Get 'er Done - Day 3, Sunday, June 21st - BIG DAY!
Spoke w/
Todd via. satellite phone - 7PM
Denver - 5PM Alaska / Denali Time..........
The GED team [ Dave, Todd & Fred] had
a HUGE DAY today [you can see the movement & satellite image of
the route via SPOT on the GED website] moving gear
from Camp I at 7,800 ft. all the way to Camp II at 11,000 ft. at the
base of Motorcycle Hill - 3,200 ft. in aprx 5 hrs. and then returned
to Camp I. That's HUGE folks and will eliminate at least a half days
travel when they do move up to Camp II not having to retrieve a cache at a
lower elevation. The other event in route to 11,000 was establishing a
cache at 9,500 ft. of several days food. I am unclear at this time of the sequence of events or when
the team got the information but.... the
National Park Service has told the
team it may not have to return all the way to Base Camp at
7,200 ft. but instead be picked up at between 9,000 and 10,000 ft. for their return to
Talkeetna?
The
plan for today - Day 4, Monday, June 22 is to sleep-in and then move up
with the remaining gear to Camp II - 11,000 ft. at the base
of Motorcycle Hill. The weather remains heavily overcast with
some whiteout conditions [there have been some route finding
issues] and cold. Because of poor satellite phone communication is
this part of the mountain I don't expect to hear from the team for the
next couple of days. **More information & updates as I
receive them. VEB...........
