Guide Pablo Parunjacas called in with an update on the Mountain Trip West Rib Expedition. Due to poor weather and more storm systems in the forecast, they have unfortunately chosen to abandon their original objective of the West Rib. Seth will be continuing on up the West Buttress route for the remainder of their expedition,…
The winter condition continue to hem guides and clients in at higher camps, as conditions prevent them from traveling safely up the mountain. Jerry, a client on the May 14 trip called in with an update on their stay at camp at 11,800 ft. The team spent the day getting a little exercise on a…
Mario Roncador called in one of my favorite posts EVER! Today, the team could not move up, as the weather up high was not suitable to allow travel, so Mario led the effort to build “The Pull Up Challenge!” Our crew dug a pit in the snow and set up a pull up bar, using…
Lead Guide Sebastian “Seba” Grau called in from the beautiful basin camp at 11,200′. The team slept in a bit this morning, before dropping down to retrieve the cache of supplies that they had buried a couple of days earlier. after digging their cache from the snow, they loaded it all up and hiked back…
Mountain Trip guide Yoshiko called in from camp on the Denali West Buttress route with an update. She said that the team has been facing a lot of high winds, cold and snow. They’ve decided to stay at 14,200-camp again this evening. The weather should improve by Monday at the latest, but for now the…
Mountain Trip HQ received a call from the May 14 trip, who are also socked in by the whiteout conditions at camp. They all reported being healthy and happy. The team is undoubtedly getting some time to update their journals, read some books and play cards. We weren’t able to catch the name of the…
Mountain Trip guide Kyle Bates called in an update on the May They left a cache up at 14,000 ft. and then returned down to their previous camp for the night. The team, led by guide Joe Butler, is waiting out the storm and high winds that have kept most groups stationary in camp at…
Mario, a climber on the May 6 West Buttress Expedition with Mountain Trip, called in a bi-lingual trip update today. Mario said the team is “pumped up (!!)” with anticipation for a possible summit window in the days to come. He reported that although they faced some high winds, they were the fastest team on…
Jeff Dobronyi had enough of a cell signal to send out a couple of pictures from today’s practice session above the 14,200′ Camp. 14,573′ Mount Hunter is in the distance. The team hiked uphill a bit, towards the next big challenge – the fixed lines. The fixed lines are two strands of rope, anchored into…
Mountain Trip guide Pablo Parunjacas called in with an update on the Denali West Rib expedition, who are currently camped at 14,200 ft. Today they completed a single-carry of supplies to cache up high at around 15,000 ft., past a ridgeline aptly named Windy Corner (which Pablo said was certainly living up to its name).…