The team traveled through the night last night from Camp 2 at 11,000 ft down to base camp. It was a long final push, but they had relatively good conditions and they were motivated to get back to the world of hot showers and cheese burgers. They spent several nervous hours at base camp watching…
It continued to blow and snow up high on Denali yesterday, and the team finally decided to pack it up and head down. It has been an extended period of terrible weather up high on the mountain (there have been several records broken for cold and rainfall in AK this summer…) They descended to Camp…
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…
Kevin Koprek called from 14,200′ with an update. The team has been stuck at camp due to deep snow with unstable layers on the slopes above them. Kevin described it as a “layer cake of snow,” meaning multiple weak layers, with a thicker slab towards the top, a result of the wind event that followed…
The team is sitting at their camp in the broad basin of 14,200′ Camp. The snow has been falling steadily, and they are waiting for conditions to improve before making a push up to the 17,200′ high camp. Reports of chest deep snow mean that they will have their work cut out for them, when…
The message is garbled, but yesterday the June 26th team called in to report that they were hanging tough at 14,000 ft camp. They are in good company, sharing 14,000 ft camp with another Mountain Trip team, but it sounds like they are anxious to keep heading up the mountain. Once the weather clears and…
The team spent the day watching the snow and wind up at Camp 3 today. Yesterday they were able to go back down and pick up the cache they’d left a few days earlier down near Windy Corner. They are doing well, but anxious for some sunny skies and calm winds.
They moved on up to Camp 3 at 14,200 ft on a beautiful day. It sounds like they are doing great and certainly happy to be moving up the mountain again. Here’s Kevin with the evening call from Camp 3. recording
Yesterday the team carried a load up and around Windy Corner to about 13,500 ft. They put in a cache of food and fuel in preparation for moving up to Camp 3. It was a good day up on the mountain and they are having a great time and working hard. Today the team is…
The June 26th team, along with most everyone else on the mountain, stayed in camp today while the wind blew and the snow fell. The weather improved slightly as the day went on, and the forecast is for a better day tomorrow. They relaxed a bit today, and are excited to climb again when the…