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50 Knot Winds
Saturday, June 19, 1999 — 6:01pm (PST)
 Tejas | |
Hello Mountain Zone, this is Vernon Tejas at 14,200 feet on Mount Denali, leading a trip for Alpine Ascents International. We have two other teams on the mountain as well: Jim Williams has a group at 17,200 feet and they're in a holding pattern. Today there were 50 knot winds up on the summit. They tried for it anyway. They went up to Denali Pass, 18,200, and were turned back by those high winds.
Scott Darsney's group, which is down at 11,200' is carrying a cache up today. They're going to leave the food and fuel at 13,500 feet so they can retrieve it after they move up to the same camp I'm at, at 14.2 in the Genet Basin of Mount Denali.
Well, what did we do today? Well, we had lots of fun. Clouds have blowing in and out and we also needed to move our food up to 16,200 feet and it is now safely ensconced, buried, so the ravens do not get to it, under three feet of snow up at 16.2. Tomorrow the plan is to head up there, however, we may just wait for the winds to die down. What are you doing right now?
We've got reported weather here, it's supposed to be bad for another two or three days, we have nine days of food at this point so we're able to hang out and acclimatize and wait for the weather. Bye.
— Alpine Ascents Guide Vern Tejas, MountainZone.com Correspondent
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