MountainZone.com Home

MountainZone.com Home






New Digs at 11,000 Feet
Team 1: 11,000-Foot Camp - Thursday, May 16, 2002
» Back to DISPATCHES

remza
Remza
listen to audioHear Eric's Call
LISTEN: [RealPlayer] [Windows Media]

(Requires a FREE media player to listen)
DISPATCHES
previousnext

A Season in Denali 2002 Photo
Above Windy Corner
Photo Gallery
Hello Mountain Zone and people in cyberland, this is Eric Remza of Alpine Ascents International and Upward Dog.

We are fully moved in to our 11,000-foot camp and just did a back carry down to 10.3 where we put that cache in a few days back. We had a nice speedy and efficient descent down to our cache, dug it up, repacked our sleds and we'll be heading back up to 11,000 camp today.

So things are going good, we had a little bit of weather move in last night, but a little bit of fresh snow fell, really light, fluffy, champagne powder snow. But, it was... we were above the clouds. But now down by our cache, which is just below Kahiltna Pass, there is some weather still moving in.

"Tomorrow the plan is, if everyone is feeling good, and everyone is, by the way, feeling very strong and doing really well, we will be heading up to just past Windy Corner...."

Plenty of teams on the mountain and we will be heading back up to 11,000-foot camp. Tomorrow the plan is, if everyone is feeling good, and everyone is, by the way, feeling very strong and doing really well, we will be heading up to just past Windy Corner to put a cache in up there and then we'll be coming back down to 11,000-foot camp as well.

We'll see if we'll be able to get a cell connection up there. If not, we won't be talking to you until we actually move up to 14 so I'll keep you posted about that.

Take care and oh yeah, and Derek would like to wish all his loved ones and friends good wishes and that he is thinking about them.

Take care and this is the Upward Dogs signing out. Bye.

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