Alaska Seminar: Team Explores Area near Radio Tower & Mt. Frances
Posted by: Leon Davis, Mike King, Jessie Poquerusse
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Alaska Seminar
May 21, 2017
After a brisk wake up, we stretched our legs by heading up glacier to the base of Radio Tower, east of camp. Threatening seracs and a maze of crevasses thwarted our progress further towards Radio Tower, so after a brief lesson on glaciology and safe glacier navigation, we quickly adapted our itinerary to the conditions and headed to the base of the northeast ridge of Mt. Frances instead. A thinly veiled sun and intermittent clouds provided an eerie ambience to our travel. Once at the basin, we donned crampons and practiced up and downhill climbing and cramponing techniques, a helpful review. A well-deserved downhill walk back to camp and a long-sought after dinner wrapped up another excellent day out in the hills with a most energetic and engaged team.
RMI Guide Jessie & the AMS-E crew
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Comments (3)
Patty,
Your adventure at the top of the world looks awesome! The pictures are incredible. You and Sally sure found snow! Enjoy every moment! Missing you very much but am really happy for you! I look forward to reading the updates every day. Your spirit for adventure is inspiring. I love you!
John
Best wishes for safe travels to all of the team on your Alaskan journey!
Posted by: John Kudla on
Truly amazing. I cannot wait to hear ALL of th Epic Adventures that come out of this trip! It will take many miles of running to cover everything and I am looking forward to every sentence and every mile! Be safe about everything! Hugs and love to all xoxoxo regina, the “other” bffmg
Posted by: Regina on
Wow!! What an amazing group of people!! Glad to hear you took a different route for safety purposes, eases my mind a bit.
Praying for all of you to have an exciting seminar and return safely.
P. S. I am Aracely’s (sally) sister
Posted by: Amelia on