Denali is a fickle gal and she certainly threw a few curve balls our way. Record high temperatures in Talkeetna made for dangerous rockfall conditions around Windy Corner and on the fixed lines, causing us to travel at night even on the upper mountain. We could also smell and see the smoke from wild fires…
The team traveled through the night for the last 5 or 6 miles to base camp. They are resting in camp this morning and hoping to fly out to Talkeetna as soon as the clouds clear enough for the planes to fly in and pick them up. Everyone is excited to get back, and hope…
Jonathan called in the report tonight from High Camp. The Team is back, safe and sound, and resting at High Camp. It sounds like summit day was “eventful”; Jonathan said that just as he reached the summit some weather moved right in. We will have to wait to get all of the details and we…
Caitlin called in this evening as the team returned to high camp from their trip to the summit. Caitlin said everyone is back and safe after getting within feet of the summit as an electrical storm came in. They descended quickly to get out of the lightning and it sounded a bit exciting. It’s almost…
Our guide Yoshiko Miyazaki-Back called in a nicely detailed post; however, the satellite connection did not cooperate all that much. We promise that this was not an attempt to protect company secrets, because Yoshiko listed three days worth of delicious dishes that were served to our team, fare quite unlike what is typically found on…
Jonathan Sugarman called in a post with some additional description of the Jun 9 Team’s experience and, more importantly, with a shout out to some special people in his life: recording
As not everyone called in yesterday, we thought you all might appreciate an update on the teams whereabouts. The June 9, Into Thin Hair Team was poised and ready to carry a load of supplies up the steep Headwall section of the route yesterday, but high winds above their camp kept them from making the…
Jean Francois Jenck called in a post from the expansive basin camp at 14,200′. The team got an early start to beat the heat and pushed around Windy Corner at about 10 am local time, arriving at the 14,200′ camp several hours later. Yes, it can be quite warm on a glacier at 14,000′ above…
Jonathan Sugarman called in from the beautiful basin camp at 11,200′. He made two attempts to call, but the steep walls of the basin to the south make it very difficult to get a satellite signal from their location. Our teams carry radios that enable them to communicate with other Mountain Trip teams on the…
As we have tried to stress in our previous posts, satellite calls from Denali are not a sure thing, and this season it seems as if satellite connections are more temperamental than ever, so teams cannot always call in an audio post. We do have updates on all of our teams, and want to keep…