Trip Reports
The team didn’t get much sleep last night, as they were out of bed by about 11pm to get ready to head to Camp 1. They want to travel on the lower Kahiltna glacier during the coldest time of the day to take advantage of a good frozen, firm surface. This makes walking the 5…
The team spent a good portion of the day today practicing the skills they’ll need for the steeper climbing they will encounter tomorrow on their climb up to 16,400 ft. They practiced techniques for climbing on a fixed line, and how to use the climbing anchors that the guides will be placing in the snow. …
The crew is doing great, and were able to cache some food and equipment up at 13,500 ft today in preparation for moving up to the 14,200 ft camp tomorrow. It was a beautiful warm day, with some clouds this afternoon. Durny said that he is having a hard time getting any of the other…
They finally got the nice weather that they’ve been looking for and moved up to high camp today. Janine is at 14,000 ft with a Mountain Trip team, she may be going down with another Mountain Trip guide in the next couple of days. The rest of the team made it up to high camp…
Here’s Jared calling in from Camp 1. They moved up early this morning. [audio:http://mountaintripblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/audio-post-2011-06-30-02-30-52.mp3|titles=Audio Post]
The weather wasn’t perfect today, but much improved, and the team was able to move up to Camp 3 at the 14,000 ft basin. They are excited to be moving up, and seeing some blue skies. They’ll be settling in to this camp for at least 4 nights to acclimate and carry some loads up…
The ski team is doing great and eating well. Durny called in this evening after a big Pizza dinner and they were about to have some cheesecake for desert. It was a pretty relaxing day, they skied powder back down to their cache at 10,ooo ft this morning and brought that pile of gear back…
Donald Alexander, selecting his lunch snack food for the next three weeks, with advice and supervision from guide Sean McManamy.
After a day of waiting for the snow to stop falling at Base Camp, the team members of our June 26th crew loaded up and flew the 45 minute flight into the Southeast Fork of the Kahiltna Glacier this morning. We call getting stuck in Talkeetna the “Talkeetna Hang.” This team got off pretty easy,…
Our June 28th West Buttress team is currently assembled at the Earth Bed and Breakfast in Anchorage, with all of their mountain kit spread out for our guides to look over. This is part of a very detailed equipment check that we perform for each team member before we begin any expedition. The rest of…