July 5, 2011
They had a nice day at high camp today, picked up some gear from their cache on the ridge, and are ready to go for the summit tomorrow morning. They are doing great and hope to go early tomorrow. We'll post any updates we get as the day goes by.
July 5, 2011
The team is back in Talkeetna and they were enjoying breakfast at the Road House when they called. It was a good cold night on the glacier last night, so they were able to walk down on a frozen surface relatively easily. It can be pretty challenging this time of
July 4, 2011
They made it up to high camp at 17,200 ft after breaking trail through 1 1/2 feet of new snow today. It turned into a nice evening, and they settled into camp next to another Mountain Trip team who summited today. They plan to take a rest day tomorrow after
July 4, 2011
Joe Butler called in from 11,200 ft tonight after moving up in near white-out conditions. They were able to use their GPS and familiarity with the route to travel in what Joe described as being inside of a Ping Pong Ball. They are all doing great, and really happy to
July 4, 2011
Jacob just called in from the summit of Denali! They had to break trail through some pretty deep snow at times today, so it was a lot of work, but they made it. It is a beautiful evening up there, no wind and blue skies above. A great way to
July 4, 2011
Jared called in this afternoon from Camp 2 after returning from a successful day. They carried a load of gear, food, etc. up Motorcycle Hill, around Windy Corner, and cached it just about 1 hour short of Camp 3 at 14,200 ft. After digging a hole in the snow and
July 4, 2011
Durny called in this afternoon to say they were celebrating the 4th of July by climbing to high camp at 17,200 ft. They left late this morning, waiting to see what the weather was going to do. It was still snowing a bit, but was letting up a bit and
July 4, 2011
Karen called this evening from our June 12 expedition heading back down to base camp. They stopped at 7,800 ft ,Camp 1, and spent the warm part of the day there resting. They'll wait for the coldest part of the night and travel the last 5 miles down to base
July 4, 2011
Jacob called this morning to say they were finishing a bit of breakfast and packing up to try for the summit. The weather has improved this morning, and they are going to give it a try. We hope to hear from them on the summit late this afternoon. They'll try
July 3, 2011
Jared just called to say they were in camp all day today while the snow fell on Denali. It was the story up and down the mountain, pretty good snowfall and very little movement by our climbing teams. They are all doing great, and a day of rest doesn't hurt
