Category Archives: Mountaineering

Mountain man

I just returned from the most awesome high school & Junior high camp I’ve ever attended, near Oregon at the Klamath River for Adventure White Water Rafting with our church. I seriously had the best time. While there, I saw this interesting character who lived in the mountains and was very unique and inspiring. His...

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Washington/Oregon Trip Summary

Join Charleton Churchill Photography on Facebook Well, I’ll try my best to summarize my mountaineering experience between May 19-28. My mountaineering efforts in Washington and Oregon last month were met with challenges. Even though I had stood on the summit of Mt. Rainier before, this time, I chose to turn around near 12,000 ft., when...

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Mt. Rainier Photos

Here are a few photos from our Rainier trip.

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Rainier End

We are all exhausted and roasted.  I don’t have time to post muc, but we are all ok.  Only a few of us we’re able to summit the mountain.  There were dangers, people fell into crevasses, and turning groups back down the mountain, unable to summit.  We are leaving to Seattle today.  We have no...

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Mt. Rainier – Up the Mountain

Wow!! I just woke up this morning in our little cheap motel around 6:30a.m., and walked outside to beautiful weather, and felt provoked to say, “Wow, Jesus, thank you!” We are leaving in a few minutes to climb the tallest and most challenging mountain in the U.S, outside of Alaska, Mt. Rainier, in Washington. The...

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Mt. Hood – Part II

Well, we went up to Mt. Hood last night about 8:30p.m. to climb, and would probably wait until 10p.m. to start climbing when it’s colder and less ice-fall.  When we arrived, it was snowing and blowing snow about an inch per hour, with winds around 25mph, typically not good climbing weather.  We waited until 11p.m.,...

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Mt. Hood – Part I – The Beginning

I made it to Portland, Oregon about 2:30a.m. last night, slept over at relatives home, Don and Marilyn’s home, very nice, “anything is yours in this house” kind of family. I slept in until about 8a.m., very nice. Getting some free starbucks at safeway with my $50 safeway gift card I got when my truck...

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My New and Official Blog!!

Hello Everyone,…. I am excited to announce my NEW and OFFICIAL Charleton Churchill Photography blog.  I will be posting my recent blogs, which you can follow.  These posts will go directly into my Facebook account, so whether I Twitter from my iphone, Facebook, or Post a blog, it will all be interconnected, and anyone can...

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Mountaineering Shots. I love the Mountains!!

Here are some images of my mountain climbing experiences on north America’s highest peak, Mt. McKinley, Alaska, also known as DENALI. These are just a few shots, but it was a great climb for the past two years with a few different teams. I will be going back up to Washington and Oregon to climb...

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