Trip Reports

May 16 Team – Carried to 16,400′!

Alan Rousseau called in from the team’s home for the past week to tell us that the team pushed their supply cache high on the ridge that leads to high camp today.  They donned crampons and scaled the steepest part of the West Buttress route, utilizing a couple hundred meters of rope that is affixed…

May 22 Team – Back To Work!

Dan K called in from our May 22 West Buttress Team.  Finally, the tough weather that has been hammering the team has broken and they resumed the hard work of moving their food, fuel and supplies further up the mountain. Today, they carried supplies up a moderately steep slope called Motorcycle Hill, which climbs immediately…

May 30 Team – Headed To Talkeetna!

Lead guide Scott Woolums called in with the first audio post for our May 30th Denali Team.  They choose to spend yesterday in Anchorage, rather than contribute to the backlog of climbers who have been stuck in Talkeetna for up to six days.  The weather has not permitted any planes to fly between Talkeetna and…