Foursquare Mountaineering took a trip up to Mt. Rainier to have some fun and hone our mountaineering skills. We set out to find the biggest, baddest crevasse on the lower Nisqually Glacier. We found it! It had deep vertical walls made of hard ice. It was topped off with a layer of last winter's soft snow. We spent the day rappelling, ice climbing, prusiking and setting up a z-pulley rescue system.
The first thing we did was set up a few bombproof anchors and safety lines. Dan, Dennis, Jim and Caroline.
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Dennis, Jim and Doug watching Dave finish his climb up from the bottom.
Jim rappelling into the abyss.
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Dan moving up the rope with ascenders.
We even managed to find a snow bridge on the way out.
It was good to spend the day up on the mountain with friends. Now some of those harder routes on Rainier seem just a little bit easier and if one of us falls into a hidden crevasse, we will all know what to do.
