Mount Mckinley | Denali Cybercasts: June 2014

Hey everybody, this is Micah with Alp 10, we are now Team Transmission Garbled. We’re hanging out at 9,600 feet, our half camp between Camp 1 and Camp 2.

We had a beautiful day moving up the Kahiltna Glacier towards Kahiltna Pass.  Our team is moving efficiently, like a well-oiled machine, so stoked to see everybody feeling good and performing so well.  Tomorrow our plan is to move to 11 Camp and it looks like the weather is going to be another sunny day for us.

Hope everybody at home is doing well, cheers.

Hello, Reagan from Team Attitude 62 calling in again for Willie and Danny.

As I believe you know, we had a great summit day yesterday, so our Team name paid off.  Denali may be in a national park, but this is not a walk in the park, but this is not a walk in the park, so it’s kind of tough, but it was spectacular at the summit.  We had an incredibly clear day, and the Alaskan mountains that we had been looking up at and sideways to at all of our prior camps, was well below us. It was clear, it was beautiful, so the mountain has been good to us and we appreciate her generosity.

We are at 14 Camp, we moved all our stuff down and the plan is to head out tonight (again, the mountain willing) and then we will be at Base Camp tomorrow and hopefully fly back to Talkeetna.  We had a wonderful time, the Team is amazing. I think we’re all very fortunate to have the different Team Members, we can’t wait to see our family and friends, we love you all and we’ll see you soon, bye.

Hello faithful listeners, greetings from Alpine Ascents Team 8/Malibu.

We are tucked in here at 17,000 feet. Just enjoyed a nice dinner of macaroni and cheese and spent most of our day resting and building a giant wind wall. Depending on good weather tomorrow, we’re going to try for the summit.

Thanks for checking in and we’ll talk to you later.

Hello everyone, this is Ben and Pete here at 17,200 feet on Denali with Team Asian Invasion/Team #9. We are doing good today. Sorry we didn’t get a call in last night. We got up here a little late and had some work to do to get our tents set up and get our camp dialed in and we were pretty exhausted yesterday.

It took us about eight and a half to go from 14 up here to 17,2. We ascended the Fixed Lines up the headwall and picked up some more food and fuel that we had cached up at the top of the Fixed Lines a couple days prior. That made our backpacks pretty heavy coming up here and so we were moving a little bit slow coming up here. It was a very challenging day for most people to get up here, but in the end everybody did great. Everybody’s up here. We’re all still up here as a Team of eight, up here at High Camp which is great.

I’ll let Pete fill you in on what the rest day (we’re taking a rest day today) and he’s going to check back in later this afternoon/this evening and let you know the exciting news of our rest day. But right now we’re listening to some FM radio, picking up some soup and some hot drinks, and just relaxing most of the day here. Everybody’s doing good. The weather right now is a little overcast. It was snowing a little bit, a little windy, so it’s a good day for a rest day. And we’re hoping for a great day to go for the summit tomorrow.

We’ll check back in this evening and we’ll let you know what happened today. Talk to you soon, bye.

Hi everyone, this is Team Alp 7/Attitude 62. This is Willie and Danny calling from 17 Camp.

Today we have great news! Denali has given the opportunity to stand on the summit (5:30 Alaska time). Wonderful views all around us, impressive!

Bye bye.

Hello faithful listeners, this is Victor McNeil with Alpine Ascents Team 8/Malibu, calling in from 17,200 feet/High Camp on Denali.

Today we had a beautiful day. We moved up from 14 Camp to 17. Everyone did well. We had great views and great weather for our trip up here today. Now everyone is resting. We are going to take a rest day tomorrow and then we’ll be ready the next day if all lines up for our summit attempt.

That’s all, bye.

Good evening everyone, this is Sam with Alp 11, unnamed as of yet, stay tuned for that; we’ll come up with a Team name here pretty quick.

Well we, despite some thunderstorms in Talkeetna today, we managed to fly up here to Base Camp on the Kahiltna Glacier. And there’s clear skies and warm temperatures so everything’s looking good for us here. Our plan is to wake up early and start carrying weight up the mountain, hopefully getting close to the base of Ski Hill.

So stay tuned for our progress, but the expedition started off smoothly and everything is right on schedule. We’ll talk to you tomorrow. Bye.

Hey everybody, this is Micah with Alp 10/Team Cloudy with a Chance of Crushing.

Today we had another great day moving on the lower Kahiltna Glacier. We’re at the base of Ski Hill at Camp 1. Everybody enjoyed a great dinner provided by Chef Nick wearing his awesome “Kiss me, I’m the Cook” apron and with those tasty burritos everybody did want to certainly give him a kiss.

Tomorrow we’re planning to move up to 9,600 feet and it looks like the weather is going to hold out for us and be another warm day. Wish us luck! Cheers.

Hey, this is Micah with Alp 10/Team Cloudy with a Chance of Crushing giving everybody back home a digital high five from the Kahiltna Glacier.

The weather gods were kind to us today and we had a weather window that allowed us to fly into Base Camp this morning. After some review of skills, we packed our stuff up and headed down the lower Kahiltna Glacier to our Half Camp, where everybody is nice and snug and warm after a great stir fry dinner, hanging out at our first camp on Mount Denali.

We’re excited to move to the base of Ski Hill tomorrow and we’ll update you soon. Cheers!

Howdy folks, this is Danny and Willie calling from High Camp on Denali at 17,200 feet.

We left 14 Camp this morning when the weather broke, and made it up the Fixed Lines, and onto the Ridge where weather kind of moved in a little bit. And everybody did really well and made it to High Camp despite some adverse conditions.

And it looks like we’re going to have a really good day for a summit attempt tomorrow potentially. So we will be getting started around 10am Alaska time, and hopefully done around/before 10pm Alaska time.

Check back tomorrow. Alright, bye.