Mt. McKinley: Great Day Caching Gear for Haugen’s Team
We woke up early to beautiful skies. Even though the sun never set, it was low enough to cast an orange glow on the large moon that hung over the Kahiltna Glacier. A five o'clock departure ensured solid glacier travel as we headed up to 10,100' to cache some of our gear. We plan to reunite with this gear when we do a ''back carry'' after we establish a camp at 11,000'. After 6 hours of climbing up to our cache and then back down to 7,800' camp, we spent the rest of the day resting and hydrating. We enjoyed some great conversation over Elias' amazing mountain quesadillas before heading to bed.
Happy Father's Day to all of our dads!
RMI Guide Mike Haugen
P.S. Mrs. Chu, Patrick aced his finals! We are so proud!
Comments (4)
Hi everybody I am Elias´s brother, I am writting from Spain.I just would like to said Good luck to all of you! And please be carefull, there are a lot of danger at every step!
enjoy!
Posted by: JORGE DE ANDRES on
Happy Father’s Day to you all! I’m SO sorry I missed your call, I would have loved to hear the sound of your voice live (the message was nice though). We are all missing you and sending you lots of love. love, best daughter (hehe, the whole team is going to think your family is crazy!)
Posted by: Yashu on
Hi ashok and K:
Hope u guys are enjoying the salmon jerky. Can u imagine it snowed in slc above 10000 ft and rained whole day. Keep in touch always nice to hear your voice. Fathers day is not the same without u.
Luv best wife
Posted by: Uma on
I’m thrilled to be the first to leave a comment on this team’s blog. I have to say, though, that I’m a bit jealous that ElÃas cooks amazing quesadillas for all of you and not for me!
Good luck to the whole team.
Bridget
Posted by: Bridget Schletty on