Mountain Trip's June 23, 2006 Denali Expedition

They made it to base camp. It took them only two days to come down what took them two weeks(nearly) to get up. They are in base camp this morning, and will fly to Talkeetna soon, as long as the weather holds. You should be hearing from the climbers today. Thanks for tuning in and congrat's to the climbers.

Bill and Todd

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Ryan called this morning from High Camp. It is a beautiful day, but everyone is pretty tired from the move to 17,200. They were debating wether they could go to the summit or wait until tommorow and hope for another nice day. We'll update this evening if we hear anything new.

-------UPDATE------

They Summited!!! The whole group was able to make it to the summit today! We just got a breif message that everyone is doing great, and they will start down tommorow. Congratulations to the whole team.

They were able to carry their loads up to about 15,400 feet yesterday, not as high as they would have liked. The new snow and high winds kept them from getting all of the way to the ridge. They were expecting more winds today, so they are probably waiting it out in camp again today, we will hear the reports this afternoon.

----UPDATE---

They were able to move up to high camp today!! Hoping to summit soon.

They had a bit of bad weather today, but were comfortably tucked in to their tents at 14,200. The activity of the day was shoveling snow, and eating. The weather is beautiful this evening, and they plan to carry their loads up to 16,200 tommorow.

They are hoping to carry loads to 16,200 ft today, but they weather sounds a bit crappy. We'll see how it goes, I hope to hear from them later today.

Ryan called in and the whole team is safe and sound at the 14,200 foot camp. They were able to move up today, and everybody did great. They will stay 4 nights at this camp acclimating, and getting ready for the move to high camp, and the last push. Tommorow they are planning on sleeping in late, and having a big breakfast of French Toast and bacon. Life is good, and the veiw is spectacular.

They called last night from 11,000 ft and had carried their load up to 13,500 feet. They returned to the 11,000 camp for one more night and will hope to be moving up to 14 today. They are eating well and we continue to give them updated World Cup results, so they are happy.