Sunday, May 16, 2004
Tim called from Alaska...
He is back in Anchorage. He said that after 3 days of waiting out bad weather one guy took off for home but Tim decided to stay just one more day and they finally got out there - 2 guides and 4 clients. Although Tim signed up under the understanding that he could use snowshoes he was forced to use skis which he has no experience with. The motion of the skis with his boots created one giant blister on the first day which was a bit of a problem. They spent 4 days and 3 nights on the glacier and he learned a lot of stuff. The conditions of the snow was really bad he said and there were times when he was trying to climb some peaks but he got into snow up to his waist and decided it was stupid and that he didn't need to climb up some dumb unnamed nob. He heard that no one had summitted Denali yet and he said he would never try now that he has seen the weather. He said the peak would be completely clear one minute with no clouds in site and 10 minutes later you couldn't see the peak. He also siad he had lots of trouble sleeping (a problem hs has had in the past) and got very little the whole time he was on the glacier - including no sleep the first night. He hopes to remember some of the stuff he learned before heading to Peru in August to climb a couple of peaks.
He is back in Anchorage. He said that after 3 days of waiting out bad weather one guy took off for home but Tim decided to stay just one more day and they finally got out there - 2 guides and 4 clients. Although Tim signed up under the understanding that he could use snowshoes he was forced to use skis which he has no experience with. The motion of the skis with his boots created one giant blister on the first day which was a bit of a problem. They spent 4 days and 3 nights on the glacier and he learned a lot of stuff. The conditions of the snow was really bad he said and there were times when he was trying to climb some peaks but he got into snow up to his waist and decided it was stupid and that he didn't need to climb up some dumb unnamed nob. He heard that no one had summitted Denali yet and he said he would never try now that he has seen the weather. He said the peak would be completely clear one minute with no clouds in site and 10 minutes later you couldn't see the peak. He also siad he had lots of trouble sleeping (a problem hs has had in the past) and got very little the whole time he was on the glacier - including no sleep the first night. He hopes to remember some of the stuff he learned before heading to Peru in August to climb a couple of peaks.
