Trip Reports
It was skills day at Base Camp for the June 1 Team. Lead Guide Sebastian Grau reviewed glacier travel skills with the team and each team member prepared his/her sled for the move to Camp1. The Team plans to make their move to Camp 1 in the early hours of the morning, around 3:30 AM,…
Dan Starr called in the evening expedition dispatch for our May 25th Denali team this evening. They are settled in at the 14,000 ft camp and today went back down to pick up the cache of food and fuel they left a couple of days ago at 13,500ft. It’s a relatively short day so everyone…
They May 18th team spent the day resting and recovering at high camp today after a big climb yesterday to 17,200ft. The weather is beautiful, and looks like it will continue to be great for a few more days, so they are hoping to get to the summit tomorrow after this day of rest. They…
The May 28th Denali team enjoyed the beautiful weather in the Alaska Range today. They are at the 11,000 ft camp again today and went down to where they’d cached some food and fuel 2 days ago to retrieve their cache and bring it up to the 11,000 camp. This is called a “back carry”…
The June 1 Denali West Buttress team is off to a great start! They had a beautiful day and flew into basecamp on the Southeast fork of the Kahiltna Glacier on schedule today. The flight from Talkeetna takes about 45 minutes and takes climbers from the warm summer weather up to 7000 ft where they…
Mountain Trip guide Jesse Wright called in on behalf of our May 21st West Buttress of Denali team. The team took advantage of nice conditions to carry loads of supplies up the steepest part of the West Buttress route to cache at an elevation of about 16,400′. The crew departed camp early with backpacks full…
Welcome to the trip dispatches for the June 1 Mountain Trip Denali Team! Our Denali season is in full swing, and another crew of climbers has joined together to fly into the Alaska Range and embark on a 22 -day expedition to climb Denali (20,310′) on the West Buttress Route. Let’s meet the climbers!…
Brain Kramp called in for the May 18 Denali team from high camp! They climbed in beautiful weather today up some of the most technically challenging terrain on the West Buttress route to their camp at 17,200 ft. The views from this camp are amazing, and they enjoyed great weather today. Everyone is in their…
The team enjoyed beautiful weather for the move up to Camp 2. They retraced their steps from yesterday and continued on past the cache site to 11,200′, the location of Camp 2. It sounds like the team is moving well, fueled by the guide team’s yummy cooking. And did I mention ice cream for dessert?…
Lead Guide Ben Adkison called in the trip report tonight. He reports that the team had great weather for moving a load of equipment and supplies up the fixed lines, to a cache site at 16,400′. The terrain immediately above the 14 Camp starts out pretty mellow, but the slope increases as the climbers…