Lead guide Elias called in an update on the June 16 West Buttress Team who spent their day caching at 13,600′. The team traded out snowshoes and poles for crampons and ice axes to ascend up Squirrel and Motorcycle Hill to place a cache near Windy Corner. It sounds like the team had pleasant weather…
Lead Guide Elías de Andrés Martos called in on behalf of Sue and Andrew from the beautiful basin camp at 11,000′ on the Wets Buttress of Denali. The weather was a bit iffy today and they decided not to push the high winds that were scouring the route above them. Rather, they took a rest…
The June 16 Denali West Buttress Team called in from Camp 1 as they were preparing for dinner. The team was able to put in a cache of gear and food for the upper mountain at 10,600′. The team plans to move to their second camp at around 9,800′ today. Hopefully the pitter patter of…
The June 16 Denali West Buttress Team arrived at Camp 1 (7,800′) last night. The team hit the ground “running” (actually walking quite slow, due to heavy loads!) after flying into basecamp in beautiful weather. All Mountain Trip teams are now traveling on the lower glacier in the “Midnight Sun” at night due to high…