Entries filed under 'Disappointment Cleaver'

How to Climb Mt. Rainier, Part 4: On Top, at Last

Enough humble pie. Success, I promise you, tastes much sweeter, and on Monday, July 26, I got the full-meal satisfaction deal when at last, 1 week after enduring an ego-crumpling failure, I stood atop 14,411-foot Mt. Rainier, the tallest glaciated peak in the lower 48. "For a few minutes, we're the highest people in the Pacific Northwest," my ace climbing partner, John Colver, told me on the summit. He meant physically, not psychoactively, of course. And in my case, the sentiment applied ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on November 4, 2010 3:19 PM & Tagged AdventX, Cathedral Gap, Disappointment Cleaver, John Colver, Mark Scheffer, The Mountaineers, mt. rainier and sunset summit | permalink | Comments



How to Climb Mt. Rainier, Part 3: One More Time

If at first you don't succeed, you climb, climb again. Obviously. Welcome to a confessional recap of my unsuccessful first attempt to summit 14,411-foot Mt. Rainier, the fifth-highest peak in the lower 48. Embarrassing? You can't imagine. I'm typing this report through the eyeholes of the paper bag that covers my head. I feel like a football coach whose team was favored by three touchdowns, and now I have to explain how I lost by 14 points. Ugh. Where can I hide? Happily, this story also ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on July 23, 2010 9:06 PM & Tagged AdventX, Camp Muir, Climbing, Disappointment Cleaver, John Culver, ProActive Nutrition, Sally Hara, The Mountaineers and mt. rainier | permalink | Comments