Trip Reports

May 30 Team Calls From 11,200′

Lead guide Scott Woolums called in after a tough move up to 11,200′.  The team moved up through very deep snow yesterday, arriving in the beautiful basin camp of 11,200′ only to have another foot of snow fall on them overnight.  Conditions are pretty challenging right now for the climbers! They plan to drop back…

May 18 Team – Summit!!!!

Our May 18th team awoke yesterday to blue skies, so they suited up and got ready to roll!  unfortunately, just as they were about to clip into their ropes, a big, nasty lenticular cloud formed over the upper mountain, causing them to apuse and put the breaks on their summit hopes. After a couple of…

June 1st Denali Team is Moving up Glacier

Lead guide Jacob Schmitz called in from Camp1 at 7,800′ on the Kahiltna Glacier.  The team had a brief delay due to weather and could not fly out of Talkeetna on the 2nd, as planned.  They spent the day reviewing skills and so they were ready to hit the glacier running.  Well, actually, they got…

May 14 Team – Descending

Our May 14th team, which summitted just two days ago, rested yesterday morning at High Camp, after a long, hard summit day.  They packed up and left High Camp at about 2:00 pm local time, and descended the beautiful ridge down to the top of the fixed lines about a thousand feet lower.  They then…

JUNE 1 TEAM IN TALKEETNA

Our air services provider determined that the weather was not appropriate to fly into Base Camp, so the team spent the day exploring the small town of Talkeetna. Here’s a photo of the team in the process of weighing all of their food and equipment for the expedition. It’s a big task! Fingers crossed for…

MAY 22 TEAM CACHES AT 16400′

It sounds like it was a wintery day on the mountain, but the team was able to put in a cache of equipment and supplies at the top of the fixed lines, at approximately 16,400′. Team member Chris Hill called in a post after the team climbed up the steepest portion of the West Buttress…

SUMMIT! MAY 14TH TEAM

It sounds like it was a long day route finding in the clouds, but the May 14th team was rewarded for their hard work by reaching the summit. Congratulations to all team members for your hard work and perseverance during a period of unstable weather on the mountain. Here’s Seba: recording