June 21, 2012, Mt. Rainier, Muir

Partner had to bail at the last minute for our trip up the Fryingpan (I wish I'd read the Partners Wanted section last night) so I decided to take a trip up the "old standby." 

Able to skin within 100' of the parking lot.  There are 3 bare spots at Panorama Point that require carrying.  The light breeze and filtered sunshine made for a pleasant ascent.

I descended around 12:30.  The upper part of the snowfield skied great.  The snow got really grabby between 8.5k and 7k, a little less sticky below that.

I managed get some turns down the winter route of Pan Point, but the snow won't be continuous there for much longer.