Trip Reports
Hi All, Hello again from Camp 2. Today is Thursday 3rd May and we’ve just finished lunch of chiapatti with sausage and cheese. Took a hike this morning up to the base of the fixed lines and took a look at a new route which was fixed yesterday. Very clear morning and camp 3 was…
Jason called in from Camp 1 at about 7,800′. The team is doing great and moved well up glacier on a beautiful, but cool day. This was a big push, as they traveled about 5 miles with the biggest loads of the trip. In a nutshell, they packed up camp and moved everything they…
Listen to the call from Camp 3 from our April 22nd team! It sounds like everyone is doing well, and getting a taste of Arctic mountaineering as it reached -33 c/ -27f last night. A pretty normal overnight low at 14,000 ft in the Alaska Range this time of year. The recording isn’t great, but…
Sean called in from base camp this evening to let us know that they are doing great. They spent the first day getting organized and practicing some mountaineering skills before heading up the mighty Kahiltna glacier towards camp 1 tomorrow. Click the link below to listen to his call. recording Spot GPS tracking.
Yesterday the team all moved up to Camp 2 here. A tough hike up in high winds yesterday. Winds were gusting to 25-30 knots, but today things have calmed down considerably. Were doing well, just moving around slowly as we readjust to the altitude. Its becoming a bit of an unusual season. Almost the entire…
Guide Yoshiko Miyazaki called this evening from their newly completed camp at 14,200′. They had yet another long day moving from camp 2 to camp 3, having spent 8 hours and 50 minutes making the path and routefinding through crevasse fields, but they all report being happy, but tired and ready for bed. Tomorrow may…
A layer of clouds in the Alaska Range didn’t keep the April 29 team from flying into basecamp- the team arrived at 7,100′ and set up camp for the first time, ate their first expedition meal and crawled into their sleeping bags. Lead guide’s call into the Mountain Trip office was cut off, as so…
Our April 29th team is about to fly into the base camp at 7,200′ (2380m) on the Kahiltna Glacier. They met yesterday in Anchorage and had a full day of team meetings, equipment checks and running around town to pick up last minute necessities. Today, they drove up to the small, end of the road…
Lead guide Mike Burmesiter called last night to report his team returning to camp 2 after an 8 1/2 hour round trip to cache gear above windy corner. They broke trail again to 13,500′ but Mike was happy with the strength and motivation of his expedition. Today they plan to pack up camp, travel the…
The team moved back up to Camp 2 for their second round of acclimatization early this morning. Sounds like everyone is moving great and they were up to C2 for lunch. It was a bit windy in the morning, but it settled down as they got up towards C2 and they were able…