At Base Camp!

The team drove up to Talkeetna this morning and flew to Base Camp on the Southeast Fork of the Kahiltna Glacier.

We drove from Anchorage up to the growing and somewhat famous town of Wasilla, Alaska where we stopped for some food, coffee and tried our best to see Russia, as our former Vice Presidential candidate Sara Palin claims to be able to do. In her defense, it was a bit cloudy...

We continued up the road another hour or so to the quiet little town of Talkeetna, located, truly, at the end of the road. The team registered with the National Park Service and was treated to a nice orientation by Climbing Ranger Mike Shane. They then headed over to the airstrip where our friends at Talkeetna Air Taxi loaded all their equipment into two big, beautiful, ski-equipped Otter aircraft and taxied down the runway and took off for Base Camp.

Today was pretty busy with lots of equipment to be weighed and heaps of gear to move from one place to another, and another and another.

I'll post some pictures of the day in a subsequent dispatch.