Just a reminder to everyone that this week is National Park Week, and to celebrate the Park Service is opening up all of its 397 parks for free! That's right, you can come to Mount Rainier or any other National Park from April 21-29 and forgo the entrance fee. Rangers will still be staffing the entrance booths to answer your questions and provide all the services they normally do, but they won't be taking your money.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Admission Free Parks
Thursday, April 19, 2012
New Season, New Looks
As we quickly approach the time of the year where weather gets nicer and climbing starts to become a priority over more winter-centric sports such as skiing or curling, we here at Mount Rainier are looking forward to a great season on "the mountain".
If you are a blog frequenter, you will notice some slight changes to this site over the next week or so. That's because we are updating this blog, which will allow us to keep you better informed on all of the climbing, skiing, and Rainier related events, as well as making viewing of this page much easier on mobile devices. You may notice some links don't work properly and some pages you have come to enjoy will be inaccessible from time to time. Don't worry...We will have everything working again soon and hopefully better than before!
Hope everyone is getting their stoke on! The mountain is fat with snow and more is falling outside as I type this. See you on the mountain...
Sunday, April 15, 2012
What happened to the Camp Muir Webcam?
April 14, 2012
The webcam hasn't worked since a fateful day in late November.
I have it in my office in Longmire. I went up about two months ago with all the tools to fix it, but I was unable to make field repairs, so I dismantled it and brought it down the hill.
I have been able to connect to the on-board server, but the image doesn't come up in the admin tool. I will delegate this repair to one of the climbing rangers over the next few weeks. If we can't repair or make an easy adjustment, then we'll have to order a new one.
How did it get broken? Well, reports have come in from various places, but it appears that the webcam has been consistently been taking a good beating. Not by weather, but by people, well-meaning people, to be more exact. The webcam during storms gets rimed up and it obscures the view. It may stay like this for days. So when avid viewers are actually at Camp Muir and in a position to "fix" the rime on the camera, they either hit or scrape the rime off the camera.
The marks on the camera's protective dome seem to corroborate the circumstantial evidence and the hear-say. It definitely looks like dome has taken some pretty heavy blows with a sharp object.
It will still be a month or more until I can get it working again.
Sorry for the delay.
The webcam hasn't worked since a fateful day in late November.
I have been able to connect to the on-board server, but the image doesn't come up in the admin tool. I will delegate this repair to one of the climbing rangers over the next few weeks. If we can't repair or make an easy adjustment, then we'll have to order a new one.
How did it get broken? Well, reports have come in from various places, but it appears that the webcam has been consistently been taking a good beating. Not by weather, but by people, well-meaning people, to be more exact. The webcam during storms gets rimed up and it obscures the view. It may stay like this for days. So when avid viewers are actually at Camp Muir and in a position to "fix" the rime on the camera, they either hit or scrape the rime off the camera.
The marks on the camera's protective dome seem to corroborate the circumstantial evidence and the hear-say. It definitely looks like dome has taken some pretty heavy blows with a sharp object.
It will still be a month or more until I can get it working again.
Sorry for the delay.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Friday, March 9, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Avy Activity from Last Week
Last week was quite the occasion for avalanches. The pictures below are of some crowns that are still visible from activities on February 21 and 22. Good visibility yesterday allowed full views of the crowns. There was widespread avalanche activity elsewhere on the mountain as well as in the Tatoosh but many of the crowns have been altered by erosion.
Just below Panorama Point. The alternate/winter route experienced some activity.
Taken from the saddle of the Edith Creek Drainage below Panorama Point. Most of the upper Edith Basin is now covered by avalanche debris.
Another view from the saddle looking down at Mazama Ridge. Debris from slides off Mazama Ridge also swept the Paradise Valley road in several places.
I hope your Monday was as good as mine. The forecasted 6-9" of new snow for tonight has started.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Snowpack Profile Update
Neither a compression test or extended column test yielded any failures. No evidence of recent avalanche activity in the immediate area allows me to think that the slope did not fail earlier in the week, unlike many other slopes in the area.
All layers were well defined and fairly settled.
Snow Worm
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