Trip Reports
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Albert C. called in a nice post from Team Fubar’s Camp 1 at 7,800 feet on the broad Kahiltna Glacier. Today, the team carried supplies higher on the mountain, dug a deep pit in the snow, and buried those supplies. This is called “making a cache or caching” in expedition parlance. The hike to the…
Jorge Luis Decurgez called in on behalf of the May 20th team, who have spent their third weather day in a row, camped at the 14,200′ basin on the West Buttress route of Denali. The team is doing well, but their food and supplies are dwindling with each passing day, so Jorge has asked for…