Trip Reports
A high pressure system has moved back over the Alaska Range and blue skies and beautiful weather are being welcomed by all the climbers. We’ve had several more teams summit, and our West Rib team reached the summit on the 5th! It’s been a super successful season for the Mountain Trip teams so far this…
The Mountain Trip June 2nd Denali team got off to a bit of a slow start, with weather delays keeping them in Talkeetna waiting to fly for a couple of days, but they are on the move now. A high pressure system has moved back over the Alaska Range, and they have taken advantage of…
Laura called in from the May 30 team after climbing up to Camp 3 today. They are enjoying beautiful weather and sounds like they are doing great up there. Listen to Laura’s call from Camp 3. recording
Today the team did a “back carry” meaning they went downhill from their camp at 11,000 ft to the cache they left 2 days ago at 10,200 ft. They picked up their cache of food and gear and brought it up to their camp. It’s a relatively short day, usually not more than 2 hours…
Nicole had the honors tonight and called in from the 14,200 ft camp on the West Buttress. Today was a rest/acclimatization day after yesterdays big climb to the ridge at 16,400ft. They enjoyed beautiful weather and are ready to move on up to high camp tomorrow. Listen to the call: recording
Congratulations to the West Rib Team! Klara, Jay, and Eli had a beautiful day for the big push to the summit from their high camp on the West Rib. It is a huge accomplishment to successfully climb the entire West Rib to the summit, and requires a ton of work, dedication, and not a little…
Viviane called in this evening from Camp 2 at 11,000 ft. They awoke to snow, but the weather cleared and it turned into a beautiful day. They were able to climb up to 13,500 ft around Windy Corner to cache some food and gear to prepare to move up to Camp 3 at 14,200 ft…
It was a big day for the team as they carried loads of gear and food up to the ridge that leads to high camp in preparation for moving to high camp and the summit push. They had a great day and plan to rest tomorrow to be ready for the last big push. Listen…
Erik Guevara Merino called in from 11,200′ to give us an update on the day’s activity. The team descended to about 10,000′ to retrieve the cache of supplies that they had buried a couple days earlier. This is a pretty easy day, and they worked about two hours in total. Active rest days like this…
Mountain Trip guide Brian Kramp called in from 14,200′ today. The team had a pretty easy day today, dropping down about 800′ to retrieve the supplies that they had cached on the uphill side of Windy Corner. This makes for an active rest day, in that it only takes about 20 minutes to reach the…