Team 11 reaches Half Camp in good style and relaxes while taking in beautiful views

This is Sarah calling from Alp 11, and I’m calling from the Kahiltna Glacier. We got up nice and early this morning, around 1:00 in the morning, and started traveling. We left Base Camp around 4, and we moved up the Kahiltna Glacier. We traveled at night because the glacier is more frozen, so it made for nice, smooth, easy travel and quite pleasant temperatures.

We got into camp in good style, everyone did great on our first move. We got some beautiful views and had plenty of time to relax this afternoon and had an early dinner. Everyone is happy and healthy. We’re still working on a name, we are leaning towards “The Meat Grinders” but we’ll let you know and we will call again tomorrow, bye.

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