Trip Reports
Lead Guide Eli Potter called in from Denali Base Camp at 7,800′ on the Southeast Fork of the Kahiltna Glacier. The team flew into the Alaska Range under clear, blue skies and had a really comfortable day reviewing the skills that each climber will need to employ as they climb towards the summit of North…
It sounds like the Rib team was busy today. The team woke to windy, snowy, cold weather and they determined that they would have another day at 14 Camp. But they made the most of it, including a trip to the “Edge of the World” and climbing a few laps in a crevasse near camp.…
Brian reports that the Team had a big day, moving to 11 Camp through several feet of snow and breaking trail the entire way. That is hard work! The team was able to retrieve their cache on the way to camp. The plan is to put in another cache, higher on the mountain, tomorrow. Here’s…
Thanks to guide Karl Welter for sending these photos of the team:
Four of our Mountain Trip teams are currently camped at 14,200′ on Denali. Both the West Rib Expedition and the May 11 West Buttress team have spent 14 days now at 14-Camp, tied for the longest time at one camp that any of us can recall in recent Mountain Trip history. This season has shown…
Mountain Trip lead guide Adam Smith called in with an update on the May 19 Denali West Buttress Expedition, who took another weather day at 11-Camp. At least a foot of snow fell on the camp, and accompanied by high winds, drifted up to three or four feet high. The snow level nearly buried their…
Climber Tim Spencer called in a report for the Mountain Trip May 22 Denali West Buttress Expedition, who took a much-needed rest day at Camp 3 after officially spending one week on the route. The spent the day refueling with good food, shoveling out their tents, catching up on reading, and getting to know the…
Climber Eric Greene called in an update for the Mountain Trip Denali May 15 West Buttress Expedition. The team has been at 14-Camp due to weather for the past six days now, along with the other three other Mountain Trip teams who have also been barred from moving higher by bad weather. Although Denali is…
Mountain Trip lead guide Dan Starr called in with an update on the May 13 West Buttress team, who have spent nine days at 14-Camp waiting out the storm. The wind has finally died down, the severely cold temperatures have risen a few degrees, but the weather is still not clear and certainty not warm…
The May 11 West Buttress Team called in once again from 14-Camp on the route to the summit of Denali. They have been camped at 14,200′ for longer than any other Mountain Trip team–for two weeks now. This is the longest time that we at the office can recall, in recent Mountain Trip history, that…