{"id":756,"date":"2021-05-23T15:48:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T15:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/?p=756"},"modified":"2021-05-23T16:01:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T16:01:41","slug":"wa-rainier-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"WA Rainier #2! (mid May 2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>To be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We summited Mt. Rainier again! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Went with M, B, L, and Ana.<\/li><li>It was a perfect sunny weather with no wind for the whole week!<\/li><li>This was an expedition seminar, so we learned a lot of skills including crevasse rescue, ice climbing in a crevasse, ascender\/rappel use, ice crampon use etc etc.<\/li><li>Hiked up to Camp Muir on Monday and summited on Wed night\/Thu morning. <\/li><li>Saw a helicopter rescue for a person with a broken leg.<\/li><li>Heard and saw an ice fall in Nisqually Valley.<\/li><li>Our rope leader was Jack Delaney and lead guide was Dave Hahn. <\/li><li>Training was mostly from trying to stay fit during the pandemic (biked\/ran 4-5 days\/week). Tilly Jane was a good training for climbing with a heavy pack. We also did a century mile ride to Enumclaw and bike+hike on Tiger Mountain (3 laps ~12 miles, 6100ft). Saw a bunch of other people training for Rainier and Baker with packs.<\/li><li>Decided to buy a mid-layer jacket (Arc&#8217;teryx Atom LT Insulated Hoodie). This is a very useful piece of jacket.<\/li><li>Rented a helmet, crampons, a heavy weight jacket, and a harness with a locking carabiner. I swapped the Bight heavy weight jacket with the Mountain Hardwear jacket.<\/li><li>Duct tape mostly prevented blisters this time; my left arch and heel are the weak spots for these boots.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be updated. We summited Mt. Rainier again! Went with M, B, L, and Ana. It was a perfect sunny weather with no wind for the whole week! This was an expedition seminar, so we learned a lot of skills including crevasse rescue, ice climbing in a crevasse, ascender\/rappel use, ice crampon use etc etc&#8230;.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/?p=756\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}