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Posted by: Mike King, JT Schmitt, Ben Ammon
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mt. McKinley
Elevation: 14,000'
On The Map
RMI Guide Chase Nelson calls from the summit of Ixtaccihuatl.
On The Map
Would love to see a picture of the team!! Be safe everyone.
Posted by: Dale on 2/21/2018 at 6:32 pm
RMI Guide Christina Dale calls in from Ixtaccihuatl's high camp.
Posted by: Dave Hahn, Steve Gately, JM Gorum
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mt. McKinley
Elevation: 11,200'
doing a great job HAHN team, pulling for all of you. glad you reached 14,000. I want to say Hello to my grandson Jm
Posted by: Floyd Tirey on 7/7/2015 at 10:51 am
Finally I am learning to use this computer. We are praying every inch of the way for you and your team mates and guide. Remember the story, Foot Prints in the Sand. Well, It’s Foot Prints in the Snow, for each one of you. We are sending our hugs and lots of love to you, our son, GLR.
Posted by: Dad & Mom Ross on 7/2/2015 at 2:47 pm
Posted by: Billy Nugent, Mike King, Sean Collon
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mt. McKinley
Elevation: 7,300'
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On The Map
Art, let me know if you want me to post any favorite passages from Ulysses for your amusement on your climb.
Posted by: Bob Ryan on 6/19/2015 at 11:29 am
Hey Kevin! How how is the food situation going? We hope you haven’t had to dump any of it yet haha!
Posted by: Angela and Carmen on 6/19/2015 at 11:09 am
Posted by: Seth Waterfall, Sid Pattison
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mount Rainier
Elevation: 14,410'
CONGRADULATIONS. ALL!!! Keith your training paid off!!! Can’t wait to hear the details.
Posted by: Bill Thomas on 6/11/2015 at 11:39 am
Congratulations, Everyone. Keith Miller . . . I’m sure you were there on the top doing the happy dance. I hope so. I made it to the top of Rainier in 2010 with Set and Solveig—you were in good hands my friend. Wished I had been there with you.
Posted by: Josephine Johnson on 6/11/2015 at 11:23 am
Hello to all our friends and family at home!
I’m happy to report we ALL made it to Argentina and with our gear (some bags took a little longer than others to arrive but they’re all here now!)
We’ve spent the last two days in Mendoza getting to know each other, checking gear, packing, repacking, learning about what the next few weeks will look like and enjoying as much of the Mendoza-life as possible. We are headed to bed with duffels ready, full stomachs of delicious Argentinian cuisine, and a lot of excitement to finally hit the trail tomorrow.
It’s going to be an incredible adventure and after so much time planning and preparing, we can’t wait for it to begin.
RMI Guides Jess Wedel, Jack Delaney and the Aconcagua climbing team
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Posted by: Pete Van Deventer, Jackson Breen
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mt. McKinley
Elevation: 9,400'
Saturday, May 11, 2024
We got most of our food and fuel pushed all the way to 11 today. We went into the day with a plan to carry as high as we could and made sense. It's been quite snowy on the Kahiltna below Kahiltna Pass. We were in the sun in the morning but it looked socked in above, so we dragged our feet a bit. We didn't see much evidence of wind, and a could of teams headed up, so with some trail breaking ahead of us, we decided to go. As expected, the light turned flat pretty quickly. But we were moving along well. We caught the last team in front of us around 9,700', and trail breaking became our job. We had a chilly breeze coming from behind, and we thought we might just lose it and get some better visability around the corner towards 11,000'. That worked, and then we were only 20 minutes from camp, so why not go the distance! It was a proud effort from the team. We dropped our loads, stowed sleds on packs, and with minimal weight on us for the first time on the trip, stretched our legs out on the descent. It had snowed yet more below, so we broke trail back downhill again, but made easy work of that. It was pretty pleasant and surreal, with snowflakes filtering silently down around us, and the snow on the ground absorbing every sound, we moved through a silent, empty landscape, the sound of our own passage swallowed up. It was a long day capped with a restorative bowl of ramen and then off to sleep.
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VERY Beautiful, thank you for sharing. Safe travels
Posted by: Brenda on 10/30/2018 at 4:08 pm
Everyone looking great! Scenery looks awesome. Enjoy!
“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”
― John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra
Posted by: Beverly on 10/30/2018 at 5:58 am
Diana King here, Mike’s Mom. We to enjoy keeping up wit the Team from Atlanta. Wish he could get home more often.
Posted by: Diana King on 6/15/2018 at 2:09 pm
Robb-o!!
Sending some positive weather vibes your way!! Hope you, Cole and the rest of the team are having an awesome adventure!!
XOXOXO
Sharoni
Posted by: Sharon Del Vecchio on 6/14/2018 at 5:17 pm
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