Trip Reports
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…
Well, the weather is breaking and the patient members of our May 26th team are flying to the glacier! They have spent five full days doing the “Talkeetna Hang,” which might well be a Mountain Trip record. Josh Garner sent us the following post, and Ian Nicholson shared the images below. “6 days into our…
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…
The May 12 team was one of the only teams to move anywhere on Denali yesterday as they pushed through the wind and snow to descend to basecamp. They joined over 100 climbers who are waiting to fly out to Talkeetna, some who have been waiting for almost a week now due to the un-flyable…
The team is still at base camp waiting for a flight back to Talkeetna. It’s been a long stretch of bad weather across South Central Alaska and in the Alaska Range and no flights have gone in or out of base camp for almost a week now. We are still watching the forecasts closely and…
The weather has continued to stop the climbers from accomplishing much today. Both teams remained in their camps and are hoping for the weather to improve in the coming days. The forecast is still looking optimistic for nice weather early next week.
Mike called in a nice descriptive update from the team’s original camp at 7,800′ on the main body of the Kahiltna Glacier. The team has had a change of plans and is now going to attempt to climb up the West Buttress, or at least as far up the route as they can with their…
Well, this is a first for us… The May 22 team is camped at 11,200′, where they have been hammered with tough weather of late. They received two feet of snow overnight, along with high, cold winds. They were again unable to move from their camp, but they have plenty of food, and have been…
They team is still hanging tight in camp at 14,000ft waiting out this long stretch of wind and snowy weather. They spent the day practicing some mountaineering skills on a steeper hill just out of camp. They practiced using the rope in running belays, and passing anchors, which are skills that they’ll put to…
It’s been a pretty long stretch of wind and snow in the Alaska Range for the last days, and it is expected to continue through most of the weekend. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, as the snow is expected to taper off and winds die down by late Sunday and…