Minesh, Laura, and I are planning to climb Rainier at the end of July. We had a preliminary meeting about it last night, wherein we developed a training plan that basically devoured every single weekend between now and then. Our training regimen features climbs of Santa Fe Baldy, Lake Peak, Caballo, Bierstadt, Evans, Quandary, Handies, Mount of the Holy Cross, Eolus, Windom, Sunlight, and Truchas.

Unfortunately, much like the two weeks I spent in Vienna just before mountaineering in Mexico this past winter, I will be attending a wedding in Seattle and a conference in Tucson just before we hit the slopes of Rainier, so I'm going to have an acclimatization challenge again.