May 31, 2025
The May 28th Mountain Trip Denali West Buttress team is heading up the mountain! The team flew in on Thursday to basecamp on the Kahiltna Glacier with all of their equipment, food, and supplies for a 20+ day expedition into the Alaska Range. They flew in just as a pretty
May 31, 2025
The May 24th team sat out the weather for the last few days with everyone else on Denali, and were able to get back to work today. The job for today was to go back downhill to retrieve the cache of food and supplies they left a couple of days
May 31, 2025
We are terribly sorry for the delay in updating all the audio posts called in from our Denali teams over the past days. We have been experiencing a glitch with our website and hope to have it resolved ASAP. We understand that this is terribly frustrating for all of you.
May 30, 2025
Ashley called in this evening from Team Louise back down at Camp 3/14,200ft. They have been going hard on this trip, having already made a trip up to high camp and retreating after the weather closed back down. They are settled back in at Camp 3 now, recharging and recovering
May 30, 2025
Mountain Trip guide Suzanna Lourie called in from Base Camp. The team delayed their departure for Camp 1 due to stormy weather, so they took advantage of the day to review skills and tighten up their systems before the make the move tomorrow morning. The weather began clearing in the
May 30, 2025
The weather kept the team in camp today. They are eager to drop downhill and grab the supplies they cached at 13,500 feet two days ago, but sometimes the mountain makes its own plan for you. They have plenty of food and fuel, and were able to get some additional
May 29, 2025
Lead Guide Steven Van Sickle called in from Base Camp on the Southeast Fork of the Kahiltna. The team is officially on the glacier! This morning, they departed Anchorage early, driving about two hours north to the (literal) end-of-the-road town of Talkeetna, Alaska. Talkeetna is often known a a small
May 29, 2025
Brian called in from 14,200 feet, after the May 20th team moved up from 11,000 feet today. They have had eight days of favorable weather and have been able to stay on their planned schedule (knock on wood!). Tomorrow looks like it could be a bit stormy and that coincides
May 29, 2025
Lead guide Jordan Cargill rang in an update on Team Louise (Lou-Lou) who spent the day doing darn near nothing at Camp 3. They took advantage of inclement weather to barely leave their tents and enjoy some well deserved rest after their rapid push up to High Camp and subsequent
May 29, 2025
Ed called in from Camp 2 at 11,000 feet, where the team is apparently fattening up on sumptuous food, while waiting for an improvement in the weather. Some days, all you can do is hang out, and hanging out is a whole lot easier when you have good food! On
