Sid Barass called in on behalf of the May 20th West Buttress team. His post became a bit garbled before the satellite connection was lost. Most of the Iridium constellation of satellites pass well south of Denali, so transmissions are challenging sometimes.

The team had a relatively leisurely day today, starting with breakfast in bed. Once up and around, they threw almost empty packs over their shoulders and dropped downhill about 30 minutes to the site where they previously cached supplies on the uphill of Windy Corner. After digging up their cache and sorting loads, they hiked about an hour back up to Camp 3 for the day.

Here’s Sid!

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