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Best of The REI Blog, 2010

As The REI Blog winds down its inaugural year, we flashback to a few favorite posts of 2010: Gravity-defying goats. How do they do that? Black George. Meet the giver of root beer floats in Grand Teton National Park. The Oscar should go to…. A great short film from Yosemite Nature Notes, Frazil Ice. Time-lapse videos. Four hours of a lunar eclipse on the winter solstice condensed into 2 minutes; 2 feet of snow falling over 18 hours in New Jersey compressed into 38 seconds. One rad bike. Few ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on January 7, 2011 2:13 PM & Tagged Cycling, Goats, Oprah, REI Blog, black george, matches, mt. rainier and stand up paddleboarding | permalink | Comments



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



In Search of September Snow: The Quest Continues

I've checked September off the list in my quest to ski every month of the year. As we did in August, my girlfriend and I recently hit the road for Mt. Rainier to see what we could find for snow. We were down to 2 weekends remaining in September and we were feeling the pressure to get a ski day in. So, despite a forecast that called for mostly cloudy skies and a 50% chance for rain, we drove to Paradise on the south side of Mt. Rainier National Park. We anticipated slogging through rain and ...

Posted by Joe P. on September 24, 2010 7:08 PM & Tagged Backcountry skiing, Turns-All-Year and mt. rainier | permalink | Comments



Ski Every Month: My Odyssey Continues...

This past weekend, I went skiing. That’s right, skiing. Usually by this time in summer, I’ve fully transitioned to rock climbing as my activity of choice. But Sunday was the first day of August, and my girlfriend and I are on a quest to ski every month this year. So, we packed our bags, picked up a friend and hit the road for Mt. Rainier. Skiing year-round in the Pacific Northwest is not as crazy as it might seem. High peaks, mild spring temperatures and a deep winter snowpack combine to keep ...

Posted by Joe P. on August 5, 2010 6:31 PM & Tagged Backcountry skiing, mt. rainier and skiing | 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