Back home now after 4 awesome nights in the rainier area. Because we didn't check the models for a couple days, we went back up the mountain Saturday evening expecting it to dump snow on us overnight, which never happened to our complete surprise, it was mostly dry the entire night, until the morning we started getting heavy snow which continued til some point last night, and then it turned to off and on heavy snow, I'm not sure when the change of forecast happened on the models for Saturday night, it surprised us to say the least. We didn't summit rainier yesterday which was we didn't expect to do anyways, it was just a day for doing some more Glacier training in whiteout conditions.
This morning we experienced some of the most extreme weather we've ever seen, 10k elevation at camp Muir from 3-5 AM we were experiencing 100mph gusts with temps in the low teens, once we started decending at 8am the gusts were still in the mid 90sMPH and 110sMPH on exposed ridgelines, which was impossible to ski in without repeatedly getting knocked over by the wind, but it was beautiful once we got down to Paradise.
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