Trip Reports
The team has enjoyed some beautiful weather so far on their time on the mountain. They’ve been getting up early in the morning and trying to beat the heat of the afternoon on the lower mountain so far. Today they carried a load of food, fuel, and gear up to about 10,000 ft, dug a…
The climbers are finally being rewarded for their patience over the last week of stormy weather with a beautiful sunny day. They took advantage and moved on up to high camp today after 11 days at 14,000 ft. It’s hard to explain how difficult it can be to stay motivated to climb during a long…
Drew called in this evening from their new camp at 9,600ft. The team is doing great, having made two previous camps to this point. The plan for tomorrow is to move camp up into the beautiful basin camp at 11,200′. Here’s Drew! recording
The weather has cleared and the climbers headed up the mountain today. The team took advantage of the sunny day to carry a load of food and fuel up to about 16,400ft on the ridge leading to high camp. They cached this load and descended back down to camp to spend one more night before…
The weather cleared today after the extended stormy period. The climbers started for high camp this morning, but Suzanne developed a cough and unfortunately needed to turn around. They descended back to 14,000ft camp to reassess and decided Suzanne needed to head on down. It’s certainly a frustrating outcome after sticking it out for over…
They are off to a good start and arrived at Camp 1 this morning after an early start. Listen to Duncan’s call from this evening. recording
The team is moving right along and made it up to 7,800 ft on the Kahiltna Glacier today. They’ve traveled about 6 miles up the glacier in the last 2 days and they’re doing great. The weather hasn’t been ideal with a bit of wet snow falling on the lower glacier, but it hasn’t been…
Another day of stormy weather in the Alaska Range today. The team is in good company up at Camp 3, with 2 other Mountain Trip teams waiting out the storm and hoping to move up the mountain. It’s been over a week now since our teams have been able to move up to high camp,…
If wishing could change the weather, our teams at Camp 3 would be moving up to high camp today, but unfortunately the weather isn’t so cooperative. It was another day of wind up high and snow, but things began to settle down as the day wore on leaving them with some hope of moving up…
The Traverse Team is back in civilization tonight after waiting once again for the weather to break so they could fly back to Talkeetna. They didn’t get to summit the mountain, but they sure gave it a good shot, spending 8 days at high camp in some pretty tough conditions. The weather didn’t cooperate on…