Good News today as the first team of the season has summited. This was mixed team fixing ropes. After 1pm today the summit was reached. We have heard news also from the North side that the ropes are going in there also. Our team is good. We just returned from another hike over towards Pumori…
DetailsNick Shepherd and his team are feeling strong and are excited about the high pressure system. Yesterday they traveled down the glacier and picked up their cache at Windy Corner.
Joe Butler, Kaern Bockel and the Tylers carried loads around Windy Corner and cached at 13,500′. It was hot but otherwise the weather was perfect.
John Race and company moved up the glacier from camp 1 to camp 2 yesterday, which is located at 11,200′.
We had a somewhat surprising development over the past 36 hours. The small April 29th team has decided to turn back and not make a summit push. There have been numerous factors that have resulted in this decision, including weather, health and team dynamics. Jason Gross has decided to remain at the 14,200′ camp in…
John Race called in a message last night to report that the May 13th team made a carry of supplies up to the head of the Kahiltna Glacier, at about 10,200′. They dug a deep hole in the snow, buried all their kit, and then dropped back down to their Camp 1 at 7,800′ to…
Matt Pickeren called in from the team’s Camp 2 at 11,200′. The team dropped back downhill to pick up the cache that they had left at about 10,400′ after sleeping in until the sun baked them out of their tents. It sounds like they are eating well, and Matt describes some of their meals, along…
Angela called in with a report from chilly Camp 3 at 14,200′. She is sharing her birthday with lead guide Nick and it sounds like they made the day fairly festive up there! It was cold last night with temperatures hitting -20F at night, however; the sun came out and warmed things up a lot…
Joe Butler called in a report from the Tyler’s Denali team, and it sounds like they just might be having too much fun up there, what with the multiple references to having some laughs…! They took an active rest day today, meaning that they only worked for about a couple of hours, and ate and…