The team was able to move up the fixed lines yesterday and make a new home at High Camp! As reported, the team will be able to decide now when to make their summit bid. Denali has seen a long lasting warm and sunny high pressure system which has allowed teams to move comfortably up…
Lead guide Ty Guarino let us know that the team successfully made it to Denali Basecamp yesterday! Let the adventure begin! Talkeetna sits at 348′ (106m). This time of year it is full spring there, everything is lush and green. Talkeetna sits literally at the end of the road to the Alaska Range. It has…
Michael updates us after some snow camp cheesecake! Teams on Denali are experiencing warm and sunny weather in this extended high pressure system. Today the team left Camp 2 at 11,200′ (3413m) and descended to their cache site at 10,200′ (3108m). They dug up their supplies, loaded them into their packs, and marched back up…
Corell calls in to report the team has moved up to Camp 3! Getting to Camp 3 is always an exciting and somewhat pivotal point of the expedition. Many climbers congregate here (there is likely somewhere around 200 people at this camp right now) as they wait for their opportunity to move to High Camp…
The team called in from the top of North America yesterday evening!!! Congratulations to the team! We did get a report that the entire team made it back to High Camp last night after their summit. We are so excited for them and happy to hear that they are on their way down. They will…
Rob and Nathan update us from Camp 3 last night. Thanks Nathan for giving us a run down of what it’s really like to climb on an expedition team! We try our best to convey on our dispatches what teams are doing on the mountain and how it all works. There are a lot of…
Yesterday the team packed up camp at Camp 1 (7,800′ 2377m) and lugged all their gear first up Ski Hill which rises about 1,200′ above Camp 1. From here the team experiences some rolling terrain back up their cache site at 10,200′ (3108m). They continue climbing past the cache site up another hill into a…
Yesterday, the ski team took a rest day at Camp 3 after enjoying some great skiing the day before. They hope to be moving up to High Camp today, joining another Mountain Trip team who just arrived there. From there, they will decide if they need to take a rest day at High Camp and…
The team enjoyed beautiful weather up to the cache at 13,500′ (4114m). At this point, the team will leave their snowshoes behind and mount their crampons. This is where the West Buttress route starts to get more interesting. Leaving Camp 2 the team first ascends Motorcycle Hill (named after the equally steep hills motorcyclists are…
The team was able to climb up the fixed lines yesterday and move camp to High Camp at 17,200′ (5242m). Hopefully the team only has to spend 3 nights here, but it will depend on the weather and how the team is feeling. The team might be taking a rest day today, as most teams…