Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Camp 3/14,200 ft

They moved up to Camp 3 at 14,200 ft today. It was a beautiful day in the Alaska Range finally after a prolonged stretch of bad weather. Lot's of activity on the mountain today, teams moving up, and the first good summit day in almost 2 weeks. Another Mt Trip group was able to summit in beautiful weather today. Chris's crew moved up to Camp 3 on this relatively warm and windless day. They made pretty good time moving up, and were settled in for soup and dinner when he called at 7:30 pm AK time(Wednesday).

Everyone was doing great, but feeling a bit winded at this new altitude. They'll spend at least 4 nights at this camp acclimating, and caching gear in preparation for the move to high camp and the summit push.

Here's a view of Camp 3 from above. It's quite a tent city during the middle of the climbing season on Denali. Mt Hunter is the big peak in the back.
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8 comments:

  1. UnknownJune 4, 2009 at 1:41 AM

    Richard, Amy still thinks daddy is in a plane- its a long flight!! Hope weather holds up, its lovely here at the moment. Be Good. Mandy x

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  2. AnonymousJune 4, 2009 at 6:43 AM

    Yahoo 14,000+!!! Congratulations team and wishing you continued good weather. Thinking lots about Andrea and Manoel. Cindy & John

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  3. UnknownJune 4, 2009 at 6:44 AM

    Pascal,smoo good to hear the weather is better , you're doing great , all my colleagues at work are cheering you on and reading the blog too , hope you are keeping warm, thinking of you lots and sending you a big kiss, Sarah

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  4. NoraJune 4, 2009 at 8:08 AM

    Pascal, according to the circumstances I hope you feel good and fit too. I wish you, the weather will keeping up, fair weather for you all. All the best, Nora.

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  5. AnonymousJune 4, 2009 at 8:14 AM

    Oca Aljosa, zelo te pogresam in komaj cakam, da prides domov. Bulek je debel kot cevapcic, ker ne hodi vec na Pugled. Ribe so lacne. Si ti tudi? Aha, dolgujes mi zepnino za junij. Lepe pozdrave ti posiljajo otrok, racunalnicarka in barvar

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  6. Just meJune 4, 2009 at 9:57 AM

    Hey anush...Good to hear about your proceedings..hope u are enjoying too.. missing u as ever..take care..

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  7. StanJune 4, 2009 at 10:48 AM

    amazing photo. but i don't see trees anywhere. where does everyone hang the food so the bears won't get to it? :)

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  8. strongcofiJune 5, 2009 at 9:37 AM

    amazing photo. wish i was there :-( keep going guys...

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