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Posted by: Adam Knoff, Pete Van Deventer
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mount Rainier
Elevation: 14,410'
Posted by: Nikki Champion, Leif Bergstrom
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mt. McKinley
Elevation: 7,800'
Saturday, May 18, 2024 - 10:11 pm PT
Another solid day in the books. We woke up to clear skies, and cold temperatures. After a later dinner yesterday, we opted for a Slightly more casual start time. After a quick breakfast of granola and blueberries we packed up about 2/3rds of our group food, fuel, gear, and personal food and started up Ski Hill. After many hours of climbing we ran into Dustin's team digging up their cache around 9,900', and decided that would be a good place to put ours. We unloaded all the gear and food we wouldn't need for the next few days, buried it, and marked it with some wands. Then strapped our now empty sleds to our back and made our way back to the base of Ski Hill. We finished the evening up with the weather and some beef burritos. The plan is to move to 11 camp tomorrow if weather allows. Everyone is doing great on this first few challenging days. Check in tomorrow!
RMI Guide Nikki Champion
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Good job on the first part. Sounds challenging. We’re hoping the weather cooperates and things go smoothly for the team. We love you Pops!
Posted by: Noel, Xander, and Nora on 5/21/2024 at 11:30 am
Sounds like a strong start! We are rooting for you and the team! Sending lots of strength & love!
Posted by: Kelly Jeremy on 5/19/2024 at 2:44 pm
Posted by: Hannah Smith, Avery Parrinello
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Aconcagua
Elevation: 18,000'
Who wants some pancakes? To celebrate our last rest day before moving to High Camp and trying for the summit, we enjoyed a pancake breakfast. Pancakes at 18,000' topped with jelly and peanut butter make the tummy happy. With a happy tummy, we took it upon ourselves to then enjoy a siesta. By mid day, a few teams showed up carrying gear from Camp 1. It was nice to socialize with some new faces and break up our rest day. This will be our last rest day because starting tomorrow we will be on the go for the next 5 days. All the resting, self care, and acclimatization the past 12 days were for these next 2 days. Tomorrow we will move to high camp, followed by our summit bid. You can feel the excitment and nerves in the team for what is to come. We are ready and we are looking strong. Fingers crossed mother nature doesnt throw us any curve balls.
Be good to us mother nature,
RMI Guide Hannah Smith and Team
Good luck Sue…Wishing you and your team a safe and successful climb!
-Mychal (Mexico clim teammate)
Posted by: Mychal Wooldridge on 1/20/2020 at 1:15 pm
Wow! Really a testament to your preparation & believing you can do it! We are all thinking of the whole team!
Mom & Dad, Anna, Heather,
Tinker & Beans!
Posted by: Judy & Dale Collins on 1/20/2020 at 7:12 am
Posted by: Mike Haugen, Hannah McGowan, Gloria Roe
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mt. McKinley
Elevation: 7,200'
On The Map
Looks like beautiful weather! Wishing you all a safe and amazing climb, especially you Craig Clark!
Posted by: Carol clark on 6/14/2018 at 8:29 am
Hello Mike, I’m looking forward to following this team up to the summit and back. It was a pleasure climbing with Rusty, Josh and David on Mt Rainier in 2015. I know that they are in good hands on this trip.
Posted by: David Clemmons on 6/14/2018 at 5:15 am
Posted by: Casey Grom, Christina Dale
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Everest BC Trek
Elevation: 16,950'
On The Map
Riley and Eryn, congratulations on making the trek to base camp. We are following your progress with the lovely commentary from your guides (a few misspellings are in order at 16,000 feet) and we love the pictures. We were so disappointed our fear of weird phone numbers caused us not to answer your call tonight our time. We love you and we are glad you are safe. Stay that way—safe—and we hope your trek continues to be as great back down. Love from us.
Posted by: Hal and Ann on 3/27/2017 at 9:08 pm
RMI Guide Eric Frank calls in from the Mount Shuksan summit.
Posted by: Zeb Blais, Robby Young
Categories: Expedition Dispatches North Cascades
Elevation: 8,680'
Posted by: Leon Davis, Bridget Belliveau
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mt. McKinley
Posted by: Dave Hahn, Sam Hoffman, Calvin Jiricko, Bailey Servais
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mt. McKinley
Elevation: 8,000'
Thursday, June 19, 2025 9:36pm PDT
We were up and at ’em at 3 a.m., trying to beat the heat. This had us moving up the glacier from our 8,000 ft camp by 5 a.m. First up was Ski Hill—a steeper and longer incline than anything we’ve tackled so far. It was tough, but conditions were excellent after a solid overnight freeze.
It took about four hours to reach our goal: the head of the Kahiltna Glacier at 10,000 feet. There, we dug a deep, raven-proof hole in the snow and cached food and fuel.
The descent was pleasant, with lighter loads and easy walking. The team rolled back into camp at 11:30 a.m. and sheltered in the tents to escape the afternoon sun.
Tomorrow, we’ll move past the cache and camp at 11,000 feet.
RMI Guide Sam Hoffman & Team
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Go Team! That’s incredible.
Posted by: Pamela Banker on 6/21/2025 at 4:04 pm
Great work team!!! Enjoy!
Posted by: Heather on 6/21/2025 at 11:09 am
That’s brilliant! Cameron, Connor, John and Patrick… Congratulations!! What an adventure. I can’t wait to hear the amazing tale.
Posted by: Debbie on 7/1/2015 at 4:39 pm
Congrats, Chuck and all the climbers!
Posted by: Ross on 7/1/2015 at 4:09 pm
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