Reina Carrying Skis Skiing Past the Marching Ants Higher and Higher We Ski Almost to Camp Muir Camp Muir At Last! Volcanoes on the Horizon Rocky Pinnacle and Moon The Camp Muir Hut Preparing to Ski Down Skiing Down from Camp Muir Carving Below Rainier Skiing Towards Paradise

Camp Muir provides overnight accomodations for over 100 climbers each night during the peak of the summer climbing season. The building nearly buried in snow to left is a hut which contains bunks for about twenty climbers, available on a first-come basis. The guide service has a couple of huts of its own for paying clients, while the rest of the climbers must set up tents along any available square of flat ground. The building just to my left is a solar-powered outhouse with composting toilets, needed to maintain sanitation in this sterile environment far above treeline.