1-14-2010

Just a move camp today. A really long move camp. The trail just keeps on going. You look at an ice chunk, and figure it will take about 10 minutes to reach, and 30 minutes later you still aren’t there. Quite deceiving. After we arrived in camp, we were rewarded with awesome views. Sawtooth ridges give perceptions in front of huge striated alpine walls, everything checker boarded with snow. The high camp is pretty much right above our low camp position. About 1 mile straight up. So tomorrow we will climb the around to a ridge, then up a huge amount of vertical fixed ropes, and then follow the ridge to camp. Everyone did well today, worked well in the heat. We ate our last non-freeze dried meal, which everyone appreciated. Going to bed, the sun is high over head, and it is midnight.