Trip Reports
The team traveled through the night last night from Camp 2 at 11,000 ft down to base camp. It was a long final push, but they had relatively good conditions and they were motivated to get back to the world of hot showers and cheese burgers. They spent several nervous hours at base camp watching…
The Honey Badger team is split up now, but most of the team is at base camp this morning and waiting for a flight to Talkeetna as soon as the weather allows. Marty and Denali have remained up at the 14,200ft W. Buttress camp with Kenny who is having some medical issues and waiting for…
It continued to blow and snow up high on Denali yesterday, and the team finally decided to pack it up and head down. It has been an extended period of terrible weather up high on the mountain (there have been several records broken for cold and rainfall in AK this summer…) They descended to Camp…
The June 24 WB expedition is back in town! We made it back to Anchorage this afternoon after a late-night extra-special TAT glacier pick-up from Paul Roderick and his Turbine Otter “0 Papa Romeo” yesterday. We, that is the remaining strongholds of our original team, Matt Foote and Karin Schoeman, and Adam and I. We…
The team is back in Talkeetna after a long push through deep snow and tough weather to get to base camp. Our friends at Talkeetna Air Taxi went above and beyond (once again) to get the team out in a small break in the weather late last night. The climbers put in a ton of…
Lead guide Marty Schmidt called in an update from 14,200′ camp. He provided some additional details of their summit day, which sounds like a tough one. Great job by everyone! They are going to head back down towards the airstrip at 7,200′ and should be back in Talkeetna in the next day or so (weather…
Kevin Koprek called from 14,200′ with an update. The team has been stuck at camp due to deep snow with unstable layers on the slopes above them. Kevin described it as a “layer cake of snow,” meaning multiple weak layers, with a thicker slab towards the top, a result of the wind event that followed…
The team is sitting at their camp in the broad basin of 14,200′ Camp. The snow has been falling steadily, and they are waiting for conditions to improve before making a push up to the 17,200′ high camp. Reports of chest deep snow mean that they will have their work cut out for them, when…
The June 24th team is sitting tight at the big basin camp at 14,200′. They are on day 18 of their expedition and are discussing some very tough choices that are before them. They really need to head up soon, or they will run up against the projected “end date” of their trip. Some of…
Lead guide Marty Schmidt called in a post at 3 am after Team Honey Badgers returned from the summit of Denali! They saw a relatively narrow window of opportunity and headed up. It sounds like the weather was fairly burly at times, and it took them a long time to make the round trip to…