[slideshow] The perimeters of a comfort zone can be uncomfortable. This isn’t rocket science, but is often something we drift through life unaware of. Often because we never venture farther than the borders of our daily routine. As I sit in an Anchorage city park and watch the wind go through the leaves on a…
The sun is shining up at base camp this morning and the planes are coming in right now. They will be back in Talkeetna by noon, and plan to be in Anchorage tonight.
Durny called this evening from base camp and said that conditions and visibility has improved a bit, but it is still not flying weather in there. They are eating dinner, and calling it a night, hoping to fly out tomorrow.
We just got word from base camp and the team has arrived! Unfortunately, the weather isn’t allowing planes to fly in and pick them up right now. They cached some good food at base camp when they flew in, so they’ll be eating well and waiting for the planes.
Durny called in from Camp 3 at 14,000 ft this afternoon. They are resting up today in preparation to leave for base camp tonight. It is going to be a long night for the crew, they’ll leave in the middle of the night and hope to be in base camp by morning. They hope to…
Lloyd Hudson calls in from the summit of Denali; elated and wishes his sister in England a happy birthday. [audio:http://mountaintripdenali2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/audio-post-2011-06-18-04-31-53.mp3|titles=Audio Post]
We received calls from both Mike Burmeister and Durny from the summit at 8pm. Both teams summited with all members and are currently headed down to high camp.
Durny calls in the post for yesterday- still at high camp. They received about a foot of new snow and temps in the -15 to 5 above 0 degrees Farenheit range. The forecast looks favorable for a Friday summit bid. [audio:http://mountaintripdenali2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/audio-post-2011-06-16-04-23-09.mp3|titles=Audio Post]
Bad weather across the range kept the May 29 crew sitting tight in high camp as the snow fell and the wind blew. Let’s hope for better weather down the road….