Wednesday, June 8, 2016

2016 Denali West Buttress Team 5 (May 30 - June 19) Dispatch 9

June 8, 2016

Guides:

Andrew Yasso
Zach Lovell
Will Gordon

Climbers:

Rob Parker
Sanni Rannikko
Phil Simonet
Irma Vijn
Tjark de Vries
Stefan Jorritsma
Mark Munsters
Peter
Maaike Braat

AAI lead guide Andrew Yasso called in this evening to report on Team 5 up at Camp 3 (14,200ft) on Denali.

The team used today to back-carry down the mountain and picked up their cache from 13,700ft, and to fortify their camp. They also had some excellent food throughout the day, including a "Thanksgiving replica" dinner.



Tomorrow (Thursday) they plan to practice on the fixed-lines in preparation for hopefully making their cache on Friday. We're looking forward to hearing more from Team 5 tomorrow!



1 comment:

Ember said...

Rob! Got your message - hope you got mine! Technology failed us. All's well at home. Sending lots of love and thoughts of warm foxes!