Denali Expedition: Jones & Team Resting at 14,000’ Camp
Posted by: Tyler Jones, Blake Votilla, Caleb Ladue
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mt. McKinley
Elevation: 14,200'
June 6, 2016 - 7:01 pm PT
Today we woke to another gray cold morning! And we're well rested now after another 24 hours at 14 Camp. The forecast has been fickle but we forge on with a few laps around camp for the guys. There was a lot of packing, drying, and fidgeting with our equipment. We're preparing for a summit push . The team is excited and well prepared. With some weather on our side we will try to move to high camp at 17,200'! Now we eat, drink and sleep. Will be in touch tomorrow.
RMI Guide Tyler Jones
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Psalm 121 -A Song of Ascents-
“I will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence comes my help. My help comes from the Lord . Who made heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to be moved. “
The team remains in our thoughts and prayers. We know you are looking at the top of the “high one”.
Waiting patiently as you have in the cold and snow will make your ascent even more glorious.
Everyone is excited about your return!
“Success is the sum of small efforts day in and day out” Robert Collier
Love,
Mom and Dad
Posted by: Carter Adams on
“In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form.
Climbing for life as it reaches towards the consciousness, towards the spirit. We have always
honored the high places because we sense them to be the homes of gods. In the mountains there
is the promise of ..... something unexplainable. A higher place of awareness, a spirit that soars.
So we climb… and in climbing there is more than a metaphor; there is a means of discovery.”
—- anonymous
Thinking of you Blake….. I’m so excited for you !!!
Love, Mom
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