June 14, 2011
The team is hiking on tundra less than 24 hrs. from their pickup at the Denali National Park gate. If everything goes smooth they should be in the Mountain Trip van headed to Anchorage by 3pm tomorrow.
June 14, 2011
The team traveled to Talkeetna and checked in with Park Service, weighed their bags at the air taxi service and filled their water bottles, but the weather didn't cooperate and they spent the first night of their trip in Talkeetna. Guides call this the 'hurry up and wait' attitude, and
June 14, 2011
Mike called to report a successful rest day at high camp. Guide Sean McManamy is descending to basecamp with Shaun Gilbert and a guest from another expedition, they should be in basecamp at the time of this posting. Everything is OK but Shaun had some issues with the altitude that
June 14, 2011
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June 13, 2011
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June 13, 2011
Durny and company took a much-deserved rest day at 17,200' camp yesterday to recover from their long, hard move from 14 camp the day before. Their plan is now to wait for conditions that allow for a summit bid. Today? Tomorrow? Time and weather will tell.
June 13, 2011
[audio:http://mountaintripdenali2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/audio-post-2011-06-13-06-38-39.mp3|titles=Audio Post] To summarize: the team made a carry to high camp today, everyone moved well with steeper terrain. They plan to move to high camp tomorrow and will be "poised for a summit bid from there". Adams sends "Congratulations to Katie and Drew (for what???) " and wishes Janelle
June 12, 2011
[audio:http://mountaintripdenali2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/audio-post-2011-06-13-04-45-13.mp3|titles=Audio Post] Steve Haumschild gives us an update from high camp; describes it as a big 81/2 hour move up some 3,000 feet of vertical. Then the post is cut short... it seems that they're all bushed from the big day, probably having a big meal and heading to bed,
June 12, 2011
Hello everyone! This is Joe Butler with the final post for the May 12 Denali expedition. I want to congratulate all the members of our team! Although everyone did not make the summit, I strongly believe the expedition was a success as a whole. The team worked great together and
June 12, 2011
Greetings happy readers, Well things finished up well for our expedition, making it off the glacier all together (fingers and toes). We had a total of 7 successful summiteers reaching the highest point in North America on Memorial Day. I’m sure every one is back to their normal routine, with
