Lead Guide Dan Starr called in from 14,200′, after the team backcarried the supplies that they had cached at 13,500′ a couple of days ago. This was a relatively easy day of work, as they dropped back downhill for about a half hour, dug into their cache and carried loads back up to Genet Basin.…
Rusty called in from Camp 3 on the West Buttress route on Denali at 14,200 ft to report that they’d moved up today and everyone is doing well. It’s a big climb with all of their gear, and then when they arrive, they’ve got a lot of work to do to set up camp, but…
Dave called in the dispatch from the May 13th Mountain Trip Denali team this evening from the 11,000 ft camp. Today they climbed up to around 13,500 ft to put a cache of food and gear in the snow, and returned to Camp 2 for the night. They carried their loads up Motorcycle Hill, and…
Jay Patry called in a report from the basin camp at 11,200′ this evening. He was in high spirits, perhaps due to the Alaskan King Crab legs that they had for dinner tonight? Wow. Just. Wow… The team dropped downhill a ways this morning, in order to retrieve the cache of supplies they had left…
The team had a great day on the mountain, carrying a load of fuel, food, and some gear up to 10,200 ft from camp at 7,800 ft. They dug a deep pit in the snow and cached the extra food and fuel to pick up in a couple of days, and then returned to Camp…
The team moved up the broad Kahiltna Glacier today, carrying the heaviest loads of the trip roughly five miles (8 km) up glacier. Well, the route actually started with a descent from Base Camp, down the tributary Southeast Fork of the Kahiltna Glacier, following it as it flowed down to meet the main body of…
The team made it to Base Camp today! The weather did not look super promising earlier in the day, but as the afternoon approached, the clouds parted and they took advantage of a brief window in the rainy Talkeetna weather to fly to the Southeast Fork of the Kahiltna Glacier. Climbers come to Alaska from…