July 6, 2015
The team is ready to move up to high camp, but the weather today didn't cooperate. It was a windy day up high on the mountain and they'll need some better weather to move to high camp. Everyone is doing great and ready to go when they get the chance.
July 4, 2015
Josh called in for a happy 4th of July post today. They are doing great and settled into camp, hoping to carry a load of food and fuel up to higher tomorrow in preparation for a move to high camp. Here's Josh from Camp 3: recording
July 3, 2015
The team was able to get the job done today of caching food and fuel up around Windy Corner at 13,500 ft in spite of the deep new snow and winds. The weather improved dramatically today after yesterdays storms and 2 feet of new snow, but the trail breaking up
July 3, 2015
The team enjoyed a break in the weather today and took advantage of the nice day by climbing up out of the 14,000 ft basin and caching food and fuel up near high camp in preparation to move on up. They are doing great and hoping for some nice weather
July 3, 2015
The team was able to battle the wind and snow yesterday enough to go back down to their cache and pick up their food and fuel. The weather has been pretty rough for the last day or two with over 2 feet of new snow at the 11,000 ft camp.
July 3, 2015
The weather has come back into the Alaska Range, with wind and snow at nearly all elevations of the mountain today. The June 23 team is hunkered down at Camp 3 (14,200 ft) and waiting for things to improve so they can continue their climb. Today they may see a
July 3, 2015
The team endured some pretty rough weather with more wind and snow making even descending Denali a challenge. They made it down to base camp early this morning after traveling through the night, and are back in the relative civilization of Talkeetna for breakfast this morning. Our van will pick
July 2, 2015
Dawn Weaver called in from 14,200' after the team took a rather leisurely day today. They slept in this morning, getting some well deserved rest following the tough day of moving up from 11,200' the day before. The smell of pancakes grilling in the kitchen tent greeted the climbers when
July 2, 2015
Lead Guide Adam Smith called in from 11,200' this afternoon. The team arrived just before a challenging snow storm hit camp, dropping 20 inches (.5m) of snow amidst 30 mph winds. The result was that they had to spend some time digging their tents out from firmly set up drifts
July 2, 2015
Durny and Jurgen are making their way back down to Base Camp, but it's been a bit slow going due to the tough weather conditions. They stayed at 11 Camp last night, and if the conditions permit they will continue their descent today.
