Trip Reports
The Mountain Trip May 26th Denali West Buttress expedition is underway! They met in Anchorage on the 26th, checked their gear and had a final meeting and briefing about the trip, then this morning they hopped in the Mountain Trip van and drove a little over 2 hours to Talkeetna, Alaska. In Talkeetna, they checked…
The team checked in from the 14,200 ft camp where they spent another day hoping for the weather to improve. It was another exceptionally cold night, but the weather is forecasted to improve early next week. Here’s the call.
Scott had the job of calling in the dispatch tonight from the May 22nd Denali West Buttress team. They moved up to Camp 2 at over 11,000 ft today, which is a long day of climbing, but they did great and are now settled in at camp and relaxing for the evening. Everyone is doing…
The May 13th Denali team is hanging in there in cold temps at Camp 3. Today they went over to a spot known as the “Edge Of the World” where they could look out across the Alaska Range and enjoy the vast views. The prolonged stretch of cold, windy, snowy weather has kept them from…
This prolonged stretch of cold, windy, snowy weather has mostly kept our climbers at the 14,200 ft camp for many days now. This morning they awoke to -40 temps, but clear skies, and after breakfast and letting the sun do it’s work for a while, they decided to go up and try to cache some…
Lead Guide Josh Garner called in from 14,200′ on the West Buttress route of Denali. The team has been managing the extreme cold that has made progress slow for all teams on the mountain over the past week. Josh reports that it was close to -40F overnight, which aligns pretty closely with what our other…
Our May 13th West Buttress team continues to wait at 14,200′, waiting for weather to improve, so they can move higher on Denali. It has been extremely cold, much colder than even Denali is known to be in late May. The team took advantage of not being able to move by digging a deep snow…
Our May 11 Mountain-Network West Buttress team is still waiting for an opportunity to move up the mountain to High Camp. It has been unusually cold this season and the team reported -45C temperatures during the night! Fischer Hazen called earlier and said he was warm enough in his tent, but he was wearing every…
Devin Gala called in on behalf of our May 22nd West Buttress team. The climbers shouldered heavy packs and attached laden sleds this morning and hiked up the Kahiltna glacier in cold winds to place a cache of supplies at 9,800′. Today was very cold and the wind just made things even harder. Everyone did…
The storm has passed, but the mountain is still not giving climbers a good opportunity to move high. It was still very, very cold today, with morning temperatures of -25F inside the climbers’ tents. Winds still blew plumes of snow off the ridge above the 14,200′ camp, so the West Rib team sat tight in…