June 2, 2022
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
June 2, 2022
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
June 2, 2022
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
June 2, 2022
Howdy and big welcome to our June 2 West Buttress team, kicking off the start of another month on Denali! We are thrilled to join the team on Denali and work alongside them as they toil up the frozen slopes of The Great One. This team will join many others as
June 1, 2022
The team has arrived at Camp 3 at 14,200' (4328m)! Getting to this point is always pretty exciting. There are typically a lot of teams congregated here as they wait to move to High Camp and put in their summit bid. It's always a great opportunity to meet people from
June 1, 2022
The team is really making the best of having skis up on Denali! They climbed up the Rescue Gully, one of those couloirs or chutes I was describing, to High Camp at 17,200' (5242m) and then skied 3,000' (914m) back down to Camp 3 at 14,200' (4328m). Sounds like a
June 1, 2022
Kathryn updates us from Camp 3 last night. The team took a well deserved and no doubt much needed rest day. Rest days at Camp 3 can sometimes include walking to the Edge of The World as pictured below. Or skills practice including using ascenders and running belays with ice
June 1, 2022
One of our guide's, David Lapidus, called in last night. The team left Camp 2 at 11,200′ (3413m) early yesterday morning to descend not too far to their cache site at 10,200′ (3108m). They dug up their first cache of the expedition, packed it up, and ascended the 1,000′ back to
June 1, 2022
One of our guides, Kyle Horner, called in last night. The team was able to put in a cache at 10,200' (3108m), a little over halfway to Camp 2. Caching is an expedition style of climbing that allows teams to lighten their packs as well as acclimatize to the altitude. The
May 31, 2022
The ski team did some skiing above Camp 3 today. There are several "couloirs" (think rock chutes) coming off of the summit ridge that drop several thousand feet down to Camp 3. The apron (lower reaches of the run, where the rock chute opens up into a basin) of these
