Trip Reports
Mountain Trip’s final teams of the season are both holed up, waiting for the weather to improve before moving up to High Camp. It sounds like the June 21 Team is taking advantage of the down time by eating well, playing games, and fortifying their camp from high winds. Here’s Clayton with today’s report:…
Daniel called in the team report today, but unfortunately the satellite connected was weak and the call dropped. The team is happy and hunkered down at 14 Camp, waiting for the weather to improve to continue their ascent. Here’s Daniel with the abbreviated report: recording
Guide Stephen Burns reports that the team took a rest day at windy, stormy 14 Camp today. Rest days are a great opportunity for a team to rejuvenate, hydrate, and prepare for the big move to high camp and the upper mountain. It sounds like the team is eating well and keeping spirits high! …
The June 21 team enjoyed a well-deserved rest day at 14 Camp, located in the beautiful Genet basin. Team members took the opportunity to fortify camp by building snow walls to protect camp from forecasted high winds and snow. A rest day also gives a team the opportunity to generally rest, relax, hydrate, and prepare…
Unfortunately the audio message from Lead Guide Jesse Wright is garbled due to communication vagaries in the mountains; however, the team descended to Base Camp and awaits a return flight to Talkeetna. A prolonged forecast of high winds and disturbed weather was the reason the team made the tough decision to head down. But everyone…
Lead guide Harrison Lewis got on the radio after the June 23 team’s celebratory dinner for their first night at 14 Camp! 14 Camp or Camp 3 14,200 ft (4328 m) is midway up Denali and is the most well-equipped of all the camps on the West Buttress route. Everyone is in good spirits and…
Lead guide Kyle Hornor called in the dispatch for the June 21 Denali expedition team that has been making steady progress up the West Buttress route and has landed at Camp 3 14,200 ft (4328 m) midway up the mountain. Since this team began their climb of the tallest peak in North America, Denali 20,300…
The June 18 team called in from sunny Camp 3 14,200 ft (4328 m) from a “very chill” rest day that is allowing them to recuperate and look ahead to making their move up higher up on the route. Clear skies have this crew hoping that the weather will hold so that they move to…
Mountain Trip lead guide, Harrison Lewis, called in yesterday evening to report that the June 23 team is in high spirits and doing well at Camp 2 11,200 ft (3413 m). The guides and climbers took an “active rest day” to descend back to their gear cache at 9,600 ft. There they unburied the gear…
Cheers to the June 18 team for catching a weather window to move from Camp 3 14,200 ft (4328 m) to the cache site at 16,000 ft (4876 m). Mountain Trip lead guide, Jesse Wright, was able to move his team out of camp after a 1-hour weather delay and made excellent time moving up…