Trip
Basic Alpine Climb - Pinnacle, Plummer, Denman, Lane & The Castle
Basic alpine climb up Castle and Pinnacle.
Contacts
James Gawel
Primary Leader
- Sun, Jun 12, 2016
- Tacoma Basic Alpine Climbing
- Scrambling, Climbing
- Basic Alpine
- Adults
- Strenuous 3, Technical 4, Basic Alpine Climb
- Moderate
- Mileage: 7.0 mi
- Elevation Gain: 2,400 ft
- 1 (6 capacity)
- FULL (2 capacity)
- Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 8:07 AM
- Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 5:00 PM
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
- iCal Google
Not a rock climb, but still may use handline and rappel so bring climbing gear and snow travel equip.
Longmire parking lot, 8AM
Route/Place
Pinnacle, Plummer, Denman, Lane & The Castle
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USGS Mt Rainier East
USGS Mt Rainier West
Trails Illustrated Mount Rainier National Park
Green Trails Mount Rainier Wonderland No. 269SX - See full route/place details.
Roster
Required Equipment
Required Equipment
- The Ten Essentials
- Mountain boots that can accept crampons (not hiking boots)
- Crampons
- Ice axe
- autoblock
- Large pear-shaped carabiner
- Belay device
- Climbing harness
- Helmet
- Fleece or puffy jacket
- Rain jacket and full-zip rain pants
- Warm gloves or mittens
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