At Camp 2

The team climbed up from 7,800' (2380 m) and off the Kahiltna Glacier into a stunningly beautiful basin and the site of our Camp 2. Located at 11,200' (3413 m), this camp is ringed by huge ice cliffs and seracs to the south and southeast, a moderately steep snow slope called Motorcycle Hill to the east, rock and ice slopes to the north and the view opens up as you gaze off to the west. The views in the evening are sublime, as the sun passes low across the northern horizon and paints the peaks to the west and southwest in orange and pink hues of alpenglow.

They found good traveling weather yesterday. It was actually quite chilly for this time of year, which froze the trail up nice and hard, making for relatively easy travel.

Today the team will descend down to the cache of food, fuel and supplies that they left at 10,000' the day before yesterday. It only takes about 20 minutes to descend to the cache site, and another hour or so to climb back to camp, so today is effectively an active rest day. Tomorrow they will climb up Motorcycle Hill and continue up and around Windy Corner to make a cache just below Camp 3, at 13,500' (4115 m).