It was another cloudy, snowy, windy day on Denali and all of our teams are waiting for the weather to change. Jacob called in this evening after another day of snow at the 11,000 camp, and not much new and exciting to report. They are working their way through some of the books that they…
Jacob called in this evening from the 11,000 ft camp, wind and snow kept them from moving up to the next camp today, but they are all doing great. [audio:http://mountaintrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/audio-post-2011-06-26-23-25-17.mp3|titles=Audio Post]
Jacob called in tonight after dinner on a snowy day at 11,000 ft. They didn’t stray far from their tents today in the snow and wind. It was a relatively relaxing day, but the sun never really showed. The guides used their time to show off their mountain cooking skills, and made grilled cheese sandwiches…
James Gustafson called in this evening to update us on the team, which is doing great and enjoying some pretty serious sunshine. Tomorrow, the guide team will make a carry up to the next camp at 14,200′ and the climbers will take advantage of a rest and acclimatization day. By all accounts, everyone is doing…
Jacob called in this morning to report that they had already moved up to 11,000 ft and are settling in for the day. They got an early start again today, and everybody is moving great and doing really well. They plan to take an acclimatization day tomorrow to let their bodies catch up to the…
The June 19th crew is doing great. They are moving at night, due to warm temperatures during the day, to mitigate for squishy conditions on the lower glacier. The plan for today, Friday, is to move to 11,200 camp and take a rest day tomorrow, Saturday. [audio:http://mountaintrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/audio-post-2011-06-24-04-35-501.mp3|titles=Audio Post]
Jacob called in this morning from 9,800 ft on the Kahiltna glacier at the top of “Ski Hill”. They got up early again this morning and moved camp up the glacier. They’ll spend tonight there and move up to 11,000 ft tomorrow. Everybody is doing great and they are moving right along so…
The team slept a few hours last night, and were moving by 2am this morning on their way up to Camp 1. They traveled up the lower Kahiltna glacier for about 5 miles and gained just a few hundred feet from base camp at 7,200 ft to Camp 1 at 7,800 ft. They had a…
The team spent the night in Talkeetna last night, but were able to fly in to base camp this morning. The weather was beautiful up at base camp this morning, clear skies and views of the mountain looming above. They took a final picture before hopping in the ski planes to go to base camp.…
Our June 19th West Buttress team hoped to fly onto the glacier yesterday, but was stymied by inclement weather. The team met in Anchorage on the morning of the 19th for a team meeting and a comprehensive gear check. It was a pretty busy day and they made the rounds of the local climbing shops…