Get 'er Done - Day 5 - Tuesday, June 23rd - Cache at 13,200.

No satellite phone calls today - however, from SPOT [which is a great tool] this is what the team did today:

 

Day 5, Tuesday, June 23rd carried to 13,200 ft Windy Corner aprx 1.5 mi. and established a cache - got a SPOT from Todd at 4:11PM - Alaska time and another SPOT when they arrived back at Camp II, 11,000 ft at 5:40PM - Alaska time. A cache will also be established at the 11,000 ft. camp for snowshoes, a small food cache and any gear not needed on the upper mountain.  Climbing from here up will continue be roped but wearing crampons & ice axe.  Most of the elevation gain on the way to Windy Corner is immediately out of Camp II - up both Motorcycle Hill and then Squirrel Point and then a steep rise to the plateau just before Windy Corner.  If the weather clears at all the views from the top of Motorcycle Hill and higher are spectacular.  

 

Today - Day 6, Wednesday, June 24th - not sure what the team will do today?  They could move all the way to Camp III at 14,200 ft. - this large plateau - Gannett Basin - serves as Advance Base Camp for West Buttress Climbers.

**More information & updates as I receive them.  VEB...........

 

 

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