The June 24 WB expedition is back in town! We made it back to Anchorage this afternoon after a late-night extra-special TAT glacier pick-up from Paul Roderick and his Turbine Otter “0 Papa Romeo” yesterday. We, that is the remaining strongholds of our original team, Matt Foote and Karin Schoeman, and Adam and I. We…
The team is back in Talkeetna after a long push through deep snow and tough weather to get to base camp. Our friends at Talkeetna Air Taxi went above and beyond (once again) to get the team out in a small break in the weather late last night. The climbers put in a ton of…
The June 24th team is sitting tight at the big basin camp at 14,200′. They are on day 18 of their expedition and are discussing some very tough choices that are before them. They really need to head up soon, or they will run up against the projected “end date” of their trip. Some of…
Yesterday Tessa and Cason called in to report new snow and good reading at 14,000 ft camp. The team has been kept busy shoveling the accumulating snow, but they have also found time to relax and enjoy the beautiful light high up on the mountain. Once the weather and the snow conditions settle, the team…
Yesterday Karin from South Africa called in a report from the June 24th team. She said that they had lots of wind and approximately 3 ft of new snow at camp. The team will allow the snow to settle and the weather to clear before moving up to high camp at 17,000 ft. The team…
The team carried a load of gear up to 16,400 ft yesterday, and were hoping to move to high camp as early as today. The weather doesn’t look like it is going to cooperate for a move today, but it is expected to improve by Tuesday.
Today was beautiful up on Denali and the team had a nice mostly relaxing day. They had a leisurely breakfast and then went down the hill to 13,500 ft where they’d left a cache a few days earlier. They picked up the cache of food and fuel and carried back up to camp at 14,200…
Yesterday Karen, Adam and crew moved up to 14,000 ft camp. It was a pretty big day carrying pretty big loads and it required good weather to get around Windy Corner, so the team was happy to arrive in camp. Today the team will back carry down to 13,500 where they cached gear a few…
The team is at Camp 2 for another day in stormy weather, but the wind and snow began to let up this evening on the mountain. Here’s Tessa with the evening call and Happy 4th of July! recording Francisco was ill and had to leave the trip today, but he’s already back down in Anchorage…
Yesterday the June 24th team moved up and around windy corner to 13,500 ft to cache gear and supplies. They returned to 11,000 ft camp where they spent the night. Slowly and surely they are working their way up the mountain.