I did it, though plans changed and all that I still made it.

Aaron unfortunately could not make it, but Dad and I did a pretty rockin job. We started hiking about 6:30pm Friday and made it up to camp Muir, 10k feet, at 12:30am. The climbers were just starting to wake up and leave as we were setting up our tent to go to bed. The next day we hiked up to just above 11k feet and spent the rest of the day napping and eating

Got up at midnight, made breakfast, roped up and headed out by 1am sunday morning. Made the crater rim at 7, took a shit in the crater 7:15, made the true summit 7:30. Drank half a Rainier tallboy 8:15 and started the long trek back down to camp. We made it all the way back to the car by about 5, though we took quite a few breaks on the way, I even dozed off for a bit in the tent while melting snow to refill our water bottles.

The weather was awesome and hot. At night the stars were phenomenal and we actally saw plety of shooting stars from the meteore shower. All in all a phenomenal trip. I'm proud as hell of my dad for making it to the top with me.

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From Mt. Rainier (picasaweb.google.com)