The team carried the remainder of their food and fuel up to Camp 3 from their cache site down near Windy Corner today. The next move is to cache food and fuel for the eventual move to high camp, so they’ll see what the weather brings for tomorrow. The 14,200 ft Camp 3 is a…
Word came through the Mountain Trip grapevine: the May 12 group traveled a short distance down the glacier to pick up their gear at 14 camp. Weather has been hitting the entire mountain today, but at least at 14 camp the afternoon turned relatively balmy and the team took advantage of the day to acclimatize…
The May 12th team experienced 40/50 mph wind gusts yesterday, so they stayed hunkered down in their tents at camp. Sounds like they didn’t have it too bad—-Durny prepared a pizza dinner! The team woke to a bluebird day, and they moved a load of gear and supplies to a cache at 13,500 ft. Unfortunately…
Lead guide Rob “Durny” Durnell called in after today’s back carry to retrieve the cache the team left at about 10,000′ a couple of days ago. All is well and the team did great, despite a chilly, brisk morning. It sounded like the weather broke a bit, and left the team with a nice dusting…
Our guide Gary Falk called in a report from the stunning basin at 11,200′ at the base of the West Buttress proper. His team moved up to their Camp 2 in windy conditions, but it was fairly warm, so they were able to press on. This camp is really beautiful, and looks out over the…
Wow… This is the third post in a row that I am pretty much totally confused about! I am fairly certain that our Norwegian friend Hilde is calling in to her friends and family, but my Norske is extremely rusty… If anyone can help translate, “tusen takk!” recording
We received a phone call from our May 12th Team, and I am afraid I cannot help too much, as it seems to be in French? If anyone can help, by posting some translated excerpts, I’d really appreciate it! They are at Camp 1, located at about 7,800′ on the main body of the Kahiltna…
Silvia called in the team’s report today. She reports that the weather is beautiful and sunny, the team is eating well (pancake breakfast!), and practicing glacier travel skills. The plan is to move up the glacier to Camp 1 at 7800 feet, a distance of 5 miles from base camp. Here’s Silvia: recording
Our May 12th West Buttress Team is on the glacier!! The team had a busy day of driving from Anchorage to Talkeetna, checking in with the National Park Service and then loading up a couple of ski planes for the 40 minute flight to the southeast Fork of the Kahiltna Glacier. Thanks, Silvia, for this…