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Team 1: 7,800 Camp - Tuesday, May 14, 2002
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Hello MountainZone in cyberland listeners, this is Eric Remza of Alpine Ascents with Upward Dog and we are on the 14th, Tuesday. We are experiencing a very nice high pressure up here on the upper Kahiltna Glacier and it has been great weather.

First a quick message from Kurt, 'Hello to Arlo, Mom and Dad.' Arlo being Kurt's dog.

I'll give you a quick recap of the events since we landed on the glacier on the 11th. We spent that day just kind of getting our camp all set up, getting squared away with camping on the glacier and camping on the snow. The next day, the 12th, we did a very good skills practice. We did that on up on, on a part of the glacier, on the southeast fork of the Kahiltna, practicing crevasse rescue and just getting everyone on the same page. Then the 13th, that was yesterday we did a single-carry move from our Base Camp at 7,200 feet on the southeast fork of Kahiltna to 7,800 feet on the upper Kahiltna Glacier.

It was a little bit heavy sleds and heavy packs, but getting out of Base Camp and the noise of the flying-in planes made it all the best just to get out of there.

"So today we are doing a half carry, which is we're going up to around 10,500 feet, we're going to put in a cache which means we're going to dig a hole into the snow and bury all the stuff we're not going to need..."
Yesterday we did experience a little bit of wind in the evening and we saw some clouds kind of moving in, but this morning, the 14th, it was beautiful; bluebird skies and not even a breeze.

So today we are doing a half carry, which is we're going up to around 10,500 feet, we're going to put in a cache which means we're going to dig a hole into the snow and bury all the stuff we're not going to need to spend a night down at our 7,800-foot camp below. So the whole idea is to climb high and to sleep low.

We will give you another update tomorrow as we do a move, a full move up to camp 11,000 and that is it for now and we will talk to you soon. Bye.

Eric Remza, Alpine Ascents International Guide and MountainZone.com Correspondent