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Trip Reports
May 20 Team – back in Anchorage
Apologies for the delay in posting about the May 20th team. We had a bit of a perfect storm of communication challenges for the past couple of days. The team decided that their time was running too close to the end of their food and supplies to continue attempting to move upwards. On Saturday, they…
May 31 Team – Carried Around Windy Corner
Team Fubar called in after making a tough, but successful carry around Windy Corner, which lived up to its name today. Strong winds buffeted the crew, but they tucked their chins down and set each step with conviction, pushing their loads of supplies around the steep, rocky ridge that drops down from thousands of feet…
May 26 Team Moves to High Camp!
Lead Guide Scott Woolums called from 17,200′, the site of the team’s High Camp for their West Buttress expedition. Showing why he has been one of the most successful and prolific guides over the past couple of decades, Scott’s team rallied early this morning to take advantage of clear weather and to get ahead of…
May 31 Team – tough day moving to 11,200′
Lead guide Adam Smith called in a fairly understated update from the basin camp at 11,200′. I say understated, because what is left unsaid is that the team had a very, very tough day today. They packed up their camp at 7,800′ on the Kahiltna Glacier, donned snowshoes and broke trail through 2.4 feet of…
May 26 Team – Carried up to 16,400′ (5000m)
Pachi called from Camp 3 after the team took advantage of good weather in the morning to push a load of supplies up to 5000 meters on the ridge above their camp. Today they climbed up the most steep part of the West Buttress, using 200 meters of rope that is affixed into the steep…
May 30 West Buttress Team – Backcarried to Camp 2
Our guide Karl Welter called in from the basin camp at 11,200′ with an update on the May 30th Team’s progress. Today, they dropped back down to retrieve their cache of supplies, which they had buried at about 10,200′ two days ago. The weather and snowfall made what is traditionally a pretty easy day into…
May 30 Team Backcarries supplies up to Camp 2
Lowell called in a quick update from the May 30 Team’s Camp 2 at 11,200′. Today was a relatively short day, for the most par, as the team descended down to the site of their cache at about 9,800′ and retrieved all their supplies. They hiked downhill for about 45 minutes, dug up their buried…
May 26 Team – waiting on the weather at camp 3
The May 26 Team spent the day watching the snow fall at Camp 3. The weather was pretty bad today, with a lot of snow and light winds. They have plenty of food and will wait for the weather to improve before carrying supplies up onto the ridge below their next camp. The route to…
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