Denali 2022: The Arctic Goons check in from 11 Camp

 

Hey everybody this is Mike with the Arctic Goons. I’m sitting here next to Chris and Nate and we just got cozy up in the tent, our team moved up to camp 11, folks are moving really well. We took about six hours to move up here from our previous camp at 7600 feet and got in the camp right around 4:30 PM. We dug tent platforms into the snow and we dug our kitchen into the snow and melted water for everybody and got everybody a really great meal of rice with the new noodle package. It sounds worse than it was. Have a great day!

 

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