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We thought yesterday was rough? Today was gnar. Besides the 300 mosquito bites, our permit got revoked. We casually went to the ranger station for our climber orientation, and wham! They laid it on us. After a long discussion with the ranger, we quickly went to set things right. I had to arrange for 4 outside resources to send letters saying that Damian is my climbing partner, not my guide. So 6 hours later, we got accepted, and had our orientation. I was afraid for a bit that we would have to hi-jack a plane and fly in ourselves! But at 7pm, we flew in a teeny fixed wing plane onto the Kahiltna glacier, base camp. From the plane we could see everything, the flat landscape building up into the magnificent Alaska range of pointed, jagged granite and ice peaks. We landed right on the glacier, he flew off, and we started repacking. We had to repack all our gear into move-able sleds to get a mile downhill from the landing snow to the base camp area. With sunlight still glowing in the skies, we hit the sack at about midnight.
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