I just received a call from Bill Allen, who is also trying to fly in to base camp, and he says the weather in Talkeetna is beautiful and that the team is about to fly into the Southeast Fork of the Kahiltna Glacier.
The crew drove up to Talkeetna yesterday and checked in with the National Park Service. They hoped to fly to the glacier, but the weather had other plans. They had an enjoyable evening in Talkeetna, and Heidi called to say that everyone was in great spirits, and not frustrated in the least by the delay. Noone really wants their pilots to push the weather envelope, no do they?
Today they will arrive at basecamp, located at 7,200 feet (2500 m) and set up a basic camp, so they can get some sleep this evening. Much of today will be busy rigging sleds for travel up the glacier and with reviewing crevasse rescue techniques. The lower Kahiltna is quite broken with crevasses these days, so the team will travel during the wee hours of the morning, just before sunrise, when the glacier is (hopefully) most frozen.
Tomorrow should have them established in camp at Camp 1, located at 7,800 ft (2830 m).
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Mirek,
ReplyDelete95 degrees, no crevasses in sight but I am quite sure that you are having much more fun there than me here ……………you can bet that next time I will be freezing my ... right there with you BB :)
Mirek
ReplyDeletestill 95 degrees and I wish for crevasses! Remember putting life in danger is actually living, the rest is just television...
Love you
Grasia
Dear Stina
ReplyDeleteNow you have come so far. Good news. Enjoy the trip very much and with the team. And be safe. We think very very much of you from Michigan, where we are know.
Love
Dad and Mum