年初一，按计划开始了Alpine101第三次训练。回首这周，博士发的作业频率是越来越高，给的作业时间也是越来越短，上博士的课真要步步紧跟，感觉一不跟上就要掉链子，如何合理安排好时间在某种程度上也是对我们的一种考验。
lulululu
敬佩博士带教北美户外的山友们的无偿付出和严谨教学，祝我们的潘博士鸡年健康吉详如意！We love you so much! :gd:
Apparently, the clean rock right of the bushline (right hand side of peak in photo) has been climbed at a reported class 4-5. Someone told me this in about 1993, I cannot remember the name of my source, so take that info with a grain of salt.
LilyQ
不得不承认，我们是幸运的！这次的课程，博士倾注了大量的心血和时间，从作业的设计到训练的安排，环环紧扣，科学合理。让我们在系统掌握理论知识的基础上并通过实践得以验证和巩固。博士和Vera总是倾其所能的把他们在登山中积累的知识、经验和可能会遇到的问题不遗留力得传授给我们。和$800多块的商业课程比起，我们更是幸运的！博士的课程知识点全面，内容更有深度。毕竟商业课程仅靠短短几天的训练要把登山这门大学科一网打尽还是很有难度的，我们连续5周25次作业(大量的理论学习和案例分析，每次作业我自己至少要化2-4小时)，加上4次全天训练都很难做到面面俱到，但博士也是尽可能把重点和要点让我们做到了然于胸。对于博士和Vera这种无偿付出，我和叮叮除了感动还是感动，感动之余也庆幸自己抓住了这次难得的机会！
vera
..我喜欢Rappel，有几个原因。第一，看起来很酷！..
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站在Lily身后十米远处的斜坡上踩在陷脚松软的雪里，看着博士站在对面约4米高的Seymour的Dikney Peak的小雪丘顶上用冰镐和绳子保护Lily攀爬几乎垂直的小雪坡。
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当在YouTube上观看一部关于K2的登山纪录片，自然而然地在研究登山者们手里拿的上升器是什么工作原理的时候，我知道历时一个多月紧张有趣的Alpine101课程之后，潘博士和Vera已经带我跨入了登山的门槛。
LilyQ
雪崩，这两个字对以前的我来说一直觉得是跟我无关的事，即便冬天参加爬雪山活动，也从来不会去考虑雪崩风险，因为脑海里压根没有这个意识。自从参加了Alpine101培训，在博士苦口婆心地教化及他身边发生的各种真实事故的罗列下，现在越来越意识到，雪崩，离我们不远，为了自身的安全，请谨慎对待雪崩风险。
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