Mount Rainier Tahoma Glacier
I missed the party last year on this line, so I was super thankful to make it out this year.
3rd time slogging up this thing in 8 days lol
I will say this day felt weird with the extra late start time, with us leaving the parking lot in daylight
Man that thing
Wonder when that thing is gonna fall off
It was cool watching this thing evolve from a trivial single wooden plank to a full fledged ladder





Starting the descent down the Tahoma Glacier and seeing these huge seracs to our left
The ampitheater

Down the headwall
And our exit slope was blue lol
Thankfully we managed to cross a pretty thin snowbridge and then take a look at where our original exit slope would spit you out
Biiig cracks on the Tahoma Glacier




Seracs the size of a small house
Looking back up the headwall
And out we go
Primitive trail down to Tahoma Creek
Bushwacking
Yep very slow going on boulder hoppy terrain, shoulda taken the trail whoops
Notes
- This was probably ~20 miles and ~9400 feet of vertical gain right around 13 hours.
- I wrote a rare Turns All Year trip report because I thought it might help somebody :)