Trip Reports
Mountain Trip guide Fischer Hazen called in an update on the May 8th Deanli West Buttress team, who successfully cached up around Windy Corner at 13,500′, after weather had thwarted their attempts at progress for several days. The team is hoping to make the move up to Camp Three at 14,200′ today, May 19, where…
Climber Michael Kenny May 11 Denali West Buttress expedition called in from Camp Two at 11,200′ after a productive back carry. The team picked up their cache down near Kahiltna Pass and returned to camp at 11,200′ in greatly improved weather, finally able to catch the views of the spectacular high peaks around them. The…
Mountain Trip guide Jason Denley called in an update for the May 10/Brian Dagg West Buttress expedition at Camp Two. They are camped back at 11,200′ for the evening and hope to cache up around Windy Corner today (May 18) if the weather allows. The team descended to retrieve their buried cache from lower down…
The May 8th Denali West Buttress team reported that camp is sunny and warm! … inside the kitchen tent, that is. The climbers spent their second weather/rest day once again at 11,200′ Camp Two. As soon as weather allows the team will make their way higher on the route to bury a cache at around…
Fritz Bachmair calls in a very funny update on the May 11 Denali West Buttress Team. We certainly got a kick out of this one. From this description, it sounds like the team is really starting to get to know one another — and the typical conditions on the mountain — at this point in…
Mountain Trip guide Zack Keskinen called in from 11,200′ yesterday evening, May 16, as the team spent the day weathered in at Camp Two at 11,200′. Today they hope to move higher on the route if the weather cooperates. Here’s Zack!
Brian Muller called in from 11,200′, Camp Two, with an update on the May 8th Denali West Buttress team, who are taking a weather and rest day today. They awoke to high winds, moderate snowfall and poor visibility convincing them to take a weather day to rest rather than attempting cache in poor conditions. Brian…
Mountain Trip guide Brett Baekey called in for the May 13 Denali West Buttress Expedition, who are still unfortunately waiting on a weather window to fly into the Alaska Range in Talkeetna. Yesterday, they made it to the further reaches of the range’s glaciers when their pilot decided to turn around for safety reasons. The…
Mountain Trip guide Jason Denley called in an update on the May 10 Denali expedition with climber Brian Dagg; with guide Zack Keskinen on lead. The team was able to move up to Camp Two at 11,200′ from 7,800′ in variable conditions–which Jason colorfully equated to “walking through a milk carton.” Unfortunately the time they’ve…
Climber Matthias Aumayr called in an update for the May 11th Denali West Buttress team, who was able to set their cache today near the summit of Kahiltna Pass, above Ski Hill, to put them in good position for their jaunt up to Camp Two. The weather finally cleared for the team’s cache day after…