u/Jjflash20

Planning a strike mission of Rainier in the next few weeks via DC ascent, finger descent. My ideal plan is to minimize using vacation days from work by watching for a weather window, booking a flight into Seattle that departs after work, going to Paradise that night, sleeping a few hours, then climbing up and skiing down the following day then flying back the next day.

My question is, how do I make this work with permits? I see that we’ll need a climbing and wilderness permit but how do we pick that up if we won‘t get to Paradise until maybe 9pm the night before and we’d have an alpine start just a few hours later? Any advice is welcome. Thanks.