After climbing over 5000 feet of vert
Snowboarding the Interglacier in Mount Rainier National Park

If there is any area that I would like to think of as my home mountain it would be Mount Rainier and its lower slopes. Over the years I’ve been fortunate to tour with my friend who goes by the nickname Boot and is one of my favorite touring partners. Our zone is the White River of the NE side of the park.

White River Ranger Station

I’ve toured in this area for almost a decade and I have never seen another person out here during the winter. It is something special.

Emmons Moraine

Over the next 7 hours Boot and I skinned up almost 6,000 vertical feet of chin deep pow on the Emmons Glacier which I prefer in the winter compared to the Glacier Basin summer trail.

Boot on the trail

It’s far more direct and for the most part the crevasses are filled in.

Emmons Glacier

Enjoy the skin track porn.

Skin Track
Skin track
Interglacier
Interglacier
Interglacier

If you’ve never made it to Steamboat Prow it is such an amazing place at 10,000 feet and half way up Rainier.

Steamboat Prow

But the best part is that it allows access to the Interglacier which is almost a 5,000 foot run of sheltered NE slopes.

Sunrise

And sometimes it delivers.

Interglacier

I ran my GoPro the whole time and when I stopped it at the bottom it was running for two minutes. I laughed to myself realizing I did 8 hours of hard work for 2 minutes of ecstasy. Was it worth it? YES!!

Interglacier