multi pitch potential in Mt Rainier NP

Found this wall in the northeast corner of the park. Roughly 500ft. Rock quality looks great from afar but I haven been up close. Curious if it has any climbing history 

500ft isn't big wall, it's like 3 pitches.

I know nothing about that wall specifically but the reason it likely hasn't been developed recently is that there are lots of rules about where you can bolt based on where the rock actually is, national parks tend to not like bolting in recent years. We kinda discussed this in this thread: mountainproject.com/forum/t…  and here is an article about ithttp://www.alpinist.com/doc/web13x/wfeature-directors-order-41  

Double J wrote: 500ft isn't big wall, it's like 3 pitches.

Seems subjective to me. Is there a technical definition of big wall?

lucas funkhouser wrote:

Seems subjective to me. Is there a technical definition of big wall?

I think you have to use pitons and aiders and sleep on a portaledge. Then it's a big wall. 

lucas funkhouser wrote:

Seems subjective to me. Is there a technical definition of big wall?

"Too big to climb in a day"

Looks like nice rock. Get gutsy and climb it trad or aid with no bolts.

Question: How are you going to get across the river to it?

Keith Wood wrote: Looks like nice rock. Get gutsy and climb it trad or aid with no bolts.

Gutsy for sure. Other than the obvious roof, the walls look slabby and blank. I’m going to get up and personal with it this afternoon so I will let yall know.

I’ve looked at that wall myself and wondered why the closest traveled area around rainier is tieton. I’m interested to hear what you find

I tried to get across the river on Wednesday but got turned around by A slippery log halfway out of the water. 

lucas funkhouser wrote: I tried to get across the river on Wednesday but got turned around by A slippery log halfway out of the water. 

Maybe plan B could be a raft. Because the three mile hike from the airstrip looks pretty rough.

Keith Wood wrote:

Maybe plan B could be a raft. Because the three mile hike from the airstrip looks pretty rough.

Yeah. Honestly crossing the log with some sort of metal cleats on would be safer or at least easier than crossing in a raft imo 

lucas funkhouser wrote:

Yeah. Honestly crossing the log with some sort of metal cleats on would be safer or at least easier than crossing in a raft imo 

If they only made something like that, you know like what people wear for crossing glaciers.

I was thinking of something along the lines of baseball, golf or, track cleats. I know loggers have cleats made for this exactly. Crampons would work, if you have them, but who wants To drop a benji for a ten foot river crossing.

​Ps: I may be bias as I was raised in team sports 

Checked that rock few years ago, not many cracks,lots of lichen, moss, send in bryan burdo. Snoquera falls has 5.7-5.8 scuzy route thru falls area.

Jack Carbon wrote: Checked that rock few years ago, not many cracks,lots of lichen, moss, send in bryan burdo. Snoquera falls has 5.7-5.8 scuzy route thru falls area.

Good to know. Do you recall how you crossed the river or the rock type? Andesite/basalt I’m guessing 

lucas funkhouser from the monolithic look of that rock I would say that it is granodiorite of the tatoosh pluton.  A geologic map of Mt. Rainier shows quite a bit of it in the n.e. corner of the park.

fossil wrote: lucas funkhouser from the monolithic look of that rock I would say that it is granodiorite of the tatoosh pluton.  A geologic map of Mt. Rainier shows quite a bit of it in the n.e. corner of the park.

Awesome thanks. Where would I find that map?

Clint Cummins wrote: ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/prod…
and look for the orange  "Tdi"  areas.

It looks like the crag itself is of volcanic breccia, sandstone, and siltstone of epiclastic and pyroclastic origin “To”. I does but up next to “Tg” granodiorite and quartz monzonite.